. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igi2. The American Florist. 1277 price and interested in the dis- position of iilants and euttings should 8i\e this important feature eareful consideration. It is quite common to see novelties olTered the second year at prices much too low fcr a legitimate profit to the producer and often only a small jiirtion of the orders can be executed owing to i)ropagation difficul- ties, much to the exasperation of the customer and the dismay cf the dis- tributor. D. It is not, howe\er. with these easi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igi2. The American Florist. 1277 price and interested in the dis- position of iilants and euttings should 8i\e this important feature eareful consideration. It is quite common to see novelties olTered the second year at prices much too low fcr a legitimate profit to the producer and often only a small jiirtion of the orders can be executed owing to i)ropagation difficul- ties, much to the exasperation of the customer and the dismay cf the dis- tributor. D. It is not, howe\er. with these easily accoimtable cases that we desire to deal, but with casts u here normal self- fertilization may reasonably as- sumed, and yet in which the progeny are of the more diversified character. The comparatively recent introduction of a new strain of Polystichum aculea- tum. known as the "gracillimum" type is a case in point. We commence here with a wild plant of P. aciileatum. found in a Dorsetshire hedge as a huge specimen. Instead of the rol) ORCHID EXHIBir B'l JOHN C. CARBONS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO SHOW. Winner of Second Pri/.'. Fern Spore Variation. To those who devote their careful attention to the raising of varietal ferns from spores, phenomena are fre- quently presented of a very puzzling nature, and which certainly merit record, since it is by the accumu- lation of such records that any laws underlying these apparently erratic phenomena can ever be discovered. That spores or seeds from variable plants, possibly of mixed origin, should give rise to diverse progeny appears natural enough, says a correspondent of London (3ardeners' Magazine, hence in the case of seeds, cross-fertilization is the rule rather than the exception, and therefore the offspring are natur- ally the outcome of a sort of compro- mise between diverse parental influ- ences, with the result that adjustment of the diverse iiotencies occurs in dif- ferent degrees. With the fern spore t
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