| Show 1 W L n r I I Un I S M oJ h H Our Grout G t Matrimonial Plant Plant Bureau and ord Some Som of o Its It 1 I I m a m a t tC C InaI aK leer er J r I Offspring i I I I i f I L Special of tiM l NW by Y G 7 D I Ii Sam Barn lius hUI ha turned lurn d 1 Ir I I The tad tact ii need d not elle the tb i U I splutters of or nor the million why who are pining for or In th the theother other of or th the United Manic Sams matches match have hUv nut not lIotto notto to do with wilh human Such Burti union lire nrc mado In Ut heaven Same m r nr ur lire of ot the earthy earth They IM tire lIro marriage of or and end fruits CruIte 11 ml they nit adding to the wealth ot of the country I rant cant tell just Juit how much but the lift sum runs run high Into the million and Lu ut the matrimonial 1111 U III Ujust just to 10 work iw H I OIt SOUTH SO I J spent today nt at the agricultural J d tt with will Dr J 1 the head hend ot of the tho laboratory of ot plant und with other clen eden tIte on what In III U to 0 new and fruit Dr Webber line ho devoted his hiLl life lire to tills work end and tIie thA direction of or the of or l culture ho bo hIM bin arc tr nc Lic wonders Thy fh y have hae pro pio nv cottons cotton and und they havo hau mi 1111 III r lingo which will wilt grow arow about mo mil nitIe further north than lillY WI now floW lIu 0 j At the tho orante ii of thu are alf grown rown almost Altogether III In Inthe the half of ot Florida and line In III II n ly Put purl of at will lId the orange oran region lIlon northward throughout Georgia Jeorgia and HilI Into III to South Carolina the Ute atte part parti of ot und into mill many other othel I part of ot California It Jl will make It I I for fot Ol ewer farmer of or orI I these the region relone to huo an grove I ln hU back yard ard and end orange will be bo boI beI I ni common there an as apples are through throughout i out flit the north It took About 10 years yeura ur to In produce thin thie nuU IK l how v it II came about U IK i un us fob fol follow low Io In iii 1081 ln and IMS we hud bid a Ii terri tern terrible ble hIe froit troit which destroyed the of ot The Iho trow pro re on Co down dow n to the Die thi e ground 1101 upon U look IHlI I tog Ins back tiek It wit Willi wae found that inch Ill h had hOtl come cOllie mm 1010 time to too limn tl d everything The Iho department then tiled I to 10 8 nol a Q hardier ha rob ler which II trio would Id w It he the thu t hoe cold coil nood Jr 3 1 Webber and anol anI W T I 1 Swingle who ho were ere thru workIng for tur the depart department ment In III were wele given thin thle Ud I After fter a time Utne Pout Swingle dropped nut lout but Ur Dr Jr Webber continued d pro j i hOVel tho which ht he me one today tOil II Thi Tb work that as do i i ii i i MIH l tI II of ot hardy trees trets I 1 d K X W WK I y y 0 00 t y y y yI I t X X t y 0 V I V I Y l I V Y x r J V VV ii V t ts V Y V V V V 1 X X s 1 y 0 l L jf V V w VV V c V i 0 i Vi V V 4 4 w V 1 Y 1 VV S SIo Io 1 7 V V 5 o V V V V VV V V V 0 1 0 0 V I x V I S St 1 t r I II t f 1 y V Y Y I 1 0 r K W W M MW THE WHITE r II Tr II J J r i Now Oranges for the Southern States t t Tho Agricultural Department un I 1 Lomon Lemon and ln rono e Tho Now New IU Glove Grape Grapo F What Soon is le leI I Doln In Now New und ln nd of or the tho Lettuces Tho Romance I I Of tho Potato Luthor and ond his hili hi Wonderful Van White lilacK I harry borry thu Shasta DuIs Dols Daisy and the Iho 1 I U 1 I j J W n r Jou AAA vv i 1 it Ii ti 1 I I IV Tt 1 I J I i V i X 1 X ot 4 r S 5 1 V 5 V y y 4 x x x THE NEW ORANGE LEMON AND AN ORDINARY LEMON IEMON picked out au I tou heet and tried to breed II tougher ones onee on by feed eoll I Thin was AM very slow ebow ow and un they looked tooke to neu seo If It they could not toot tint 1111 1 typos type with which they tho might cross crossbreed breed bret Among mong tho Ih th other othel thing experimented with II 11 hardy little orange tree which grown growl an nil fur far north