Florists' review (microform) (1912) (16696915122)

Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_40_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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24 The Florists^ Review May 10, 1917. BAIT THAT DRAWS CROWDS. Tlio projiTOissive rctniler, over on tlic lookout J'or ideas tliat Avill make liis Aviiulow (iisjilays out of the ordinary and tlierel'ore attractive and valuable, will ;ili;ireciate the jiossiljilities sui:<j;e.sted by tlie aeeoni)ianyin<; illustrations of the I'^a.ster liower disjday at the JMiipji.s Con- servatory, !S(dienlev i)ark, J'ittsbur^h, J'a. The display' Mas called "The Sprinjjtime of Life," and )»ro\ed an attraction that drew thousands of I'itts- burj^heis to the conservatory. .1. \V. .Tones, foreman, discovered sev- eral years ai^o that it took moi-e tlian an ordinary arianj^enient oi' flowers anil plants to excite much interest in the conservatory amonj^' the )ic!ople of i'itts- bnrL;li. ("onse(;uently in makinjjt dis- I'lays for sjiecial days, such as Easter. he has conceived an(l executed novelties whiili have accomplished their purpose of brinnin.u crowds, Avho, after they had arrived, \vere more delighted Avith the llowers tlian th(\v realized they would bo. I'-aster this year came only a few days before the oiieninrogress, while nearby were three boys lishing in a basin con- taining goldfish. And aiouml the wholt>, or nearly so, was arranged the liower and plant display. In speaking of the display, ^Ir. Jones declared it had eclipsed all his jirevious tdforts, causing (juiti- a sensation, not only among the children, but the grown- ui)S as well. The ))lants which formeil the bacds- ground for tlie ball jjark Avcre of the following varieties: Columbines, wis- tari.a, Azalea mcdlis Anthony Koster, Khododendron I'ink I'earl, Deutzia Lemoinoi, lilacs, yellow marguerites, sweet ))eas, magnolias, nasturtiums, (iernian iris and hydrangeas. Beds of relargoniuiii Kaster (Jreeting and Paul Cramind geraniums, bordered with arte- misia and shrubs, ornamented the fore- ground. Outdoor sports make a great appeal to the average American. Such a liisplay as this, even on the much smaller scale necessary in a show window, would at- tract the attention of everyone who is a lover of sjiorts. And the person Avho likes outdoor games is a ))erson tem))era- mentally fitted to like everything that jiertains to the open, esj)ecially that which is beautiful. Aside from their beauty, the greatest ajipeal of llowers is the suggestion they make of nature at its best. Conse- (;uently lovers of nature, of the open— and there is no one who needs so much outdoor space as the baseball enthu- siast, be he fan or player—are all flower buyers in embryo. A window^ a)i)>ealing to tludr greatest outdoor interest is bound to be impressive. ESSENTIALS OF HYBRIDIZATION. fl'xtracts from a paper by Floyd Bralliar, of Nasliville, Tcmi., read at the second annual con- veiitiiin of the Tennessee Slate Florists' Asso- ciation.) Where the object sought is to pro- duce in greater degree some character- istic already possessed by some indi- vidual plant, it should be carefully crossed with another plant of the same family that is as nearly like it as it is possible to find. Mendel, a monk who did a great deal of plant breeding, announced it as a law that where two parents are allowed to breed, one-fourth of the offspring will be like one parent and one-fourth like the other parent, and that seed from either of these fourths will come true to name and will be like the parent whose character it followed; that the remaining half of the offspring of such a union will partake of the character- istics of both parents in varying de- grees, and that it is among this half that we must look for improvements. In the second generation a certain fixed proportion of the seeds of these plants will revert to each of the original par- ents, l)Ut a portion of them will be like their OAvn parent. By selection for a few generations, fewer and fewer of the seedlings will revert and the variety will become fixed. The announcing of this law has greatly lessened the labors of the breeder by telling him which of the offspring to throw away as being worthless to him. He no longer bothers with the half that is like one or the other of the original parents. An Experiment with Cannas. This law seems to be pretty generally o))erative where crosses are not too vio- lent, but where the jtarents are too widely different the law is by no means fixed. A concrete example of this method of procedure is before you. I have a canna with green foliage that bears floAvers that are almost white. This canna has great vigor, a quality no other Avhite canna possesses. I was desirous of producing tAvo results. First I desired to produce a canna that avouIcI bear pure Avhite floAvers; secondly, I desired to produce a Avhite canna Avith bronze foliage. Accordingly, a pink canna of equal size and vigor, Avith good bronze foliage, Avas selected. You see before you eight seedlings of this cross, using the white canna as the mother plant. Four of them liaA'e bronze foliage and four of them have green foliage. The other seeds failed to groAv. Should these eight plants prove to be illustrative of all the results of such crosses, two of them should be white cannas like their mother, witli green foliage; two of them should be pink cannas Avith bronze foliage, like their father; ono should be a pink canna with green foliage, one 9 Avhito canna with bronze foliage, and the other two should produce flowers that are of a lighter pink than their father but not so nearly white as their mother, while one should have bronze foliage and the other should have green foliage. A Problem in Probabilities, Unfortunately, all of the seed pro- duced by the cross did not grow, and these seedlings may not, in all proba- bility will not, follow this order. Most likely they will not produce any new variety at all, but half of them Avill be like each parent, or inferior to it. But
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