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August 6, 1908. 



with questions of classification or of 

 valuation, and of these the most im- 

 portant branch is that of valuation for 

 assessment. By putting in specific duties 

 ■wherever possible, the question of classi- 

 fication would still be left, although that 

 could be simplified as compared with 

 what it is today. The question of valua- 

 tion .would almost entirely disappear. 

 With it would go a large part of the 

 work which now takes up the time of 

 the Board of General Appraisers and is 

 so unsatisfactorily performed, and along 

 with that the larger part of the present 

 •appeals to the courts in customs cases. 



QUALITY OF SEEDS. 



The influence of the character of the 

 seed on the crop that will be produced 

 from it is well known as a general fact. 

 But it is probable that more detailed at- 

 tention than, is often given to the mat- 

 ter would well repay the trouble entailed. 

 It is becoming better understood than 

 formerly that the early life of a plant 

 has an overwhelmingly important in- 

 fluence on its subsequent growth. Thus 

 it is a matter of common experience that 

 some plants rapidly improve, if grown 

 even for a few generations under spe- 

 cially favorable conditions. This is cer- 

 tainly to be attributed, in great part 

 at any rate, to the cumulatively favor- 

 able start in early life enjoyed by the 

 plants themselves. The environment 

 thus continues to influence the develop- 

 ment through several generations, and 

 in a cumulative fashion. This circum- 

 stance has given rise to a certain amount 

 of confusion as to the existence of in- 

 heritance of acquired characteristics. 

 Probably what has really occurred is 

 that the accumulated wealth of one gen- 

 eration serves to endow the seeds of 

 the next with more capital in the form of 

 food, and this will produce its effect 

 during the youthful and most important 

 period of growth in the seedling. This 

 view is supported by the ease with which 

 such improved races degenerate when fa- 

 vorable conditions are relaxed. Such 

 considerations, which are borne out by 

 facts, serve to emphasize the desirability 

 of more thoroughly studying the rela- 

 tions that exist between the various 

 properties of the seed and the quality 

 of the progeny that will arise from them. 

 The matter is not new, but the Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle thinks it is still worth 

 a caceful scientific investigation, and 

 the results certain to be of practical 

 value. 



MAMMOTH BUSH PEANUT. 



Willis D. Condron, of New Iberia, 

 La., has a new peanut which he calls 

 Mammoth Bush and which compares with 

 ordinary peanuts as do the big hickories 

 with the smaller varieties. Mr. Condron 

 supplies the following description and 

 account of its origin: 



"In the spring of 1898 I planted ten 

 kernels from five peanuts that were given 

 me by lady friends who had just re- 

 turned from Japan. I tried to class 

 them, but could not. 



"However, I planted them by the level 

 or bed method, on the spot where the 

 brick mason had prepared the mortar 

 for the pillars of my residence, thereby 

 learning one of their requisites — lime. 

 They came up in due time, growing 

 along nicely, and by the time mid-sea- 

 son was reached they had thrown out 

 laterals, twelve to twenty to one kernel 

 planted, and forty feet in length. 



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"That, of course, did not suit me, for 

 two good reasons: First, nuts would 

 not mature at a distance of more than 

 halfway to the end of the vine. Second, 

 too much ground covered for so little 

 gain. 



"It was then that science showed 

 itself. Hunting up other varieties, I 

 procured true seed of the Spanish type 

 for its bush form, using the Japan va- 

 riety as parent. I did not depend on 



chance pollenization, but went to work 

 transferring the pollen from one flower 

 to the other, protecting that other until 

 it dropped. 



"I continued thus for four seasons, 

 planting and replanting each hybrid un- 

 til I reached the fourth, which satisfied 

 me that that was established. It was 

 not exactly in true bush form, for the 

 laterals at a certain stage of growth 

 will drop down, sending out Spikes at 



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