. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 8 The American Florist. Auir. I, same eastern region, is specially adapted to a much lighter class of soils. The sandy and gravelly soil in Steuben coun- ty. New York, is especially adapted to the Carman potato, while on the light loams of the southwestern section of New Jersey, Irish Cobbler and Green Mountain produce the best crops. On the clay loams in northwestern Ohio we find such late varieties as lona and Rural New Yorker best suited to pre- vailing conditions while Bliss' Triumph is especially adapted to t
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 8 The American Florist. Auir. I, same eastern region, is specially adapted to a much lighter class of soils. The sandy and gravelly soil in Steuben coun- ty. New York, is especially adapted to the Carman potato, while on the light loams of the southwestern section of New Jersey, Irish Cobbler and Green Mountain produce the best crops. On the clay loams in northwestern Ohio we find such late varieties as lona and Rural New Yorker best suited to pre- vailing conditions while Bliss' Triumph is especially adapted to the black prai- rie soils. In those localities where truck grow- ing is carried on commercial success de- pends very largely on the proper observ- ance of this intimate and important mu- tual inter-relationship. In a majoritj' of the cases observed it was found that varieties not only were better suited to certain soils, but that the class of soils specially adapted for their growth was similar to that upon which the variety was developed. This is because the plant is in no sense a fixed, unchangeable organism, restricted to a definite form. On the contrary it is highly plastic, capa- ble of being changed or modified in all of its parts. We can by cultural methods alone effect many changes, and it is just as certain that as many more will occur through natural agencies. The effect of climate, the character of the soil, whether dry or moist, sandy or clay, all exert an influence tending to change or modify the existing plant characters. EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT. We see then that in the development of varieties the effect of soil is mani- fested, and that to keep a variety pure by freedom from cross fertilization, is not always sufiicient to maintain its varied characteristics. To keep it up to the ideal establi-shed by the originator it is necessary to provide an environ- ment quite similar to that in which it was developed. For it is now thoroughly understood that a change in envir
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