April 27, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



41 



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part, being accompanied with snow- 

 storms and heavy floods, but hardly 

 covered the ground with us the whole 

 winter. 



"It is many years ago since we had 

 such a mild and dry winter season. 

 All biennial roots and plants are in 

 fine condition and give a good outlook 

 upon an average crop. But at time 

 of writing this we have a severe frost, 

 which will do much harm to the young 

 cauliflower plants, just brought in the 

 field some days ago and not yet ac- 

 climatized to resist such an unexpected 

 frost. It is, however, not to say now 

 what influence it will have on the gen- 

 eral crop. Cabbage is doing well up 

 to this moment and the acreage of it 

 is rather extensive. 



"Most of the biennial and perennial 

 flowers give a fair appearance, though 

 we have not a large acreage of them. 



"Beets, sprouts, kale, turnip and 

 swedes are looking well and seem to be 

 not damaged by the latest frost." 



SELECTION FOE STOCK. 



The Danish government has given 

 official encouragement to seed growers 

 with a view to improving the strains 

 of stock seed. L. Daehnfeldt, of 

 Odense, recently prepared, at the re- 

 quest of the University of Washington, 

 an account of the methods of selection 

 ' now in vogue, from which the follow- 

 ing is quoted: 



' ' After having planted or sowed an 

 area of many acres with plants or roots 

 from a recognized first-class stock, 150 

 of those in every respect most perfect 

 plants or roots are selected. These 

 plants must be kept carefully through 

 the winter, planted out next spring 

 with a good distance, and marked each 

 with a number. 



' ' In the course of the summer they 

 will carry seed, and as soon as this is 

 ripe it must be reaped separately from 

 every plant and provided with the re- 

 spective number. The selected 150 

 specimens are then planted in the com- 

 ing year to see if the progeny of the 

 good ancestors have inherited their 

 good qualities. Here it often is found 

 that with an excellent individual the 

 progeny is bad, and it is therefore evi- 

 dent that the inheritable capability is 

 of the greatest importance. 



"The seed of the 150 families is then 

 sown out next spring in one or two 

 rows of each, and beside each other. 

 The soil must be entirely homogeneous 

 and the distance between the rows and 

 the plants must be the same all over 

 the parcel, so 'as to guard against any 

 of the trials having an advantage over 

 the others. The growth of all these 

 trials must be watched closely during 



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