SEEDS WHICH SUCCEED 



Scientific Seed Growing 



The Seed grower, if he be proficient in his business, necessarily gives much attention to the subject of 

 cross-breeding and hybridization, unusual poUenation brought about generally by accident, at other times 

 by design. 



Natural poilenation in the vegetable garden takes place every day throughout the blooming season, 

 provided the weather conditions are favorable. Under other conditions, it is necessarily partially arrested, 

 sometimes entirely so, as, for instance, during a prolonged season of rainy days. 



Poilenation is not always followed by fertilization, as there are many intervening processes, and under 

 some creations it has been demonstrated that poilenation is not always necessary to effect fertilization. 

 The future scientist may yet by artificial disturbances or shocks develop in some plants vital Seeds without 

 the agency of poilenation. 



We are frequently asked why so-called fruit-bearing vegetables deteriorate, to which we reply that 

 it is caused by years of in-and-in breeding. All breeders of high-class animals understand that in-and-in 

 breeding is disastrous to the keeping up of quality, and just so it is in the vegetable kingdom, but to a more 

 quickly marked degree. Every man of any agricultural knowledge at all is well aware that potatoes deteri- 

 orate very rapidly, and it is from this cause. Few potatoes retain their popularity over fifteen or twenty 

 years, as by that time the potato plants are observed to be degenerate both as applies to production and 

 as to quality. New varieties of potatoes which are produced from different strains by hand poilenation 

 or accidental poilenation have a stronger physical character than those cross-pollenized by plants of the 

 same strain, grown in the same field, as is the case in ordinary culture. 



Without doubt, all garden vegetables show a weakening in quality when interbred for years, and the 

 Seed merchant who continues indefinitely to sell Seeds produced from constant interbreeding certainly 

 will in time offer something below par. 



Scientific cross-breeding is, therefore, very advantageous, because Seeds produced by the crossing of 

 two varying types develop plants of more strength than plants produced from either type alone, and it is 

 fortunate that this is so, because, if it were not, everything we have in the shape of plants grown from Seed 

 would so degenerate in time as to be unrecognizable as compared with the originally approved type. 



The scientific Seed grower possesses great opportunities for benefiting himself and the nation by steering, 

 as it were, creative forces into new channels for the strengthening and general betterment of resultant plants. 



Most interesting developments based upon the earlier theories of Mendel, expressed now by the term 

 genetics as applied to heredity, and sometimes to the absence of it in plant breeding, have broadened out 

 to include remarkable results in animal breeding, and without doubt future scientific men will further develop 

 results beyond present contemplations as there seems no end to most astonishing results. 



Cabbage GrGwers 



can double their profits by setting out in the field from early in December to the 1st of April 



LANDRETHS' SEA ISLAND GROWN PLANTS 



which can be shipped to any point within three days'" travel by express from our growing farm, located on 

 one of the sea islands near Charleston, S. C. 



The plants are grown from Seed sown in the open field from October to February, at periods to meet 

 the demands for plants from various localities. 



The plants are hardy, tough seedlings, showing their winter's exposure by a depth of color quite 

 unusual. Sometimes they appear quite purple in the bud and red on the leaf, but that color passes away 

 soon after planting. They can be shipped with safety over long distances and after being set out upon 

 their arrival at destination resist injury even should the temperature fall to 15 degrees or should they be 

 covered by a temporary blanket of snow. 



Set out early, the tops do not make much effort to grow, but the roots grow both by day and night so 

 that when the spring weather sets in their growth is very phenomenal — so rapid that the crops from these 

 plants set out a month earlier than northern-grown plants could possibly be put out will produce double 

 the weight of tons to the acre that can be produced from home-raised later plants. You can rely upon 

 these plants grown on sea islands to give an exceedingly profitable return. 



Upon first arrival of these plants, do not be alarmed over a slight wilting or a tough and stringy appear- 

 ance, as this is a consequence of their open-air exposure — an appearance which they will outgrow to your 

 perfect satisfaction. The four varieties we offer are: 



Early Jersey Wakefield, Large Charleston Wakefield, Succession, Early Flat Dutch. 



No orders will be shipped except they be accompanied with the cash. The purchaser pays the express 

 at his end, but the special plant rate is very low. No orders whatever are filled C. O. D. 

 By mail the price is 35 cents per 100. 



By express, delivered at the express station at growing point: 



500 plants in crate $1.00 per 500 5,000 to 8,000 in crate $1.25 per 1,000 



1,000 to 4,000 in crate 1.50 per 1,000 10,000 and over in crate 1.00 per 1,000 



These plants are shipped in crates holding 500, 1,000 and 2,000 plants. Including crates, they weigh 

 about 25 lbs. per thousand plants. 



No orders are accepted for shipment by express in quantities of less than 500. 



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