. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ETURNING from St. Louis after the meeting of the National Flower Show committee, held October 13, I stopped at the estab- lishment of the E. G. Hill Co., in Richmond, Ind. Since it is one of the larg- est places in that locality and there is nearly always something of interest there to show visitors, I try to call there at least once every year. This year I was doubly and trebly rewarded when I found there a wonderful selection of seedling roses. Mr. Hill informed me that about three years ago, before the stock of Ophelia was distributed at all in
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ETURNING from St. Louis after the meeting of the National Flower Show committee, held October 13, I stopped at the estab- lishment of the E. G. Hill Co., in Richmond, Ind. Since it is one of the larg- est places in that locality and there is nearly always something of interest there to show visitors, I try to call there at least once every year. This year I was doubly and trebly rewarded when I found there a wonderful selection of seedling roses. Mr. Hill informed me that about three years ago, before the stock of Ophelia was distributed at all in this country, he learned its wonder- ful value as a forcing rose and decided to make a great many crosses, with Ophelia in every case as the mother plant. A series of crosses were made, using as the pollen parent such standard va- rieties as Sunburst, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Ward, My Maryland, etc., and a most Q^reful record was kept of each cross and the resulting seedlings. Watching Results. Out of about 3,000 seedlings which resulted from these crosses, forty varieties were selected and are now in their sec- ond year. Some have propagated better than others and a total of about 3,000 plants are now in flower. Anyone who is at all interested in roses would do well to visit Rich- mond once or twice this year, to see how these seedling roses are pro- gressing. Personally, I consider Mr. Hill has had excellent results. There is hardly a poor thing in the forty varie- ties selected for the sec- ond year's trial and some of the types are simply wonderful; they will startle the country if they retain their pres- ent proclivities. I was 80 interested in them that I spent an entire By CHARLES H. TOTTY. day with Mr. Hill, tramping up and down the rose houses and studying these plants. Never before have I seen seed- ling roses that showed their parentage so strongly as do these of Mr. Hill's. Marked with Three Crosses. For instance, in the case of seedling No. 627, which I marked with three
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