172 



when he orders a batch of high-priced 

 outings he expects and is fully entitled 

 to high-giade stock— cuttings that 

 have ben carefully selected and well 

 rooted— rcotPtl not by dint of the steam 

 pipe at so many thousands per week, 

 but by the natural process o£ keeping 

 the feet comfortably warm and the 

 heads i-col, to insure vigor iind hoallh. 

 Second, He expects from the variety 

 just what it is represented to be. In 

 other wouis. when a variety is a crop- 

 per, it should not be represented as 

 a continuous bloomer, that when its 

 calax splits at certain seasons or under 

 certain conditions, that fact should be 

 brought to the s\irtafe resardless of 

 losses or gains. 



Third, He expects the benefit of the 

 Introducer's experience without pay- 

 ing an additional price, often a heavy 

 one, for the experience himself. By 

 this I mean, that when a seedling has 

 been thoroughly tested and its require- 

 ments and peculiarities studied and 

 recorded, the introducer is morally ob- 

 liged to give the grower the benefit of 

 his own knowledge and experience. 

 The grower is entitled to such infor- 

 mation and it should uot be withheld 

 from him. A printed slip, bearing all 

 the cultural notes about the variety 

 introduced, should accompany each 

 aud every shipment. And 



Fourth The grower expects a 

 "square deal." By this I mean that 

 no carnation, no matter what its previ- 

 ous record, no matter how many points 

 it scored or how many medals were 

 awarded it— unless it maintains its re- 

 cord in all tile essentials up to the 

 time and including the season of its 

 dissemination, unless its vigor is in 

 no wise impaired, should see the light 

 of day. The introducer must be ab- 

 solutely certain on this point, he must 

 take nothing for granted, else the 

 grower is sure to be a very much dis- 

 appointed man. 



No More "Gold Bricks." 

 The growers' expectations, it seems 

 to me are within the bounds of reason 

 and need hardly be dwelt upon at 

 greater length here. Let a condition 

 of a thorough understanding and most 

 scrupulous honesty on both sides pre- 

 vail and we will no longer hear about 

 "gold bricks" and "suckers." 



After all there is a deal of truth in 

 the old saw of honesty being the best 

 policy. The most successful business 

 men of today are those who pursue 

 such a policy, whether it be in the dis- 

 semination of seedlings or breadstuffs. 

 The child that burns its fingers fears 

 the fire, so does tlie grower steer clear 

 of the man who sells him a winner and 

 gives him a "gold brick" instead. It 

 is to our own interests, whether we 

 are hvbridisers, dealers or mere agents, 

 to discourage worthless varieties, 

 stamp them out— root, branch and all 



if we wish to see the most important 



branch of our business thrive and de- 

 velop without hitch or hindrance. 



Please find inclosed $1.00 for a year's 

 subscription to HORTICULTURE. I 

 find HORTICULTURE a paper which 

 I could not be without. Wishing you 

 success, I remain 



Yours respectfully, 



HARRY DIETZ. 

 Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 31, 1907. 



HORTI CULTURf: 



SPECIAL POINTS ON CARNATION 

 HYBRIDIZING, 



Ucad hQtuve the Ciiniatlon Society at 

 Wnsblnyton, l)y K. Witterstuetter. 

 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- 

 men: Some sixteen years ago, when 

 I first undertook the work of hybridiz- 

 ing the tarnation, I had very litflf 

 knowledge of Nature's law regardins 

 the results to be expected from cros.;- 

 ing the standard commercial varieti^'s 

 of that date: and concluded that ex- 

 periments with a complete record ol 

 the parentage and the results wu;- 

 necessary. As regards color, si/.\ 

 stem, form, habit, freedom, etc., 1 

 found while we had some very gdoil 

 seedlings that pointed up well m 

 everything except color, and color be- 

 ins a very important factor in a com- 

 mercial carnation, that we got quite a 

 few variegated purples and off color.s, 

 and very few identical to the pare:it 

 color. I, therefore, concluded that it 

 must be Nature's law in plant life Uie 

 same as in the human race, and thai 

 blood would tell and future breeding 

 has been carried on with that point in 

 view, namely, scarlets in a race by 

 themselves, white in theirs," and so on. 

 always selecting for futuje work that 

 which came nearest to an ideal as to 

 color aud commercial value. 



Some have held that by foUowiug 

 this method you lose constitution. We 

 have proven this, to our own satisfac- 

 tion, to be untnie if a selecting of vig- 

 orous parents is made for the work. 

 This opinion may have arisen from the 

 fact that a very brilliant scarlet has 

 no vigor to back it up, our most vigor- 

 ous scarlets being only a fair or dull 

 red; and if a good constitution and a 

 brilliant color are combined, the re- 

 sult is apt to be a slow and shy bloom- 

 er, not up to the commercial require- 

 ments. As most of my endeavors have 

 been devoted to the scarlet race- 

 amounting to about one-third of the 

 number of seedlings raised— I have 

 taken the pessimistic view, that it 

 would be an impossibility to produce 

 a brilliant scarlet of free blooming 

 quality, backed up by a vigorous con- 

 stitution. Of late years, however, I 

 have observed that this will not be an 

 impossibility. 



In breeding for form we have always 

 selected those that have reproduced 

 themselves in that point for two or 

 three generations, from one or the 

 other of its parents, preferably the 

 seed parent, and using the same as a 

 seed parent. In pink we do not hold 

 so closely to the color line, but are 

 ver>' particular that whatever color is 

 used be of good, clear, strong and live- 

 ly tone, not subject to fading into dull 

 colors, or easily affected by the sun. 



In breeding for size, we do not hesi- 

 tate to use a small flowered variety as 

 to a seed parent, provided its progeni- 

 tors of the first and second generations 

 past were large flowered varieties; as 

 a pollen parent likewise, if it has ail 

 the other attributes of a good commer- 

 cial variety. 



In breeding for stem and calyx, 1 

 like to select a variety that has in- 

 herited these good points from one or 

 two generations past, with the bloom 

 bordering on the semi-double, or not 

 too many petals to insure a good set- 

 ting of seeds; also guarding against 

 parents with flowei-s containing too 



(Cnntinurii on pa^t 174. i 



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