98 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 



to test a theory which may be stated as follows: If flowering wood fronl 

 commercial plants is capable of producing plants able to throw more than 

 double the number of blooms produced from similar plants grown from blind 

 wood, is it not possible by selecting flowering wood from plants grown from 

 flowering wood to increase the flower-producing tendency in a distinct strain 

 of forcing plants? Beginning with blind and flowering wood from good com- 

 mercial plants of Bride and Bridesmaid in the Spring of 1897, plants were 

 grown and flowered in the Winter of 1897 and 1898 ; from these, as above 

 stated, cuttings were taken and flowered during the Winter of 1898-1899; and 

 from these, in turn, came the flowering plants for 1899 and 1900, and so on 

 for five years ; the flowering plants being from flowering plants of the previous 

 season in each and every case. The blind wood plants were treated in exactly 

 the same way, blind wood cuttings from blind w-ood plants produced the blind 

 wood plants for the succeeding season, and so on for the five years over which 

 the experiment has now extended. The following records for each of the 

 years 1899-1900, 1900-1901, and 1901-1902 serve to show how constantly the 

 flowering wood plants retain their supremacy over those grown from blind 

 wood : 



Record from December 1 to May 31, Inclusive. 



No. No. 



1899-190(1. Plants. Blossoms. Average. 



Bride, blind 15 190 12 2/3 



Bride, flower , 18 192 10 2/3 



Bridesmaid, blind 18 137 7 11/18 



Bridesmaid, flower 18 220 12 2/9 



Record from December 1 to May 31, Inclusive. 



No. No. 



19<Mi-lii(i]. Plants. Blossoms. Average. 



Bride, blind 17 59 3 8/17 



Bride, flower 4 110 27^/2 



Bridesmaid, blind 10 67 4 3/16 



Bridesmaid, flower 14 80 5 5/7 



Record from December 1 to May 31, Inclusive. 



No. No. 



1901-1902. Plants. Blossoms. Average. 



Bride, blind 14 80 5 5/7 



Bride, flower 16 124 7% 



Bridesmaid, blind K) 98 6% 



Bridesmaid, flower 12 136 111/3 



RECORD OF PLANTS SECOND YEAR ON BENCH. 



Record from December 1 to May 31, Inclusive. 



No. No. 



l!»ii(i-l!inl. Plants. Blossoms. Average. 



Bride, blind 14 193 13 1/14 



Bride, flower 8 223 27% 



Bridesmaid, blind 10 138 13 4/5 



Bride.smaid, flower 12 183 15% 



*Cutting plants set on bench in July. 