ns ne New York There one are on Iong Island nut In the th agricultural department The tree tre In III grown for tor hedges ht It lt Is I known own ns no the Trifoliate ornge aol It 1 h hns u II fruit trull about n big around n ole 1111 u ot fist but an as ns n vine vino fool soil HH ac bitter titter na ns gall It Il 1 le 18 however n ft perfect In l Ic really nn nil orange although not lIot fit It for eating i They rhey took thin thie tree tore stool and It I to tho the tHet orange tree o ot of Florida anti after many trial they Uey hone have now tIOW pro ProS produced produced the trees Irel which will wilt grow Brow and 1111 fruit trull miles north The Tho new orange orane In too three Inches In diameter It Is a R good eating orange although a n little hitter bitter It can enn be toe prop I logo I d 11 by b budding can con bo Ito en lI I l throughout he the por portion tion of ot tho thoc United States Our naval all nil come COllie from n a tree tra which wa Kent here troll train and atoil grown In inthe I the thu agricultural hot That tree wan tho the father of or tho the lIel orange tn of ot Theco The so will bo bl the fathers of ot orchards nil all over oer the tho south Kauth Ig AND lOMI In III theM theoe other lIther varieties of ot orange oranges were produced Tho The trotH tram the union unton loud hud to 10 lie be Planted and as ILK It tako as ns long lon for un an tree to to yield fruit trull as It doc dop tot for to I an 1111 apple tree It U was wull VI end eral before lefore the know whether It lout had anything or not 1101 TIle The t fruitIng on me this thin year On 01 wm was the Hunk flunk orange nil after the late nu fot of I 1 Iha ha e C already written Another nother was vae an all of ot Just JUHt about the size III e of or the Rusk Ruek nu k orange This Tille orange Is IN n nt sour Hour as toe a it lemon IrIt It t antes not nOI tin 1111 JIlt hIl one DOC nil having u IL flavor slightly different dirt pre lit from the lemon It has more Juice than limn a n lemon of ot the lie same eane etze III u n all aLo can be seen Keen by a ii 1 photo photograph graph I give Hive of or several tubes tithes showing the amount of ot juice In each fruit This can he be grown wherever the Husk orange run coin lIn be grown and It will give olve orchards to 0 mil millions lions of f n mil IBB throughout the tho where whore lemons cannot now be grown Another of ot the trees by marrying Iho the Trifoliate orange with tile the orange hue ban a n fruit which might bo ho called culled the tho orange or the orange fruit II U tile the size elze 0 of or a 1 large orange om II gl but It like a II orosa between the HIP or stage and tho thin It Il will viii grow In one and will make n II nOne t fine One breakfast food rood In short horl from roni tho the union of or two varieties of or trees ono one lI I more than u a 1 bush bunh ho cli and the tho other n a line hinc orange tree have been produced three varieties of ot trees tree which will vilt give Jh th Ih the gt eater part hiatt of or the south oranges orange oran and lemons fAN you over olor seen een a n Tangerine Ill lie or It ID l I n IL little orange f with n ci loose loo e HO en to It that It Is some acme sometimes times timeR exiled celled the kid glove orange Tho Thou skin kin can easily be hI taken off and the Ihl of or the tho fruit PUtted JUIl I apart ant oaten outon You VIm know also RIM th ibm grape fruit or which wh hits 1100 a null nold I hash Monti lIo but hut a I bitter hiller ln ln ith Ih fruits ore sold nold In the baskets Dr Drebber Drebber V ebber and hU hut married thin little Tangerine orange two to the lie I and they havo hlo produced a n which although not so 0 large largen n All Os the Is iii of n to good I alze It hUll huH a 0 loose skin so Ita o that you pan can tear It off oft with your our fingers o as S you I nn lilt that of or the tho Tangerine rang Tho The lIt h nf or the new ne oringe Is III more delicious than that lout of lit the tue p I iHo nho Itself