. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 2904. The American Florist. 977 this kind a uniform system of note-taking on varieties should be adopted. With this information at his command the seedsman could more intelligently recom- mend different varieties and strains for different localities. Prof Corbett sug- gested that the Society for Horticultural Science, being of national scope, could be made an immensely important factor^ in aiding in the accumulation of informa- tion of this character. Acting on this suggestion the society then added to its list of
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 2904. The American Florist. 977 this kind a uniform system of note-taking on varieties should be adopted. With this information at his command the seedsman could more intelligently recom- mend different varieties and strains for different localities. Prof Corbett sug- gested that the Society for Horticultural Science, being of national scope, could be made an immensely important factor^ in aiding in the accumulation of informa- tion of this character. Acting on this suggestion the society then added to its list of permanent committees one on the CO-ordination of horticultural work. D. G. Fairchild, agricultural explorer for the I'nited States Department of Agriculture, spoke on the mangosteen, (|ueen of tropical fruits. This choicest of tropical fruits is yet little grown outside of the Malay archipelago, but experiment has shown that it can be grown in very moist soil throughout a wide range in the tropies, including Hawaii. Mr. Fair- child believes that it could be successful!}- grown in Porto Rico and even in the everglades of Florida. The successful introduction of the industry into Porto Rico would be worth millions of dollars to the island. The mangosteen has a hard shell and is a fair shipper. Fruits have l)een in transit over twenty days without decaying. Prof. R. A. Emerson, of the Nebraska experiment station, discussed the efibcts of cover crops on soil moisture and soil temperature. He said that cover crops prevent rapid freezing and thawing and hence lessen the danger of killing roots of trees. They withdraw water from the soil, thus causing trees to ripen their wood earlier. They hold the snow in winter, greatly lessening the depth to which the ground freezes. To hold snow crops which remain upright arc prefer- able to those that mat down. A feature of the programme was a many-sided discussion of shading as a horticultural practice. The practice of growing plants under a cl
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