ON FLOWER POSSIBILITIES 



by crossbreeding and the fixing of characters by 

 inbreeding. 



And these fundamental principles of plant 

 development must be involved, in one degree or 

 another, in all successful experiments in the devel- 

 opment and fixing of new types of plant form or 

 leaf or flower or fruit. 



Let us now witness the application of the same 

 principles to the flower of the plant with reference 

 to the different characteristics of size and color 

 and odor and modified petal or stamen or pistil 

 that may be involved. 

 Producing a Desired Fragrance in the Flower 



Probably no other characteristic of the flower 

 is more highly prized than its odor. 



The rose and the carnation owe their popular- 

 ity as much to their fragrance as to their color and 

 form, yet there are numbers of very beautiful and 

 popular flowers that are quite without attractive 

 fragrance. There is no line of experimental work 

 with the flowers that should be more attractive to 

 the amateur than the development of fragrant 

 varieties of some of these odorless flowers. 



And fortunately it is an undertaking that may 

 be expected to produce very satisfactory results — 

 as immediate, as striking, and as valuable results 

 as from any other plant experiment. In any group 

 of odorless flowers, you may have the good fortune 



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