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HORTICULTURAL PLANT BREEDING Prof William Wilam Homos Homes Horos Address Before the Fruit Growers Convention INSPECTION OF NURSERIES Hill Bi No Smith of tho the lt l tho Humorous of or the tile There were nearly neatly 20 fruIt growers grower morning session of or orthe present nt at n convention The coun coon counties countes the tIle Horticultural Utah Otah Juab ties of ot Wasatch tes Cache Davis Emory Emmy Grand Orand cor Carbon CallIon Beaver Deaver and Salt Sni Lake Lako were w ro well represented in n 1 brief address President paid a I high compliment to tile the unselfish a of at and Ufa long labors In the tho interest rs horticultural horticulture ot of lion Hon Thoma Judd president dent of ot tho tito state lon board of or horticulture He lie hInd had devoted the ho Jet boat part of ot his hil Mo Moto lt to promote to the growth of or tho the fruIt Industry In Iii Il Utah NURSERYMAN AND JiB ND FRUIT GROW I I Charles Smith at ot Smith Brothers Nursery begun began tho the session with a U brief address on tile the relations Grower of C thIn tho Nurseryman mind and Ind Fruit and pathetic sides o othe or orthe 01 The Site humorous Smith the business were as Mr audi nud auditor only anI could tell It and kept Ills tor or convulsed with laughter Coming wih down to tho the serious question of or orchard planting ho lIe suggested su ested that tho the pros prospective fruit grower rower should before be Core or ordering orderIng ordering dering his Ills trees find out what kinds of ot oh fruit his soil sell Is best hest adapted for and alIC I Ithen sol lien order Intelligently of ot a ml reliable I then ordel bo be the tile best trees to t get nurseryman had Imami ull then thon plant amId care enre for Cor them tem prop properly proper properly I erly er 1 P A Dix manager Davit Davis County Nurseries and amid M 1 B 13 of or this manager Utah Ulah Nursery company county count further discussed the nursery business and Its Us urging that nurserymen and 1111 should work together for tor tile the Improvement of oi horticultural conditions INSPECTION OF 01 01 NURSERIES Mr 11 AV W WO O 0 Knudson one ono of ot most successful erR and counts fruit tree m Ill II delivered an address ross on oit tilt tho al stock and or orchard inspection of oC nursery 01 chard ellard trees Tho The home hOlf nurseries are areas Ut tre disease or Insect as nl a R rule free from blemish but a groat gront percentage of or the th I Imported nursery stock was regularly condemned for tor some disease or 01 Insect pest peal ero none but homo home grown gown trees tree Hit alt out In ill Utah orchards the state stat would lil remain comparatively freo treo from froni rom the troubles which menace the Indus Industry Industry Industry try In other othel states Mr Ir U n H II Bower Dower of the Utah county nurseries 1 of ot Provo led In tho the discus slob slon of or tho tito duties dutes of ot nursery Inspection tion ton PLANT BREEDING Prof Proto William Homer of or tho the B Y r University Provo tho the ques question loll tion of ot Plant 1 ant Breeding as IS Applied to He began his paper papel with tho ho following quotation from froni Prof L 14 I II 1 Bailey Batley The opportunities of ot the tha ore are just beginning to be bt rec roc recognized Most of at our work worl has hns b ben en temporary and of ot a superficial charac character ter or Real Uel horticultural research IB Ia II on only onI ly hy I ben begun benOn On the biological side slee the concern of or thu la Itt two fold told to tomake tomako make mako two blades bladel of ot grass KrASS grow only one grew before to make each blade bettor botter than thun Its parent were Our definite and methodical work has haH hal been directed lella chiefly toward the former mIld end AVo We have tried to increase production by augmenting tile the capabilities of or tho the thoroll roll Itoh and by extra care of ot tho tIm plant AVo We Voshal shall now attempt similar effort by making hotter better hetel plants Of at course there thero has been remarkable progress s In var varieties val of plants but for tOI tho the mat part It has hall been fortuitous and ed do The new plant breeding Is III more moro Important than the old Insistence on fertilizing of at tho the land hand But wo we are aro with tho lIe oven yet et mostly concerned production of oZ concrete varieties fol tel following following lowing the th age long conception that species anil and varieties are art entitles s very likely we shall find that time the best plant breeding Ikel Is III that Ilc which produces grad gradual hal ual Improvements Inside In tho the variety vallet until n a variety shall develop Into some Mme something thing timing better betor than Itself AVo We Vo shall work workout workout out such constants that t each grower awer will know kIO how to Increase the thu efficiency cy wJ C ot of a 1 crop crup an as well voil by lii b brooding the tho as by hy manipulating the soil oll The Tho plant fol Te I will not limit need flOOd to rely solely on n ii 1 growl grower maker of 04 new neS nel kinds