. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. IQIO. The American Florist. 1039. A SELECTED COMPACT GROWING VARIETY OF HYBRID CAMASSIA. (BURBANK) As to quality, there is no doubt but that the seed handled today by the best dealers is fully equal or superior in many respects, particularly in cleanliness and vitality, to that of 25 years ago, but its quality as ; trueness and uniformity of varietal type, as compared with the better general knowledge of the importance of these qualities, and as to what good seed should be, we fear has not been improved. Our best
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. IQIO. The American Florist. 1039. A SELECTED COMPACT GROWING VARIETY OF HYBRID CAMASSIA. (BURBANK) As to quality, there is no doubt but that the seed handled today by the best dealers is fully equal or superior in many respects, particularly in cleanliness and vitality, to that of 25 years ago, but its quality as ; trueness and uniformity of varietal type, as compared with the better general knowledge of the importance of these qualities, and as to what good seed should be, we fear has not been improved. Our best seedsmen recognize this and even complain that it is now very difficult, if not impossi- ble, to get stock even equal in these respects to that of 10 or 20 years ago. To what is this want of improvement, even possible deterioration, due? We believe that the root of the difficulty Is the gradually increasing separation and want of recognition of the unity of interest between the seed dealer and the seed producer, the farmer who actually grows the seed. Fifty years ago the growing of the seed was as much a part of the seed business as the preparation of the catalogue, and the fixing of the price, or the pack- ing of the seed. It is not so regarded today; a large proportion of the seed Is actually grown by men with no In- terest in the art of seed growing but who grow seeds simply as a matter of convience, and often only because the use of seed for a seed crop is most easily obtained. IMPROVED MACHINEET. The greatest change in the practice of seed growing has been along the line of the American tendency to re- duce cost through the use of improved machinery and by methods which lessen the amount of hand labor. There Is also a decided increase in the degree to which seed is produced as & sort of side product of some other Industry, and the products of many fields originally intended for canning find their way to the seedsman. It seems to me that in magnitude the seed trade, at
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