It It sweeter than thou the th end mora more Juicy anti and acid than the tho Tangerine and It II contains the th bitter principle of or the tho grape fruit slightly reduced It might bo Ito railed a n kid kill glove grape grote fruit trull SAMS S IS Ni w BAUma These e products me site among the mo mot t prominent of or Uncle new nw They Thoy are Aro really the tho output of or the agri agricultural cultural department ant any anyone one good healthy Infant of or kind l Is more to the tile country than tIle the co cost COlt t of ot for rOT a n number of years In the tue marriage ige of at cottons collons Dr Webber hll hia a united the long staple sea BOH M Island Inland I cotton the Iho short staple upland cot cotton cotton cotton ton and Ol loots has produced a 1 medi medium um lion staple pie cotton colton which will nil grow on OTI the uplands Tho rho Egyptian I cotton cattaIl has luita hasal al alo aio o been beon cross bred with Uncle Hams Ham product and the probability Is lot that bitt wo we will raise Urn the lie worth of ot l cotton cot Ion which wn II o now 1101 Import upon our oils own toil poll J I have as n a to the Iho which hove have been heeti In tobacco toba co breeding and un IIA unto anto to 10 the Improvements made III In our corn corll In III thou the plant breeding houses of ot the department here I have hivo examined the crossing of or the Texas blue grass 11 with the Kentucky blue grass Krall whereby wh lehy they hope hOJO to 10 get a I rich lieu sod nod which will vill grow glow nil iou over oer the south In Ito the samu sarno hou II eu they are bre with and antI also nl lettuces and different varieties of at lowers which have u II com COill uiS OP OF Till One of or the strange things thing 8 Is III tho the mm mOl siege of ot the Iho lettuces There are two tso commercial arletIs In lii tho iio United one Oil of OV which la is sold east ast of or the Alle Aile and tho lie alia west the Ihl Litter latter Ia ItOI being railed about Orand ld Id The lettuce Is l in n a I loose lettuce with long loose loo o loaves leaves de do delicious I licious to 10 taste The Tho lettuce Is Ito Isu Isn u n head lettuce 1411 and 1 In III much better hetter In some reelects for tur the tile table tab II Dr II B T r F tho iou duet chief of ot the tho bureau of ot plant industry Hist out In his hili mind what a t hn lie I t would oti Id be b An nn lettuce lellure for the tie market and he hr then told tole his to go to A work vork nor see Hee If Ir thuy could not bolt produce that lettuce by crossing the tho different varieties They fhe have married tho tue past east pastern era ern anti and western lettuces and they think they tile arc III LI ro rapidly milieU rot tutu producing ucla g their heir t Ideal I Indeed I saw 1111 many bends of ot to ta today tad today day d In the plant breeding hotbeds uh ch seemed emed almost at most perfect p and combined I the lie excellencies of ot both varieties I In Iii talking with Ir Galloway the lie oth other other I er fOr day tin he told mo tIle df dr nomo experiments lie 11 had bInd mno with vIolets violet lie Be 0 wanted to show how that hut money mOllo could be made by raising them If It they were properly handled so 5 I he established o u a commercial hotbed and set et out plants As An th thy y grew he found round that some Home produced only one blossom and that others had hada I a II huh half dozen or more that some SOllie flow low 0 ered COCcI III In the when they boy I the tho biggest prices aid aud others other whan there thore uati thu Iho least t demand ll lie Me l lI a II easeful election of und otHer alter a fI I time title violets which Just at lit the Ille right tIme and In the hang lar fit ost number pur ier plant The Tho the tue hotbed paid a n good dividend lie HI Io had then shown the tho success of ot his hili CX ex and antI sold out oUI Ills III successor pall paid no attention to 10 plant n anti and andIn 1111 I In lii u I short tune time ho he wn no noose OUt Of