FOUR 



COMMON DOORYARD FLOWERS AND 

 THEIR IMPROVEMENT 



WORK ON THE VERBENA, THE PINK, THE PETUNIA, 

 AND THE GERANIUM 



MY most interesting verbena was the one 

 named the Mayflower. I use the past 

 tense because I am not sure that any rep- 

 resentative of the variety named Mayflower is now 

 in existence. I have introduced the plant through 

 a prominent horticulturist, but he apparently 

 found it difficult to reproduce it with sufficient 

 rapidity from cuttings and so attempted to 

 propagate it more rapidly from seed. 



Unfortunately the verbenas are so mixed a 

 tribe, and the various races so little fixed, that 

 they do not breed true from the seed. And so 

 when I myself sent to the horticulturist for a 

 sample of the fragrant Mayflower verbena a few 

 years later, I received a plant that had but a 

 reminiscence of the distinguishing quality of the 

 original. 



In the meantime, however, I had developed 



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