Book/Printed Material Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session.
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Image 1 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SB 117 S fiED GROWING*FORDHOdK .I3lRM. YI-Atlee RliRPEE C?, PHILADELPHIA- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 2 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. MANURES: How to Make and How to Use Them. BY FRANK W. SEMPERS, Director of the Fordhook Chemical laboratory. From Farm Journal, Philadelphia, August, 1895, Every user of fertilizers should have it....- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 3 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. We SELECTION IN SEED GROWING, COMPRISING PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SEEDSMEN S SESSION OF THE WORLD S AUXILIARY HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS, CHICAGO, AUGUST 16, 1893. WITH DISCUSSION ON SAME BY WILLIAM MEGGAT, OF...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 4 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. ,\1 w Copyright, 1893, BY W. Atlee Burpkk Co. WM. F. FELL CO., Electrotypers and Printers, 1220-24 sanson! street, philadelphia.- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 5 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. VO PUBLISHERS PREFACE. The widespread interest in the development of new and improved varieties of Vegetables, Grains and Flowers, and the importance of the papers read at the World s Auxiliary Horticultural...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 6 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. THE IMPORTANCE OF SELECTION IN SEED GROWING.* Complaints of poor seed come to us from every quarter, and we are asked, Where is the fault? We reply, in a great degree the...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 7 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Horticultural Congress. PAGE Opening Address, by President Bonney, 7 Opening of the Seedsmen s Session, 9 Pedigree or Grade Races in Horticulture, by Henri L. de Vilmorin, Paris,...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 8 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. In a country so vast and varied as ours, where the setting sun of the East is the rising sun of the West where in the North there is rarely a month...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 9 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. From The American Florist, Chicago, August 17, 189.1. THE HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS. THE Horticultural Congress of the World s Columbian Exposition at Chicago convened in the Memorial Art Palace on Michigan Avenue, on...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 10 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 8 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. This Congress has been organized by a Committee of Organization, of which Mr. J. C. Vaughan is chairman, assisted by a Committee of Co-operation of the American...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 11 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. From The Florist s Exchange, New York, August 26, 1898. SEEDSMEN S SESSION. THIS session, which was presided over by Mr. W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadelphia, president-elect of the American Reed Trade...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 12 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. PEDIGREE OR GRADE RACES IN HORTI= CULTURE. BY HENRI L. DE VILMORIN, Paris. [Read before the Seedsmen s Session of the World s Fair Horticultural Congress, Chicago, August 17, 1893. THE subject...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 13 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. PEDIGREE IN HORTICULTURE. 11 in the choice of the seed from which he expects some precious results. He will gather it from one plant seen among many, and will have good reasons...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 14 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 12 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. tion and keeping an exact record of the descent of all their plants, turn to the best account the wonderful action of heredity. That plants are endowed...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 15 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. PEDIGREE IN HORTICULTURE. 13 and much forked roots into fleshy, straight, and clean roots, say like those of the parsnip. Among the first batch of roots raised from wild seeds a dozen...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 16 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 14 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. senible its immediate progenitors, and atavism, which induces it to be like the mass of its removed ancestors. I omit for the present the idiosyncrasy, which is...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 17 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. PEDIGREE IN HORTICULTURE. 15 if the said progenitor be different from the bulk of the ancestors. From this it will be seen that choice new races can be raised quickest aud with...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 18 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 16 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. grounds at Verrieres. One plant of Clarkia elegans with pure white double flowers was discovered among a number of the same species with double purple flowers. It...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 19 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. PEDIGREE IN HORTICULTURE. 17 which inherit most of the good points of both parents, while some others sum up the defects of both. This I repeatedly observed in rear- ing cross bred...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 20 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 18 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. the main stem will give a larger proportion of plants with double flowers than if taken from the top of the same or from side shoots. I...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 21 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SELECTION IN ITS RELATION TO SEED GROWING. BY C. L. ALLEN, New York. [Read before the Seedsmen s Session of the World s Fair Horticultural Congress, Chicago.] SELECTION, from the seedsman s...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 22 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 20 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. necessities. At the proper time, if the same careful selection is again made and the same care in cultivation given, there will result another marked improvement, both...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 23 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. 21 lish-grown cucumbers, which are,- from nature s standpoint, degenerate forms, as they do not reproduce themselves except by artificial fertil- ization. This comes from their having been...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 24 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 22 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. reason for this is obvious. Nature, being a strict economist, does not work in the interest either of the seedsman or the market gardener. Her object and...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 25 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. 23 daring enormous crops. On the other side it is of a light, sandy character, with but little recuperative strength. Intermediate is, in sections, a turfy and sandy...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 26 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 24 SELECTION IN SEED GEO WING. and artificial. It must of necessity take a longer time to grow a head of cabbage weighing twenty pounds than one half the size. I have...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 27 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. 25 in shape, ripened irregularly, and the vines grew in all manner of ways, produced but little fruit, and this was worthless. Mr. Hallock, the successful grower, states...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 28 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 26 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. true of all others, which shows the importance of selection in all its phases. It has often been demonstrated that when any given type has been developed...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 29 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SEED GROWING IN DENMARK. BY J. PEDEBSEN-BJERGAARD, of Copenhagen. [Portions of a Papee Read Before the Seedsmen s Session ov The World s horticulturax congress, chicago, august 17. 1893.] THE time at...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 30 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 28 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. a great number of questions relating to the most profitable production of malt- barley. Two years later, in 1882, a similar committee was appointed by the said...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 31 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SEED GROWING IN DENMARK. 29 to greater perfection with regard to uniformity of type and habit, greater productiveness, etc. Gradually some of the most popular varieties of mangolds, especially, have been considerably...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 32 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 30 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. 1892, gave the large yield of 945 cwt. of roots per acre on a clayey soil the sugar percentage was 3.8, and the calculated quantity of sugar...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 33 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. SEED GROWING IN DENMAUK. 31 been to increase the percentage of sugar, but the highest possible per- fection has been kept in view on the different points to which I have already...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 34 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 32 SELECTION IN SEED GBO WING. As experience has proved, and as is now pretty generally known, the natural conditions of Denmark for growing cauliflower seed to the highest perfection are not...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 35 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. AMERICAN SEED GROWING. By C. C. MOKSE, of California. [Essay Read Before the Seedsmen s Session of the World s Auxiliary Horticultural Congress at Chicago, August 17, 1893.] IN the presentation of...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 36 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 34 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. Only a short time ago carrot seed was delivered with the beards on, and a very poor sample too and lettuce seed was poorly cleaned, when half...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 37 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. AMERICAN SEED GROWING. 35 coarser varieties. It is not, however, the case with all kinds, and a practical seedsman knows where to draw the line. The demands of some seedsmen who expect...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 38 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 36 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. In the climate of California (where my seed farms are located) let- tuce planted in December will grow fairly well all winter and spring, but will not...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 39 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. DISCUSSION OF THE ESSAYS. 37 From The Florists Exchange, August 26, 1893. DISCUSSION- OF THE ESSAYS. MR. WILLIAM MEGGAT, of Connecticut, being called on, said he thought the selection and hybridization of...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894
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Image 40 of Selection in seed growing, comprising papers read before the seedsmen's session. 36 SELECTION IN SEED GROWING. One question that had heen suggested by the essays was how they could do away with so many varieties. He thought that could be done by growing...- Contributor: Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee) - World's Horticultural Congress
- Date: 1894