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Professor Goodale and Mr. D. Ames, of the Harvard Botanic Garden, has just returned from a visit to Cuba where they have been examining the subject of the "sending" of the sugar cane. They have had an exceptional opportunity for investigating the flowers of the plant in January, through the kindness of Mr. E. F. Atkins, proprietor of a large sugar estate at Soledad, near Cienfuegos. Most of the flowers, however, were found to be too immature, but it was possible to point out to three men employed by Mr. Atkins on his plantation, the proper method of conducting...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...
...Donors. For Botanic Garden. $2,500. Edwin F. Atkins. For the study of the improvement of sugar cane and other tropical plants. $2,000 for a fellowship for 1899-1900, and $500 for preparation of a catalogue on sugar cane culture...
...sophomores won the annual cane spree at Princeton, winning the middle and heavy weight events...
...Sophomore class of Columbia University has resolved to do away with the annual cane rush against the Freshmen on account of the alleged brutality and danger incurred...