Show for the deseret news on n raising garden vegetable seeds it is not without reason that there are many complaints on the failure of producing good garlen len vegetables from SEED and the truth is unless onless ass a little more attention is paid to growing of seed eed and raising good varieties ot of vegetables than the he methods adopted in a few years most of tho useful kinds grown in the valley will be what term run ont outs or become almost useless one of the greatest evils in raising SEED is the rowing lowi ng too many varieties of the same k hind ind tc gether or in th the e proximity of one another it is not lot unusual to a see e e in the corner of a lot the sugar beet and the red beet planted out for seed together agether og ether in another place the red and white onion nion and the varieties of the radish lettuce cabbage abbage and indeed almost every kind of vegetable seeds are grown in ia the same prat manner 11 in the he melon patch may often bo bc acau abo th rod md and yellow cored water melon with the citron ind and the musk melon with the several varieties of Canta cantaloupes anta lupes growing by the side of as many varieties arie ties of the squash cucumber and the like now it is a well known fact that all t the he varieties of f vegetables of the same natural nat ural family will mingle one with another when they are so situa ted ed that POLLEN or fertilizing deist con talked tahi edon op the anthers or male parts of the flower or of one variety is s brought in contact with the female organs of my adv flower of the same specie or natural family the POLLEN properly fine dust or meal ineal may be readily distinguished in the centre of the flower ind and is generally of a yellow color although in some iome flowers li it is red purple and various colors it ts particles are very smail and light when seen through brough a microscope and are of extreme hardness I 1 assuming different fortsas form sas round oval ac hence lence they are so organized as to be capable of eing being carried to a great dis distance tunce by the wind bees lees or any other winged insects that may hap pen ian to light ligh t on one plant in flower and carry it to 0 o that of another of the same i natural family NATURAL FAMILIES of plants so 90 called by bot iniste anisis are readily distinguished and are those thosa which resemble one another in external figure and utilities for instance all the cabbage tribe constitutes utes a natural family the pea another the bean another and the beet the radish lettuce fcc are ire also types of families by a little observation er it will be readily seen liow how liable it il is for the he different varieties to mingle one with another is as many kinds are daily covered in their different seasons of flowering with bees flies files and other winged insects that fly from one plant to another wd nd carry the pollen about their legs and bodies all ind d do the work vork of mixing the belec selecting ting of roots of vegetables for seed Is of great importance to the obtaining of a good stock of any I 1 lind kind of vegetables it being a well known fact that all varieties of vegetables have always a tendency to RETURN to their wild or primitive state and audit it is also well known all our best kinds have been brought to a state of per fechin by a high state of culture and the continual producing seeds from the best and truest roots and seed hence to obtain any vegetable from seed of any given quality it is necessary that we select for seed those that nearest approach uch such perfection that have been approved F for or i wio a f c lone I 1 g nolson hod onion to a good food well formed bulb u ab of t the h e same variety the for former being a type of an onion in it Us s wild state and the latter of one in its improved tate state the tap roots as the carrot the beet the parsnip and the like may also be readily distinguished by long handsome tapering roots having but few sp or small roots attached to them to those which abich have ill formed roots consisting of nothing but small straggling roots it I 1 is quite a mistaken notion that the often practiced methods of growing seed from ordinary roots is equally good with taking the BEST which should always be the rule adopted the planting small potatoes using all the good handsome onions and leaving the stiff necked ones for teed seed is a bad one the picking of the best pods of peas aas and saving the late ordinary ones for seed is another often practised practiced error but the cabbage is served still worse by cuttin cutting bout out the heart and putting the stalk out for seed let this system be followed a few years and the result would be that we will have small potatoes stiff necked onions late ordinary peas and cabbage stalks without heads in conclusion I 1 would recommend that as few varieties as possible be cultivated and those only that thrive well and yield a good crop the early june imperial blue and marrowfat peas are excellent xcell ent varieties the early york and drumhead cabbage the red in turnip r I 1 i radish the long scarlet carlet and the he white spanish radish for summer the long orange carrot the cup or marrow parsnip the imperial cabbage and selicia curled lelance I 1 the red top stone turnip and the ruta euta baga or sweede turnip I 1 the large larg e red and the large white portugal 0 onion nion are all good varieties well adapted to t the b a valley alley E S |