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TheWeckly Rorists' Review. 



July 29, 1909. 



Johosoo's Kiosiy Prize Winner Pansies 



BETTER THAN EVER 

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Careful selection of the World's Pansy Speolallsts has made ttili inoomparable strain famous, (or 

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Other experiments included the grow- 

 ing of fruit trees, as peaches, pears, 

 plums, that observations might be had 

 upon action in the open air and under- 

 ground depredations of insects; experi- 

 ments as to the desirability of diflPerent 

 species of willows for basket work; in- 

 vestigations as to prevention of injury 

 by underground and overground insects 

 to the cranberry plant; experiments in 

 the gfowth of medicinal herbs and the 

 habits of the plants — all very interesting. 

 But the thought was constantly occur- 

 ring, "Why is all this done on a soil 

 fit only for a brick-yard, when the De- 

 partment could have gone out into Mary- 

 land and found thousands of desirable 

 farms?" 



Has Someone Blttndered ? 



On the Maryland side the government 

 could have procured hundreds of admir- 

 able locations within the limit of the ex- 

 tensive range of the so-called "sassafras 

 loams," a sedimentary deposit of an 

 early age; soils with a depth of ten 

 inches of soft, brown loam, resting on 

 a heavy reddish-yellow loam two or 

 three feet in thickness, which in turn 

 rests on gravel, all with satisfactory 

 drainage; such soils as have proved ad- 

 mirably adapted for the growth of all 

 sorts of vegetables and fruits. Other 

 good soils available are those of the so- 

 called Norfolk and Portsmouth deposits, 

 but not circumscribed to those particular 

 localities. 



Many of the experiments at Arlington 

 are repeated under some sort of a work- 

 ing agreement at the Virginia State 

 Truck Experimental Station at Norfolk, 

 the Virginia Agricultural Station at 

 Blacksburg, and the Maryland Agricul- 

 tural Station at College Park, all of 

 which is an excellent plan, yet the tests 

 at the national station should be made 

 under the best conditions, as regards 

 soil and field exposures, so as to be al- 

 most incontrovertible in all respects, ex- 

 cept as influenced by local climatic con- 

 ditions. 



No citizen should hesitate to criticise 

 an apparent misapplication of public 

 money, and almost a waste of valuable 

 technical services by scientific men in 

 charge. In selecting this location some- 

 one has blundered, grievously blundered, 

 and before much more government cash 

 and time of scientific workers are spent, 

 there should be a quick removal to a bet- 

 ter chosen location. 



Those Free Seeds. 



I have visited many agricultural ex- 

 perimental stations at home and abroad, 

 and on them I have seen lands under 

 processes of improvement, but never any 

 land so bad to commence with as that of 

 the Arlington farm; yet it is just on a 

 par with much else in connection with 

 the Seed Section of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, a section in that bureau which 

 has for many years been a stumbling 



Rawson's Sweet Peas 



were awarded 14 prizes at the Exhibition of the National 

 Sweet Pea Society of America in 1909. We lolicit 

 correspondence upon the newer introductions and put our 

 knowledge at the disposal of every florist in America. 



W. W. RAWSON S CO., Seedsmen 



6 UNION ST., BOSTON, MASS. 



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Lilium Harrisii 



DUE THIS WEEK 



5/7 in., per 100, $5.00; per 1000, $45.00 7/9 in., per 100, $9.50; per 1000, $90.00 



Paper Whites, Romans and Freesias 



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Milwaukee, Wis. 



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Jos. H. Barnett & Co. 



334 Dearborn St., CHICAQO 



HAir TONE ENGRAVERS, ZINC ETCHERS, 

 ELEQROTYPERS 



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LILIES 



Lilium Tenuifolium, Lilium Wallacei, Single 

 and Double Tigers, named Elegans, German 

 Iris, Delphinium FormoBum. 



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Wading: River, Lonf^ Island, N. Y. 



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block to the proper elevation of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry in the mind 

 of the public, such a stumbling block as 

 drags not only that bureau but the whole 

 Department of Agriculture into ridicule, 

 for millions of American citizens are not 

 in touch with the problems of forestry, 

 animal industry, irrigation, drainage, 

 entomology, chemistry, soils, biological 

 investigations of plants and soils, and 

 many other important investigations and 

 promotions of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



The fact is, the mass of people meas- 

 ure the Department of Agriculture as a 



Bulbs 



Our price list for coming season 

 has been mailed. Should a copy 

 have failed to reach you, drop a 

 postal. It will pay you. 



Our TERCENTENARY strain of Pansy 

 cannot be surpassed. 



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NBWBUROH, N. Y. 



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firldKeman's Seed Warehouse 



Establlahed 1824. BICKABDS BBOS., Props 

 Importers and Krowers of high-grade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PUNTS, ETC. 



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Lilies of the Vallev 



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