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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[November 29, 1919. 
THE ү, OF RAISERS OF 
NEW PLANTS. 
PLANT breeders will welcome the sympathetic 
leading article on “ Тһе Protection of Raisers 
of New Plants,” in Gard. Chron. November 1, 
. 226, in spite of its somewhat pessimistic 
s ‘The subject is о ат соп- 
on the Continent, as was noted i 
sidered n your 
columns a short time ago, ar y eing 
taken up in 4 ош It is therefore по SS 
a matter for ‹ on -: abstr li ү 
е 18 нон 
acknowled by the writer and admitted by al 
fair-minded persons. That there are difficulties 
to be overcome no one will deny, but they are 
by no means great and are certainly not in- 
superable. 
The two stions involved: (1) 
re are 
merit or Salue of iN ады dod (2) E” 
novelty or distinctness. These are really Brite 
s 
һа 
in a consideration of proposals 
for ihe protection or patenting of seb varieties 
or strains of plants. I am an advoc of the 
method of *'the application of the ен laws 
to plant novelties," and all that is asked for is 
pow ffice to gran 
0 а, namely, 
m sole’ ground lty. "Thus all diffi 
culties founded on or improvement, or 
on the testing and proving of a new variet 
ina P 
Confini g discu: ussion therefore to the question 
z patenting а a ovd novelty, it RA ү of adva 
е deta 
ТУ еа 
һе asc ыш. E and consumer, 
they may 
the horticultural inde ar interests 
The procedure in genet toin naturally follow 
the lines of procedure that obtain nt. 
respect to novelty and stinktiiens, aud if satis- 
ould а ues a [не for a term of years 
to be decided i 
establish à new departm eni which wis simply 
be an "quw department to those already 
existir 
com- 
ual lists "e new and 
rare plants in The Gardeners Ohvonicle - the 
lists compiled ae societies devoted to 
particular flow: nie ыа; dnd many ors id 
records in horticultaral ис 
When сот 
pleted, and all records dul |, the subsequen 
work will only consist in кер ing them up to 
ттн ана the бете dor novelty will be little 
han нде sed bes great majority of 
A. ment would 
have the yp т o requie the седа to submit 
the plants s for expert 
е department 
for such cases as 
ү 
КОО be Е, it gegt of the R.H.S. ш 
nittees ourse, also be pow 
im ne A assistance 
or desirable. 
include = рше so 
immediate publication, but a record and an 
kk á determining the bona fide ай 
of the claim of these еса a 
and the кс Er that the number claims 
will not ve b Qmm a fraction a shu: numbers 
certified e —I do not see any reason to 
suppose Ша а улы body of experts would be 
xe p or that the difficulties would be in any 
way exception: 
s examples of ае ботой difficulties, 
take two put forward i article referred to 
—selected strains and (Men -muc E alike varieties. 
I may 
In the case of selected strains, it seems reason- 
able, and in Ma with the establish 
patent vs that the selector the strain 
would o 
improvement, ge nly sel 
strain subject to the payment of r royalty ^p the 
original raiser. As regards ‘ uch-alike 
varieties, if the ека ог фа 
though small, was rtant, tonius са 
pre-eminently Shit ге feature," the new variety 
would surely have a valid claim to a patent 
o injustice is done to the er Ау; a and if 
N olde 
the latter should be substituted KoA uad Le 
yen bad is уде ed for b 
In 
е 
‘consideration, but 
yn үл he Patent 
ice has now immense accumulation of 
M ире, = de ia ng sith difficulties, and for 
the m these Bs be т | _according 
ка thie! кыз principles that hav 
Dass to consider how the 
affect the com hanged generalis 
proposals w "n 
is 
ticular interests inv 
д spo 
result if suc- 
economie plants ss greatly stimu- 
lated. ma tod iiu i perience with 
е ee that tho + "possibilities of breed- 
wonderful as some е the eee may 
to us to-day, faint promise 
n s 
novelties would 
unless the improvement, and the 
value of it, were exceptional it would not be 
worth while, and the n bulk of new varieties 
that there would be any 
tion of trade or any иргеле а of price, 
of the patented noveltie B 
er to y the patent tees and recompense 
tribu 
pesto that , protection by this method 
of patenting will not multiply varieties exces- 
sively; it will tend to reduce € select t шош. 
The pro 
ti on the con aint would 
But it seems to me that though protection woul 
тһарз песе te some slight ranges of rac- 
tice, it woul s much ad 
ributors and ths horticultural trade generally 
ope- 
ere there's a wil here's a way.” 
iss. 
THE POLLINATION OF FRUIT BLOSSOMS, 
Mr. Сес Н. Hoover gives, in the s € Bee 
Jour nal, Y "s XLVI., the result - his 
trees ples Кеш, 
herries е s a list of fer 
sterile Mercy dh of each of these kinds of fruits 
be varieties 
which should p^ pania io tog 
RTILE.—lrish ns Gal en Spire, Stirling 
бш, White Transparent (о sale Lord 
Derby, Tower of Glammis, тн s of Oldenburg h, 
enden 
gremont Russet, evonshir 
Summer Golden Pippin, Christmas Pei 
omino, Washington, 's Red, 
Lord Grosvenor, Early Victoria, 
Allington Pippin, King of the Pippins, 
о m Potts's Seedling, Gladstone, 
зач ane 
кк eil, Sui fing, 
Ball ges Pontoise, 
Cox’s Orange 
Сай. ete 
Pomona, Жайыр s 
Elizabeth 
er wl 
Annie 
i Wond 
PEARS 
SLIGHTLY SELF- Ayet —Conf 
To аны: Winter Crasanne, Marie Lou: { 
Jules Guyo ce күт, lo Citro on des Carmes 
l oori . Germ St. Luke, Souvenir du. 
TOGETHER.—Dr. Jules 
Guyot ih. Dore du Comice and Williams’ Bon 
‘tien; Williams’ rétien with ^ 
of Jersey ; Doyenné du Comice 
