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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1919 



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name; and he owns at least one Liberty Bond. 

 Not only is he carrying out his plans for his own 

 education, but also he is helping his brothers 

 and sisters along the same road. The neigh- 

 boring factory has perhaps lost in him a worker 

 of average ability; but the country has gained a 

 highly efficient food producer and a potential 

 educated citizen of real worth — and all as the 

 result of a garden club stimulus. 



The Free Seed Joke.— The annual report 

 of the Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try says that "During the fiscal year 191 8 there 

 were distributed on congressional and miscellane- 

 ous requests 11,165,709 packages of vegetable 

 seed and 2,188,818 packages of flower seed 

 . . . each containing 5 packets of different 

 kinds of seed. There were also distributed 

 12,473 packages of lawn-grass seed and 11,110 

 packages of improved Narcissus and Tulip bulbs. 

 The seeds and bulbs were purchased on com- 

 petitive bids, as heretofore. Each lot of seed 

 was thoroughly tested for purity and viability 

 before acceptance by the department, and tests 

 of each lot were conducted on the department's 

 trial grounds to determine trueness to type." 

 Recalling the crop of criticisms of, and protests 

 against, the congressional free seed distribution 

 policy, that springs up every year just as surely 

 as the early Dandelions, it would seem as though 

 either the department's tests were inaccurate, or 

 the seed samples were unrepresentative, or the 

 methods of the recipients of the gift seed who 

 fail to make it grow, were careless in the extreme. 

 What is the answer? At all events the "distribu- 

 tion" is of no practical value — even in catching 

 votes! 



Douglas Spruce.— Now that plans are being 

 made for spring planting I would like to call 

 attention to the effect of the winter of 1917-1918 

 on the Douglas Spruce. I had one planted at 

 the foot of a hill, western exposure, about eight 

 feet high and five inches through at the ground, 

 set out in 1913. This was killed down about one 

 third its height. Another, smaller but set out 

 at the same time, with a northeast exposure was 

 entirely killed. Neither tree had made any un- 

 usual growth the past season but were healthy, 

 fine specimens. The lowest temperature of the 

 winter was ten degrees below zero and snow 

 covered the ground from December 8th to the 

 same time in February. Other evergreens near 

 by were not affected — Biota varia, several Re- 

 tinisporas, Arborvitae, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, 

 etc. It would be interesting to know if others 

 had a like experience with the Douglas Fir. — 

 /. L. Wood, Va. 



— It would be interesting to know the origin of 

 the plant that suffered. Seed gathered from 

 the higher regions gives hardy stock. With us 

 the Douglas has successfully withstood all kinds 

 of tests when even native evergreens have suffered 

 somewhat. — Ed. 



Control of Leaf-rollers. — Excellent progress 

 in the campaign for the control of the pest on 

 strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and other 

 related fruit-bearing plants of the rose family is 

 reported by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 following spraying experiments with arsenical 

 poisons. In Iowa and Kansas, single applica- 

 tions of such a poison destroyed two thirds of 

 the pests in the test gardens, and a season of 

 careful work resulted in a saving of at least fifty 

 per cent, of the crop. 



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