professional In technical horticultural practise the most definite progress seems ReelS to be making In the tho general subject of plant breeding Many persona particular In agricultural colleges experiment of ot stations und anti national department agriculture are devoting a 1 good part of or their energies Iro to this work Th lh h subject IH is II passing out nut of ot tho stage of or more mitre amateurism into Herious HonOUR guest for tOI lArge largo economic results r wo we nr am aro hoping fruitless Into to 10 pass from tho thu discovery tI and amId Ind application of ot lawn OI definitely the tho that govern more or em O less letis making of or new kInd of ot plants plante Horticultural novelties are aro steadily being Introduced from train foreign coun countries COl I tries disseminated not only on bv b 1 hut but aUn ni f and ai through tho tim agencies of f gar garden lien den tho the United States department ot of ofa agriculture a Ind private establishments Individuals of wealthy With WIthin In our national boundaries wo w have aill possible rangos o of climate end mill Through the Intro ot of Ind now nOSY plants It Is IB expected that we wo will become Independent of ot oIlier othor nations 11 OH aH I tar far an as ni tho most moat Im un Important plant cultures art ure Iro As examples of ot the transplanting of ot Al Industries from profitable plant to our own In recent years we wo have hava time tho establishment of ot the thio Al AI Algerian gerian and Ind Arabian datu dati palm and nd th thit Smyrna ibm Ig In Arizona and California P Perhaps the tim mOlt moet rapidly growing Introduction nan has need for tor plant hal from the demand created by b tho In Jim tl Groaning number o lt plant ls In Inthe the tho tIC country for tor plants plant to t ti be 11 used for far uro purposes gathered rud from as its II widely sop sep separated an its 11 rn Prance Franco o anil In California hove have Ilvo been besil u used ed In tIle tha tie pro IVl plo of tome Home of ot Luther nio t hybrids Tho Tile mont mOlt effective apil bet best equipped organization In tho lie world for tr Kocur MOUr Ing Iny lg for eed ee which will ohl audit nH I them III In their work of ot croal croll Ing wi new mitt anti valuable plant furm j Is h the lie ant of seed und 1114 lne plant Introduction tion mu on located nt III I 1 r t I ThU hla branch nf or the tho department of ot tIns linn n Vt I carpI of it botanists plant distributors plant propagator record clerks field aldi etc mc together with wih agricultural ex ox explorer X in many foreign countries and 11 correspondents all 01 over Oyer thin tho 1 world worl who IH to in ill tho till work yerk of ot discover discovering ing ng h IW w anti and valuable plants Importing hunt thum Into Iu tile tho th United All AntI nd plan plue luR iu them theta in iii the lIe of ot trained ex IX Burbank In lit of ot Luther II exploiting hA the tho to rise hn hIt given tho tim public press hn rM rc discussion horticultural striking most It Is not tow row years I of or through the past PaCt any fault of ot his hI that bitt hl hil Ills plant pIStIL breeding work has thus often oton broil been beel stated and over ud Oel eI Although Mr rr Burbank Is II not lut en rl engaged scientific research hl his Based In pure Is and work volk II sIt nil illS his Ills his life He li Is devoting hil l ni II energies to the Ito th Introduction and pro production of now hOW beautiful or useful ducton lew strangely horticultural plants His ills alto aim of or enough In Ito I not the Ito accumulation wIll wel welfare wealth but tn to contribute to tho thorn thom bet Let bettor bettor fare of ot other othor mon men by b giving Riving fre tor food better betor fruit and moro more beau bonu flowers ills HIl horticultural productions are aro numerous anti varied No doubt many mau will provo prove to bo be b of or economic value wi tho lie as ns havo ho already tho the Shasta daisy the tile Burbank potato and others otho According to a I recent report tills this potato IH is II Add Ing Jog government to Iho ho agricultural productivity of ot the tho lIe country an nn annual amount ot 17 hen lIefl wo we 0 consider the tho Ito wonderful ninde In tho the progress r that linn lien hl been of ot our evolution ani OUI present plants the high to te tl which they have been beu elevated by 11 incani of ot Improved culture methods breeding and amid selection no ne one will say ray that tillS best bOlt In lit horticultural products lou luw 11 been attained Among Amon the tho Im Improvements which Ho Il lb within vi thin the th range of C possibilities of ot brooding take tako tn r past achievements its a n criterion which would bo be of at Infinite In value in II it growers or of this state n nIl mu well ns 15 thiers tIre tho following may m bo ho enumerated n crated Larger variety of or fruits fruit of ot good gool shIpping qualities maturing earlier anti later than our present ones onel toro Moro hardy hort frost resisting fruits A blight bl ht resisting pear with tho thio quality of or Bartlett anti and 1111 rC of Seedless If fruits DI ne resisting fruits truls |
