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Like the auto and appliance busi nesses, the seed business is built on planned obsolescence. Burpee, who has developed hundreds of new varieties of flowers, often names outstanding new ones after celebrities. This calls for some careful catalogue descriptions. He likes to tell of the seedsman who named a flower after his mother, described it as "pure white, big and robust, with a wide, expanded form on stout stems...
Such X-ray mutations have formerly been of interest chiefly to geneticists (TIME, April 14), but the two unusual calendulas caught the eye of David Burpee, astute Philadelphia seedsman, who two years ago introduced a tetra-marigold produced with colchicine, a chromosome-multiplying chemical. Seven years of reselection (with no further irradiation) assured the permanency of the new strains, readied them this year for Burpee's market...
...What President Roosevelt called "a perfect stand of Cossack alfalfa" on his Georgia farm, was grown from seed raised by a Jewish seedsman...
Five years ago, a mustachioed British seedsman named Samuel Ryder put up a cup to be played for at two-year intervals by teams of British and U. S. golf professionals. Since then, British professionals have won once officially, once informally in 1926; U. S. professionals once. Near Columbus, Ohio, where the Scioto River winds through the narrow fairways and tall rough of the Scioto golf course 19 British and U. S. golf professionals played the third official series of Ryder Cup matches last week...
...Given by Samuel Ryder, British seedsman, in 1926, for U. S.-British professionals, the cup is played for in alternate years...
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