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OCTOBER 11, 1919.] 
THE ROSARY. 
ROSE MARTHA DREW. 
E ull pou Rosarians will find 
rie nd that 
in this 
w Rose wil fulfil their ex- 
E ations as reg size and other attributes 
that go to the making of an exhibition flower. 
As shown by a E oe pr and 
the National Society’ 
held at the Taon Scottish gr Hall, We 
minster, September Martha Drew бе 
-- full n exhibition flow ers ої Pe БаР. 
of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, flesh- 
о 
num therefor 
ood grower cal Ее of 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Of this шу million Es are cultivated. A 
variety known as * Indrasai is being rapidly 
propagated Th > yields of this in 1915-16 yrs 
30 per cent. the ordinary kinds. In 1 
two eas o Hone of pure see "d were distributed 
in Bengal, whic г contains one of the great rice- 
pro ducing ^ acts of the world. 
Some wh а а has been carried on im 
he Argentine by Backhouse, iormerly — 
to the John Innes гаш. һе со аш 
i that great country extending from 
of Magellan 
to the tropic of Capricorn а are exc сөр 
tional in the diversity of s nd climate. The 
wheat cultivat ed in such 7 3 
A 
ention T e dry M ae òf the 
p^ Һе Жуз ап interesting variety in 
on kn 
f best in most parts of the country, peaz cultivatic own as '' Barletta," whi ze 
will be welcome. thou gh mixed and heterogeneous, was uniform in 
Fic. 84.—RosE MARTHA DREW : COLOUR € PINK, WITH GOLD SHEEN AT THE 
BASE OF PET. emi 
(Gold Medal, ap Septem 9.) 
BOTANY AND THE EMPIRE * possess sessing a non-shelling character. rtner 
. 
уа bite p. d 
Another crop tha rece ttention is 
indigo, In regard to ib а new method у growing 
the seed n worked out cause of 
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Considerable progress hed y 
rice, the chief cereal food o ie ople 
E Vu AU T ————————————————- 
T. itish Koicvistion for the MEER of £ Scien 
ком "y et чу vr ee Section by Sir Daniel rae зи 
of the Beato ^ , D.C.L., LL.D., F.L.S., President 
of Tadie 
during periods of drou ht it acquired s habit 
о abandoning ыен ing and producing only опе 
or two rows of Its chief defect was its 
iability to be Marke by Puccinia triticum 
(not E a In some year в 20 | т cent 
) cro t owing to this ist. 
t 
р 
was ascertained that European ths mri immune 
to T gl epis: were susceptible to the Argen- 
tin 
2 ве Lond taken out by Backhouse was 
foun a immune to P. triticum. From this 
ve ly was rem p a b ined 
e 
sinc en 
nt yield. The ee i of the 
Barletta, as a non-sheller, to the conditions m 
the Argentine is due to the fact that the har ves 
in wheat, so in cotton, i 
«тоба entirely dependent д fot. vapibus. 
The uneasiness caused by 
the excessive depend- 
ence xA the great Lancashire cotton industry, 
with ports of the annual value of over 
hinded million sterling, on supplies from abrog "s 
and the occasional shortage, have pA to ge ne em 
ac oe being take с 
South Carolina, gia, а 
regard to this, it is interesting to learn tl 1 
recent years Sea Is cotton has been intro- 
kie back again to = West Indies, which was 
un Xs original home 
s was effected by the Imperial Departm 
of Amici in the W ‘est Indies in 2, when 
ire strain ised from plants immune 
ed in quantity fro 
that the i 
Eu; 
or n а firm basis, and 
h t oi anters an. 
por cotton industry was suc- 
sfu stab some years the West 
Indian cotton tran ob onn a higher price than 
the toresponding кыр eotton ТОД: the Sea 
Islands themselves. Т spinn n Lanca- 
shire are-now practic ally ае: Чг their 
supplies pa this cotton from the United States 
Further, it i t. improbable owing to the 
is no g 
popions ча cks of the Mexican boll weevil on 
a 
ds, owing t 
isolation, p 
nen pr нсы by а grant 
from- the Imper em Dieters of Scientific and 
Industrial Research, has in hand important in- 
vestigations with the view of placing the work of 
cotton selection and bre eding on scientific ines. 
F s} 
far is at t 
suggest er Lal 
lines of cd tio от ing i 
mind the ie rsen псе of lint index and 
lint _ percentage, 1t po e to eig a strain 
of Sea Island iios ev a weight of lint per 
E reater than that of ie ordinary 
toll 31 per cent 
in п tis А 
osses occur in some seasons from 
the att: DA of insect and fungous In some 
instances the Internal Boll di isease in very de- 
structive This is due to the puncture of the 
young bolls by cotton stainers (Dysdercus) and 
green bug (Nezara), and the infection of *he 
