. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. 14 DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS AND PLANTS. handling only one kind of seed. When the envelopes reach the end of the belt they pass through machines which automatically seal them at the rate of a day. The seed warehouse is equipped with four of these belts and four sealing machines, and the daily out- put of 120,000 packages is mailed to the addresses furnished by Sena- tors and Members of Congress at the rate of about 250 a minute. (See fig. 8.) In the old days, before the automatic packeting ma- chines were developed, the seed was put int
. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. 14 DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS AND PLANTS. handling only one kind of seed. When the envelopes reach the end of the belt they pass through machines which automatically seal them at the rate of a day. The seed warehouse is equipped with four of these belts and four sealing machines, and the daily out- put of 120,000 packages is mailed to the addresses furnished by Sena- tors and Members of Congress at the rate of about 250 a minute. (See fig. 8.) In the old days, before the automatic packeting ma- chines were developed, the seed was put into the packets with spoons bv a large force of girls employed each Fig. 8.—Machines lor automatically sealing envelopes containing seed packets. MISCELLANEOUS SEEDS AND PLANTS. About 90,000 strawberry plants of standard varieties are also dis- tributed annually upon congressional requests. Of grapevines about 0,000 are distributed in the Southern States, and about 18,000 are sent into the INIiddle and Xorthern States. For the Southern States also from 3,000 to 4,000 citrange plants are provided annually. The citrange is a hybrid propagated from a cross between the Florida sweet orange and the Japanese Citrus tnfollata, wdiich was effected by plant breeders of this Bureau several years ago with a view to originating a variety that would prove iiardy and resistant to cold north of Florida. The Japanese tii- foliata is a true orange and is hardy as far north as NeAv York, but [Cir. 100]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry
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