256 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
PRINCIPLES OF HYBRIDISING HOLDING GOOD IN THE 
MAJORITY OF CASES. 
By Herr Max Leicutxin, Baden-Baden. 
1. The female parent gives to the offspring the form and shape of 
the flowers, also certain qualities. 
2. The male parent gives more or less the colouring of the flowers, 
and if it is richer and freer flowering than the female, this property is 
transferred to the offspring. 
3. Artificially produced offspring give larger flowers than either of 
their parents. 
4. The more distant the habitat of the species intended to hybridise, 
the more difficult they are to take each other’s pollen. 
5. The offspring becomes infertile and delicate if the form of the 
flowers of their parents is widely different in shape and outline. 
