. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1642 SEEDAGE SEEDAGB and if those in one or more bloelts show either general inferiority or a large portion of inferior plants, the en- tire blocli is condemned and rooted out, even if in doing so some very fine individual plants are destroyed. The remaining blocks are then carefully examined andthatone selecte
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1642 SEEDAGE SEEDAGB and if those in one or more bloelts show either general inferiority or a large portion of inferior plants, the en- tire blocli is condemned and rooted out, even if in doing so some very fine individual plants are destroyed. The remaining blocks are then carefully examined andthatone selected which shows the closest adherence to the desired type, and from it a few plants are selected and their. |\ -g!: 2293. A gardener's flat, or shallow box, in which seeds are sown and small plants handled. A good size for a fliit is 16 s 20 inches, and 3 inclies deep. seed saved separately for planting in blocks the snc- ceedine: year. Then the remaining plants of this and the other blocks which escaped the first weeding out are â ^ very carefully examined and all inferior ones removed, aiid the seeds from the plants which still remain are saved together. These are usually sufficient in quantity to plant a field, the product of which is used by the seedsman for his general stock seed. From the stock seed he grows the seed which he offers his customers. The same process is repeated every year, or at least every few years, and results in marked improvement, if not in type, at least in the fixing and making permanent the good qualities of the variety. Having thus obtained stock seed which is of superior quality and sure to reproduce itself, the seedsman contracts with some farmer, located in a section where soil and climate are favorable to the best development of the sort, to plant a large field and save the entire seed product. This the farmer does with little regard to selection, taking pains only to guard against contamination from adjoining fields, and to remove any chance sp
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