. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igoS. The American Florist. 547 Kiii'liiuitross. Aliviidy wo are bofiimiins to lienr from tlio "only" Wliito chantivs-i. IJotli Koslon Market ami Lieutenant I'eaiv, in the bands of com- petent si'owers. are showing fine staying qtnilitios and an alinmlance of l>looni. and seem far from heins counted out as pay- ing conimcri'ial whites. Beacon is mak- ing a groat rim for first place in the scar- let varieties. This is no reflection on Victory, Hod Chief and other varieties, \vhich have gooil reco
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igoS. The American Florist. 547 Kiii'liiuitross. Aliviidy wo are bofiimiins to lienr from tlio "only" Wliito chantivs-i. IJotli Koslon Market ami Lieutenant I'eaiv, in the bands of com- petent si'owers. are showing fine staying qtnilitios and an alinmlance of l>looni. and seem far from heins counted out as pay- ing conimcri'ial whites. Beacon is mak- ing a groat rim for first place in the scar- let varieties. This is no reflection on Victory, Hod Chief and other varieties, \vhich have gooil records. Easter Lilies from Seed. Much interest lias been shown in tlio past few years in this country in the production of lilies from seed, experi- ments of the Department of Agriculture in this diveotiou heretofore referred to in the pages of The Florist haying given an impetus to efforts along the same line, .\mongst those who have carried on tliese experiments is Fred- erick C. Bauer, of Govanstown near Baltimore, who has been very suc- cessful in producing some fine flowers, homogeneous in type, thick in texture, and borne on stems of good height and strength. The illustration herewith shows one of his best plants. The first seed came from the original crossing of L. giganteum and L. mulitiflorum. The seed of the earliest flowering specimen resulting was sown and the flowers it produced were fertilized with pollen from a good form of L. Harrisii (from Bermuda stock 1. Then two of the re- sultant plants, which proved the best and earliest, were again crossed, the strongest being selected as seed-bearer. One plant produced from this crossing—? that shown in the engraving, made from a photograph—produced stems five feet foul' inches high, and bore 42 perfect flowers. Fourteen of these flowers were permitted to produce seed, which, planted in turn, gave a large number of plants which have flowered abundantly. The type was by no means fixed, great va- riety bei
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