NOVXMBEB 5, 1908. 



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Indian Picked Bouquet 

 Green Is Good Green. 



Huntins season Is on Nov. 10. 



Snow storms don't wait for 

 anyl>ody. 



Early ord/ers mean certain de- 

 livery. 



$5.00 F.O.B. shipping point in 



the woods. 



^mas Greens 

 XXX Hoi 

 Bouquet Qreen 

 Wreathing 



Mistletoe 

 Holly Wreaths 



Novelties 



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H. E. Asplin, Rocky Eiv«r; Geo. F. Har- 

 tung, Saadusky; L.. B. Pierce, Tall- 

 madge; L. C. Bowen, Toledo; E. Inglis, 

 Youngstown ; Isaac Kennedy, West Park ; 

 W. J. Green, J. H. Gourley, Ohio Experi- 

 mental Station; B. H. Thome, M, S. Yo- 

 der, Wooster; J. L. Foote, C. J. Wu- 

 trick, C. H. Foote, O. B. Hinckley, M. 

 L. Euetenik, T. W. Mobl, F. J. Wutrick, 

 August Cook, S. B. Chester, W. E. lUsh, 

 H. H. Bichardson, Cleveland. 



Material Men on Deck. 



These material and supply men were 

 present: C. W. Skinner, Irrigationist, 

 Troy, O. ; B. B. McFarland, Pond Lum- 

 ber Co., Conneaut, O.; C. M. Poe, Cleve- 

 land Window Glass Co., Cleveland, O.; 

 H. G. Balz, Livingston Seed Co., Colum- 

 bus, O.; A. L. Stowell, American Badiat- 

 or Co., Cleveland, O.; P. J. Foley, of 

 Foley Mfg. Co., Chicago; N. J. Rupp, 

 of John C. Moninger Co., Chicago; L. 

 B. Craw, of Lord & Burnham Co., New 

 York ; J. D. Heinz, of Defiance Lantern 

 and Stamping Co., Rochester, N. Y.; F. 

 Lautenschlager, Kroeschell Bros. Co., 

 Chicago, HI, 



A party of ten or twelve growers vis- 

 ited the Ashtabula greenhouses Sunday, 

 November 1. 



VARIETIES OF LETTUCE, 



[A paper by L. C. Corbett, of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 read at the meeting of greenhouse vegetable 

 growers In Cleveland, October 31, 1908.] 



The lettuce work of the Department 



of Agriculture may be discussed under 



three distinct topics: First, "Varietal 



Studies," which were conducted over a 



period of several years and summarized 



in a publication from the Bureau of 



Plant Industry in Bulletin No. 69; sec- 

 ond, under the subject of "Breeding 

 Work," which is now under way; and, 

 third, "The Influence of Fertilizers," 

 work which is alsQ still uiidet way. . 



In lettuce, as with most other garden 

 crops, we find too many sorts, or at least 

 too many varietal names. In our lettuce 

 studies, conducted by Mr. Tracy, it was 

 necessary to handle something over 300 

 so-called varieties which were offered by 

 the American trade, in order to determine 

 the types and sorts actually in existence. 

 Our studies revealed that these trade 

 names were used to apply to about 100 

 distinct sorts, which could be classed 

 under three types; namely, Cos; leaf, 

 cutting or bunch; and head lettuces. In 

 such a list as this, one would naturally 

 expect to find everything necessary to 

 meet the requirements of frame, forcing- 

 house and field cultivation, and I believe 

 that if we were t6 make careful investi- 

 gations we would, in this great array of 

 varieties, find sorts which would be espe- 

 cially adapted to the needs of each of 

 the three lines of commercial cultivation 

 above spoken of. 



Keeping Varieties Pure. 



It would seem, therefore, that there is 

 little opportunity for developing new 

 sorts and little need for such effort. In 

 lettuce, as with- most of our garden 

 plants, it is not so much a matter of 

 new sorts at the present time as it is 

 to keep the strains which are of decided 

 commercial value pure and true to type. 

 This work in the case of lettuce, how- 

 ever, is much more simple and easy than 

 with many other garden plants. In the 

 case of lettuce the small size of the 

 flowers, their peculiar, method of devel- 



opment, and the short time the stigmas 

 are exposed render it quite certain that 

 this plant is, in general, close fertilized^ 

 Insects play little or no part in th^ 

 pollination of the plants, and, therefore, 

 cause very little difSculty from natural 

 hybridization. In other words, it is likely 

 that it would be safe to grow different 

 varieties of lettuce for seed purposes -im 

 the same general locality, and perhaps in 

 the same field, without danger of detri- 

 mental crossing. For the sa^e of safety, 

 however, as we are not quite positive on 

 this point, it will be better to confine 

 different sorts to somewhat restricted 

 areas, so that the danger of hybridiza- 

 tion and crossing will be entirely over- 

 come. 



When once crossed, however, lettuce is 

 a plant which retains its admixture very 

 firmly, and is liable to cry back or revert 

 to either of its ancestral parents aftelr 

 very careful selection has been carried 

 on for many generations. The question, 

 then, of the breeding of lettuce true to 

 type is an important one and should be 

 carefully guarded by seed growers. 



The extensive variety trials which have 

 been conducted by the Department have 

 been for the purpose of straightening out 

 the nomenclature of the group rather 

 than determining the fitness of a variety 

 for any particular purpose. As our trials 

 have been chiefly conducted in the open, 

 it stands to reason that it would be 

 impossible to determine from such trials 

 the fitness of different sorts for green- 

 house purposes or for frame cultivation. 



Head and Leaf Letttice. 



The demands of the market for par- 

 (Continuedbn page 36) 



