. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. rethan the world of today cares for thepedigees of a reallv great man, yet itit interesting to know the varieties youhave crossed. Dont pick your seed pods too seeds a few days after (he young plants like your othercarnations grown from cuttings. Most ofthem will bloom in the field, and youneed only house such as you may seefit to grow on for further trial. Whileit has taken over thirtv years to pro-duce a White Perfection through cross-ing from such varieties as President De-Graw, Edwardsi and others, wc are to
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. rethan the world of today cares for thepedigees of a reallv great man, yet itit interesting to know the varieties youhave crossed. Dont pick your seed pods too seeds a few days after (he young plants like your othercarnations grown from cuttings. Most ofthem will bloom in the field, and youneed only house such as you may seefit to grow on for further trial. Whileit has taken over thirtv years to pro-duce a White Perfection through cross-ing from such varieties as President De-Graw, Edwardsi and others, wc are to-day progressing in this line as in allother fields, and with such varieties asAristocrat, Robert Craig, Winsor andothers to work on, someone in the nearfuture will produce a variety which willtake our breath away, just for a min-ute; a variety which will be furtheraheal of what we have today thanScott was over Grace Wilder, or En-chantress over Daybreak. Dont thinkfor a moment that this or the other va-riety of today is about ideal; we havejust CHRISTMAS .i.—Hy W. II. Donohoe, New York. will bry. The price is a second con-sideration. The grower who can pro-duce a flower wholesaling at 15 to 25cents the one who makes money, andnot the one who offers i, lYz and 2-centstock. The day of 25 in a bunch, tiedup to the necks with twine, is over—the twine is almost used up—and newvarictces are wanted, better flowers,larger, new shades, longer stems. Mme. F. Perrin in 1896 and duringthese 10 years there has been sent out inthis country 385 foreign varieties. By excluding Matchless, Mrs. and Beatrice May, for reasonswhich I will explain later, we have sevenremaining varieties, which does not ex-ceed two per cent. As to Matchless, Ican scarcely agree with Mr. Lemon asto its real commercial value. The flow- igo6. The American Florist. 983 ers are a beautiful crimson and of goodsubstance, which is entirely satisfactory;but if planted late it is inclin
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