Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-21

! Weber. Cache, BOXelueri lJdNiS' :.
Grand, Carbon. Beaver. looeie anu SUI
Lake were well represented. u
In n brief address, President DUNN
paid a high compliment to the unselhsn
| and life long laborB In tho interest," VI
horticulture OF Hon. Thoma Juaa' pIos
| dent of the state board or hortlcuteuie'
| He had devoted the best Part OF ms llie
| to promote the growth Oh the iiui'
| Industry in Utah.
| NURsERYMAN AND FRUIT GROW
! Err.
! Charles Smith OF Smith Brothers
/ Nursery, Centervlle, began the SESSION
with brief address on the relatiouss :,
! of tho "Nurseryman and Fruit Grower
| The humorous and pathetic sides OF
! the business were etold as Mr.. Smlth
| only could tell It, and kept his auul-
! tor convulsed with laughter. Cothlns
! down to the serious question OIL otcilaiu
| planting. he suggested that the pros
! pective fruit grower should before or
| derinv his trees find out what kinds of
| ernie his soil is best adapted for ana
! then order lntelligently of rellaple
| nurseryman, get the best trees TO be
! had. then plant and care for them prop
erly r,o,i.
| County Nurseries, and NJ B. Sowles,
manager Utah Nursery company OF this
| county further discussed the nursery
! business and its diculties, urging that
| nurserymen and fruitgrowers should
| work together for the Improvement OF
| horticultural conditions,
INSPECTION OF NURSERIES
Mr.. w. o. Knudson. one OF Brigham
| Citv's most successful fruitgrowers.
| and Boxelder county's fruit tree m
| spector, delivered an address on lne
| inspection of nursery stock, ana or
chard trees. The home nurseries are
| as a rule free from disease or insect
| bIetnish. but a great percentage OF the
| imported nursery stock was regularly
| condemned for some disease or insect
| nest. Were none but home grown trees
| SIT out In Utah orchards, the state
would remain comparatively tree from
| the troubles which menace the NOUS
| try IN other states.
Mr.. u. II. Bower, Of the Utah county
nurseries. of Provo, led In the discus
! sion of the duties of nursery inspec-
| ton.
PLANT BREEDING.
Prof. William Homer of the B. Y.
| University. Provo, discussed the ques-
ton OF plant Breeding as Applied
| to horticulture" He began his paper
with the following quotation from
Prof. l.. H. Bailey:
"The opportunities of the horticul-
turalists are Just beginning to be rec
ognized. Most of our work has been
| temporary and of A superficial charac-
| ter. Real horticultural research is on
| ly begun.
On the biological side. the concern or
| the horticulturalist is two foid. 10
make two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before; to make each
blade better than its parent We're. Our
| definite and methodical work has been
| directed chiefly toward the former END.
We have tried to increase production
by augmenting the capabilities OF the
SOIL and by extra care or the plant.
We shall now attempt similar effort by
making better plants OF course there
has been remarkable progress in var
| ietjes of plants; but for the moIt part
ii has been fortuitous and unpredicat-
ed. The new plant breeding Is more
important than the old insistence on
fertilizing of the land. But we are
even vet mostly concerned with the
production of concrete varieties fol-
! lowing the age-long conception that
species and varieties are entities, very
likely we shall find that the best plant
breeding is that which produces grad
ual improvements inside the variety
untn a variety shall develop into some
thing better than itself. We shall work
out such constants that each grower
will know how to Increase the efiiclen-
CIV of crop. as well by breeding the
plant as by manipulating the soil. The
| grower will not need to rely solely on q
| professional maker of new kinds
ON technical horticultural practise
| the most definite progress seems to be
| making In the general subject OF plant
! breeding. Many persons, particularly
| I'm AGRICULTURAL colleges, experiment
| stations and national department OF
| agriculture are devoting q good part
az their energies to this work. The
subject IL passing out OF the stage OF
mere amateurism into serious guest for
| large economic results; we are hoping
| 10 mass from fruitless emperilism into
| the discovery and application of laws
| that govern more or less definitely the
making of new kinds OF plants
horticultural novelties are steadily
bolng introduced from foreign coun-
tries and disseminated not only by
gaodsmen and plantsmen, but also
through the agencies OF botanical gar
| deny the United states department OF
| agriculture and private establishments
| OF wealthy individuals.
within our national boundaries we
have almost all possible ranges OF
| climate and soil. Through the intro.
| auction OF new plants 1t is expected
that we will become independent of
other nations as far as the most I'M
portant plant cultures are concerned.
| AZ examples Of the transplRnting or
profitable plant industries from foreign
countries 10 our own in recent years
we have the establishment Of the Al
Rerian and Arabian date palm, and tho
Smyrna fig industries In Arizona and
California,
Perhaps the most rapidly growing
need for plant introduction has arisen
from the demand created by the in.
creasing number OF plant breeders IN
the country. for plants 10 be used for
crossing purposes.
Plants gathered from as widely sep
arated regions as siberia. France and
california have been used in the pro-
duction OF some OF Luther Burbank's
most remarkable hybrlds
The most effective and best equipped
organization In the world for secur-
ing for plant-breeders seeds which
win assist them IN their work OF Great
ing new and valuable plant forms, IL
the Office OF seed and plant introduce
ton, located at Washington, ID. G, This
organized branch OF the government
department OF agriculture has n corps
OF botanists, plant distributors, plant
propARators, record clerks. field aids,
etc, together with agricultural OK
plOrers IN many foreign countries ana
correspondents all over tho world, who
are engaged IN tho work OF discover
Ing new and valuable plants, importing
them into the United states ana plac-