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size  and  no  improvements  are  needed  in 
that  direction.  There  is  still  a  chance 
which  some  men  will  take  to  try  acres  of 
seedling  grapes. 
Some  enterprising  fellow  wi,ll  succeed 
in  breeding  oil’  the  prickers  or  reducing 
their  mini  her  and  size  on  blackberries, 
raspberries  and  gooseberries,  without 
detriment  to  vigor,  quality  or  produc¬ 
tiveness. 
Most  vegetables  are  so  frequently 
grown  in  large  quantities  by  so  many 
gardeners  that  it  is  natural  to  expect 
slight  improvements  in  many  places,  and 
occasionally  importations  of  something 
new.  For  example  the  Japanese  long 
ago  improved  the  roots  of  Common  bur¬ 
dock,  seeming  a  large  radish. 
New  sorts  and  improvements  of  oi  l 
sorts  are  by  no  means  so  much  needed  as 
a  more  universal  knowledge  of  what  have 
already  been  discovered  and  published. 
The  best  remedy  fbv  this  state  of  things 
is  a  more  practical  and  universal  edu¬ 
cation  in  school  and  college.  The  young 
mau  needs  to  learn  to  keep  his  eyes  open 
and  his  ear  to  the  ground,  for  the  best 
sources  of  help  to  success,  lie  must 
learn  to  find  and  make  use  of  good  things 
hid  away  iu  cords  of  bulletins  and  re¬ 
ports — how  to  discriminate  in  what  he 
reads  in  horticultural  and  agricultural 
journals. 
For  example,  2o  years  ago  anthruenose 
began  to  damage  field  beans  grown  i.n 
great  quantity  in  Michigan.  The  remedy 
was  well  known  to  the  botanist,  who  for 
much  of  this  period  each  year  advised 
through  the  press  sowing  seeds  from 
plants  hearing  healthy  pods,  as  the  fun¬ 
gus  entered  the  seed  through  the  pods, 
and  is  ready  to  attack  the  new  crop. 
The  growers  paid  no  attention  to  this 
advice  until  the  fungus  had  destroyed 
half  the  crop  in  the  State.  Not  until 
they  were  hit  hard,  did  they  secure  legis¬ 
lation  and  had  a  law  passed  authorizing 
an  investigation  and  remedy. 
In  most  eases  the  grower  of  fruits  has 
learned  that  he  might  ns  well  quit  the 
business  unless  he  follows  a  systematic 
light  with  insects  and  fungi.  Iu  some 
instances  the  up-to-date  gardener  will 
select  seeds  from  plants  that  are  im¬ 
mune  from  fungus  discuses. 
Grout  that  more  and  better  sorts  are 
needed,  that  improved  means  of  grow¬ 
ing  good  things  at  less  cost  are  desirable, 
the  ability  to  sell  at  a  good  price  is  of 
much  greater  importance.  At  the  pres¬ 
ent  time  and  most  likely  for  10  years 
more,  agricultural  colleges  and  agricul¬ 
tural  papers  are  doing  and  will  continue 
to  do  their  best  to  devise  plans  which 
shall  help  the  producer  to  net  more  than 
35  cents  on  a  dollar’s  worth  of  fruit. 
As  the  writer  sees  it,  the  prospects 
for  improvements  are  far  brighter  for 
the  next  25  years  than  they  have  beeu 
during  the  past.  25  years.  The  whole 
horticultural  world,  including  the  gov¬ 
ernment,  State  and  National,  hs  making 
wonderful  efforts  to  help  those  who  are 
groY’iBg  flowers,  fruits,  veget  ables,  to  sup¬ 
ply  the  world.  Notwithstanding  the  un¬ 
successful  few  who  will  never  get  far  up 
the  ladder,  the  time  will  never  pass  when 
men  cannot  he  found  who  will  buy  and 
plant  fruit  trees  in  the  vicinity  of 
Rochester  and  Geneva,  New  York,  set 
them  in  grass  land  and  leave  them  with¬ 
out  cultivation.  Those  looking  for  new 
and  valuable  results  have  learned  that 
nature  gives  up  her  secrets  with  the 
greatest  reluctance.  [ or. ]  w.  j.  bead, 
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Cabbage  on  New  Land 
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