. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igri. The American Florist. 353. GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB OF BOSTON AT B. HAMMOND TRACY S GLADIOLI FARM, 'WENHAM, MASS. parental form in its integrity. Nature, liowever, has been kind enough to en- courage these outrages upon lier laws by every now and again departing from them herself in the way of spon- taneous "sports," which serve as start- ing points for the selector, and are, indeed, at the bottom of much of the diversity we enjoy. In making these starts man is utterly powerless, all he can do
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igri. The American Florist. 353. GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB OF BOSTON AT B. HAMMOND TRACY S GLADIOLI FARM, 'WENHAM, MASS. parental form in its integrity. Nature, liowever, has been kind enough to en- courage these outrages upon lier laws by every now and again departing from them herself in the way of spon- taneous "sports," which serve as start- ing points for the selector, and are, indeed, at the bottom of much of the diversity we enjoy. In making these starts man is utterly powerless, all he can do is either to keep his eyes open for natural variation in the wild plants or to sow on a large scale and profit by any break which turns up. Once Nature affords such an opportunity, she is usually liberal in further de- partures in the progeny, and so prog- ress is made. In the process of hybri- dizing, however, i. e., the combination of the petuliarities of diverse species or even genera, man is only indebted to Nature's endowment of the plants concerned with the capacity of com- bining the potencies in the seed cells and contriving some mode of archi- tecture, so to speak, which permits of a new structure on the lines of a com- promise, often of great beauty. This we may particularly see in the orchid displays, and also in those of the won- derful tuberous and other begonias, which are really mixtures of three spe- cies in many cases, and of two at least in all. It would be an extremely in- teresting feature of tlie International Exliibition of next year if, already suggested, the normal progenitors whose union gave the starting point in these and other cases could be shown side by side with their marvelously diversified progeny, as exemplifications of what human selection can effect in a comparatively short period as con- trasted with the results of aeons of natural selection. San Francisco, Calif.—E. Serveau has succeeded to the business of Ser- veau Bros., formerly o
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