. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1140 The American Florist, /uly 9, would be necessary to really establish even the original Countess Spencer and the other two varieties introduced that year (1905) on a basis of fixity where they could be depended upon to come true from seed. SPOBTIVE TENDENCIES. The tendency of the original Count- ess and all her children to sport has been, however, really a blessing in disguise, for now, by careful work on the part of American and English growers, not less than 40-50 varieties have been fixed so that they come
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1140 The American Florist, /uly 9, would be necessary to really establish even the original Countess Spencer and the other two varieties introduced that year (1905) on a basis of fixity where they could be depended upon to come true from seed. SPOBTIVE TENDENCIES. The tendency of the original Count- ess and all her children to sport has been, however, really a blessing in disguise, for now, by careful work on the part of American and English growers, not less than 40-50 varieties have been fixed so that they come practically true from seed. None but the grower, or those in close touch with the growing of sweet peas, can have any idea, however, of the amount of patience and time Involved in this selecting and re-selecting. In the grandiflora type of sweet peas it was rarely that the Same sport or seedling of the same character oc- curred in more than one place. The same year that Henry Eckford intro- duced Duchess of Sutherland we in- troduced Modesty, and both proved identical. The same year House & Son, of Bristol, Eng., introduced Lord Nelson we introduced Burpee's Bril- liant Blue—both proved identical. The only other case of Identity in new varieties of grandiflora type which I can now recall is that after introduc- ing Aurora the next season in visiting my friend, the late Henry Eckford, at his home in Wem, he showed me where he had the same variety but had not up to that time introduced it. The fact that frequently the same colors in Spencer have occurred sim- ultaneously with different growers in England and in America shows al- most conclusively that these were all "creations" of Nature, or sports, rather than the result of cross-breed- ing by man, although, of course, such new varieties were only made pos- sible by the breaking up into different colors and advancing of the grandi- flora type by the late Henry Eckford, who well deserves his imperishable fame as t
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