APBIL 2o. 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



55 



particularly as to tenderness and sweet- 

 ness, is very dependent upon the stage 

 of maturity at which it is cooked, 

 sometimes the growth of only a few 

 liours affecting the discernible sugar 

 content. If the corn in a field from 

 western seed in which the rapid-ma- 

 turing habit was transmitted was gath- 

 ered for canning when most of the ears 

 were in prime green-corn condition, 

 some of the ears would be so mature v 

 as to lower the average quality of the 

 pack, but it would be impracticable to 

 reject such slightly overmature ears, 

 and the resulting poor quality of the 

 j)ack would be charged to generally in- 

 ferior stock rather than to the effect of 

 the few older ears. 



One indication that rapid develop- 

 ment, with the consequent short period 

 of prime canning condition, is an im- 

 portant, if not the chief, objection to 

 western-grown seed, is the fact that 

 experienced canners who insist upon 

 pastern-grown seed of the earlier sorts, 

 like Crosby, do not seriously object to 

 well-grown western seed of the later 

 and slower maturing sorts, like Ever- 

 green and Country Gentleman. 



Whatever may be the facts as to 

 the relative merits of eastern and west- 

 ern grown seed, the writer believes that 

 it is always true that the character 

 of green corn is more or less affected 

 by that of the soil on which the seed 

 was grown. Seed grown in moderately 

 rich but warm, well-drained, gravelly 

 soils, like those common in Connecticut, 

 New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 and some sections of Iowa, Nebraska 

 and Minnesota, will give better and 

 sweeter corn than seed grown on very 

 rich mucky or prairie soils which would 

 give large crops of field corn. It ap- 

 pears to be impossible to grow on a 

 cold, heavy clay soil sweet-corn seed 

 which will produce green corn of the 

 highest quality. 



[To be continued.] 



SFIBiEA FOUAQE SCOBOHED. 



Will you kindly tell me what is the 

 matter with the enclosed spiraea foliage 1 

 We have them in a temperature of 55 

 degrees and have kept plenty of water 

 on them. We have used tobacco stems 

 once or twice, but with the plants cov- 

 ered with papers. There is only one 

 plant as bad as the sample, but it is 

 showing a little on several of the 

 others. I hope you will be able to tell 

 me what it is and a remedy for it. 

 D. B. K. 



The leaves have been scorched by the 

 fumigation. Tobacco stems are, as a 

 fumigant, largely obsolete. They should 

 never be used where spiraeas are grow- 

 ing, as even when covered with papers 

 the foliage is liable to be scorched. If 

 you would in future use some of the 

 specially prepared tobacco papers you 

 will not damage your spiraea foliage at 

 all, but will destroy aphis, etc., just as 

 well as is done with the tobacco stems. 



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