at Ui te 00 lv 10 1 H tn bar bors TUft ru tAIJI ll UP TUB POTATO Among the most romantic stories atones of ot plant production Is that hoist of at the thu 1110 olo Potatoes S tire are ordinarily pin vo by hy planting tho tile potato 01 U rut of ot It A potato plant however sometimes produces pro a 1 seed need which may mayb maybe b be planted arid and nuy nl rita y yield n a anew new ne variety bout About n II mun mUll named II a Goodrich Quod rich with wild Peril vl sien n nod Chile potatoes He lIe grim grew reed hogs from those loose plants for 01 A n number of or years and finally from them thoin produced prod lice two varieties which were vere fairly vala able one of ot which wee was known rs rA the Chili In Iti 1860 Mr Ir Albert of ot Vermont planted omo seed of ot a II Chili iii I I plant 01 t and one of ot tho Iho 0 re no results outs was Willi the tho Early arlY l V Wilen hen this thin WOH va put hut on oil the tho market It IL brought fabulous prices alit It I Is still one of or hut tho most niost valuable potatoes we wo have haveIt It was the I ar Hose which was WIlS thou Iho mother of nt the tilt BurbAnk potato which won WitH Slumlord named after luther Burbank who was a n schoolboy whim when ho lie discovered It lt Young had what thoat had ilaI done donI In producing the Kaily Itose tose and ho he hal hail heroine become generally lell lellIn In Ito of ot all 1 One day tny while walking through II u Hold 1101 1 of at fuse HolO potatoes he lie conY A n seed pod on all one of lit tIll plants lie watched It carefully thinking he lie would save the hoe seed peed and plant them Tho rho field 1 was tItto Ill near where ho went wont to school allol he Ito examined the hoe pods oda soul tiny day to day until they should be he ripe rip He lie wase specialty specially anxious ious bun about ii bou t them theun ff although such MUch i needs are ure often found on Oil other varieties of or potatoes they seldom occur on the tho Hose Itose Oslo One morning when he iou looked 1001 for till the pOll pod hi lie h found fotini It han Ills dis disappeared appeared Ills heart henrt foil fell butt but he lie Jot gut down on Oil Ills his hunted the tho Held field over He lie cried criel over lila hili loss toss rind Vent every ry day ota IIA for u a I we k to tho time Held looking for rol or this lois peed pod HP lIe 1 finally found U it about 16 IS feet hidden un under under Under der another vine itie Ine It had evidently been beon knocked 1 off ore by IJ someone pausing rapid rapidly ly I Hn I I a kept tho t lIe seed secil pot pOll rind and the tho next year planted tile the seed From Froll the tho lie plants which whirls grew ho he secured the one aile which produced the potato which Is III Isnow now lios known the tho lie world lorld Hl II i Imms As 11 ho grew greis older became Mill 11 I I I snore more Interested Iii t In I ii plant pitt ii t production ii e tion lion He lie worked for rOI a I time lit In the shops of ot time till Arne Ames Plow Ilos company In iso there thelo Invented Im Ins Improvements In lii woodworking machinery which weun BO too valuable that hint lila his em enu employers In offered to tn multiply his hili wages tunes times It If he lie would slimy with them He lie decided however hower that he lie cared moro more for fOI plant breeding titan for sloop shop work ork and went to Call Cali California fornia whose ho lie started n It log ing In farm He lie line lila farm Just joist Halla Cat Coi and upon It II has ilas hn produced sonic some of ot the tue plant wand wonders ers era of ot the world lIe He linn hiatt produced no end nil of ot vegetables rind and trees nt us II well as os new varieties of ot fruits He 1111 I he linn the plum to the iou apricot unit Hot got what Is III known as toe the Iho plum Ilium cot lie He has hits made n ft white blackberry ry 1 ant has hils taken time the common Held field ox eyed daisy and maria made time the Shasta daisy a IL beautiful many times limes as M large Tile The |
