. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1220 The American Florist. July lo. Peonies at Sarcoxle, Mo. The illustration lureuitli shows ;i nne block of two-year-old plants or thai popular peony, Queen Victoria, growing in the field of Gilbert H, WiUl. Sarcoxle, Mo. The photograph from which the cut was prepared was not as clear as we would have liked, but it is quite apparent that the plants art- good and have made great progres!^, considering their age. Mr. Wild has had a long experience with peonies, having been in the business for many years. He has 15
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1220 The American Florist. July lo. Peonies at Sarcoxle, Mo. The illustration lureuitli shows ;i nne block of two-year-old plants or thai popular peony, Queen Victoria, growing in the field of Gilbert H, WiUl. Sarcoxle, Mo. The photograph from which the cut was prepared was not as clear as we would have liked, but it is quite apparent that the plants art- good and have made great progres!^, considering their age. Mr. Wild has had a long experience with peonies, having been in the business for many years. He has 15 acres devoted en- tirely to their culture. Root Crops. A paper read by C. A. Zavitz of tht- Ontario '^Agricultural (College ""flph " the convention of the Amer^an Seed Trade Association. Niagara Falls, Ont., June li. The growing of roots as a feed for farm stock has received much atten- tion in many of the European coun- tries The root crop, however, has never been developed to the same ex- tent in America, owing, no doubt, to the large areas devoted to corn >n P?}'" tain sections, and to the adaptability of the soil to grain crops throughout a considerable part of both the United States and Canada. In the northeast- ern states and in Ontario. Quebec and the maritime provinces, however, the field roots occupy an important place in agricultural production. In some sections of the country, the area de- voted to the root crop is increasing from vear to year. In order to illus- trate "this point, I would draw your attention to the increase in the area devoted to the mangel crop in the province of Ontario. This increase can be observed from a study of the number of acres used for mangels id each of a number of the past yeai's as follows: 1882, '- l''^.-^^' ISq-^ 22 026; 1897, 41,; 1901, 61,- 095-' 1908, 67,937. During the same period of 26 years, the ajea devoted to turnips increased from iS,».:d in top- to 120,920 acres in 1908. Within th
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