The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . istence, which bindsthem down and holds them to specifictypes under natural conditions, are onlytoo familiar to the horticulturist. Thismaze of difficultly classified materialhas. it would seem, been an impene-tiable wall against which the efforts ofthe botanists have been unavailing. Bot-anists have found defence in the argu-ment that the forms which originateunder cultivation, and which, for con-venience sake, are called by horticul-turists, varieties, are not suflicientlymarked and sufficiently fixed to justifythe title of species. The
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . istence, which bindsthem down and holds them to specifictypes under natural conditions, are onlytoo familiar to the horticulturist. Thismaze of difficultly classified materialhas. it would seem, been an impene-tiable wall against which the efforts ofthe botanists have been unavailing. Bot-anists have found defence in the argu-ment that the forms which originateunder cultivation, and which, for con-venience sake, are called by horticul-turists, varieties, are not suflicientlymarked and sufficiently fixed to justifythe title of species. Therefore, theyare beneath the dignity of systematicconsideration. What are we to do?Are we to abandon the struggle and toconsider the products of our effortsunworthy of distinguishing names andspecific classification similar to that ac-corded to forms which have throughgenerations been built up under naturalconditions? The market gardener andthe fruit grower are not concernedwith a sufficient number and variety ofthese plants to give the matter any con-. ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHNEIDER & NOE, CONGERS, N. Y. igo6. The American Florist. 137 sideration. For the man, however, whois interested in improving any strain,variety or race of economic plants, theproblem at once assumes great import-ance. It is impossible to intelligentlyundertake the systematic improvementof any horticultural variety of plantswithout knowing something of the his-tory, relations and tendencies of theplants with which one is to deal. With-out, then, some system of classificationwhich will assign these products of our a dominant or recessive character. Suchwork as this must ever fall to the stu-dent of plants under cultivation. Dur-ing the last few years important move-ments along this line have been horticulturists, or the students ofplants under cultivation have, for in-sance, concerned themselves with thestudy of the cultural forms which havearisen from the eight species of lettucerecorded by botanists.
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