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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 1914 



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flowers; an eighth, the lavender anemone-flowered, 

 is at least a valuable freak. 



IV. Seedlings of cactus Phil May, an old sort 

 never much grown in the United States, but quite 

 as dwarf and good in it way as Rene Cayeux among 

 the scarlets. Phil May is a golden yellow highly 

 shaded to salmon, madder, and bronze, of medium 

 size, and a grand cut flower. 



Three worthless common single yellows, resem- 

 bling Topaz, and probably cross-fertilized from 

 Topaz by bees, as Topaz was in the garden by mis- 

 take the season the seed was grown from Phil May; 

 2 worthless single red, and one brick, as with the 

 yellows; 2 tousled scarlets, peony, poor; 1 vermilion 

 peony, very large, stems a yard long and wiry, very 

 good; 2 vermilion singles, one magnificent, better 

 in every way than the French novelty Carmencita, 

 duplicating that variety in everything even to the 

 yellow ring around the centre; 2 good crimson 

 decoratives, 5-inch flowers, bluish lustre on red; 1 

 lovely flesh colored decorative; 1 giant plant with 

 flowers almost like Clifford W. Bruton, but freer; 

 1 single pink cactus; 1 cactus-hybrid shape, very 

 large, very free, and bright vermilion scarlet on 

 long stems, a most valuable sort for cutting. Then 

 the following were all cactus shaped — 1 brownish 

 crushed strawberry, large; 1 pure bright rose, bril- 

 liant a fair-sized flower very lasting in water; a 

 canary yellow otherwise identical with Phil May; 

 a robust straight petalled terra cotta red, darkening 

 to maroon in the centre; a dwarfish plant bearing 

 profuse clusters of six pongee colored full flowers, 

 the petals straight and fine as toothpicks. This 

 last is a most lovely thing, and for its garden and 

 cutting qualities would alone be worth raising a 

 hundred seedlings to secure. 



Of the Phil May seedlings, 8 out of the 21 were 

 single, two of them good; 5 were decorative, all but 

 one very good; 5 were cactus, two of these about 

 average, two better, and one a decided novelty; 

 three were red peony-flowered, one of these good. 

 The only valuable singles of the year occurred in 

 this lot. Singles from cactus seed are generally 

 not a "break" in the florists' sense so much as a 

 "throw-back" or retrograde development. The 

 decoratives were true "breaks" and four out of the 

 five were splendid acquisitions. The pongee col- 

 ored cactus, the best thing of the lot, is a decided 

 cactus "break;" the other four good cactus seed- 

 lings almost duplicated Phil May in form and 

 growth, varying in color. Thus again (singles ex- 

 cepted of course) the best value in seedlings seems 

 to run in (a) the truest to type, and (b) the most 

 violent variations from type. 



The parent of the Phil May set of seedlings was 

 also an English dahlia, and grew for seed purposes 

 surrounded by English cactus sorts. Some Eng- 

 lish singles were also accessible to bees, although 

 not very near. The Phil May set of 21 scored a 

 high percentage of good things, and the seedlings 

 all showed wiry constitution and resistance to in- 

 sects and weather. 



• V. Seed of Rene Cayeux, hand fertilized with 

 cactus red sorts, but also exposed to bees: 1 star 

 flowered yellow; 1 shabby single yellow; 1 nice 

 star-flowered single pink on long stems; 2 single 

 crimson; 1 cactus crimson, semidouble; 1 full 

 double cactus of giant size, valvety shade of the 

 cardinal flower. 



Of the seven Rene Cayeux seedlings, only one was 

 valuable, but that superb. It followed its seed 

 parent closely in , type and constitution, improving 

 on size of the flower. 



Rene Cayeux is French. It was crossed with 

 English dahlias, undoubtedly, both by bees and 

 by hand. Out of seven, it gave one good seedling; 

 and as Rene Cayeux often bears abundant pollen 

 on old flowers in hot weather, it is not impossible 

 that bees made a self-cross on the parent plant 

 itself and so held the strain pure by inbreeding for 

 this one success. 



One year's experiments cannot, of course, afford 

 any conclusive data. But I think it at least prob- 

 able that unlike races of dahlias, even if cactus- 

 flowered, should not be bred together if one is to 

 get fine blossoms. Also that in-breeding of a strongly 

 developed individual plant will tend to weak seed 

 and seedlings, but some few striking successes in 

 flower with the surviving offspring. Also, that 

 there is no one-generation heredity in color in the 

 dahlia, whatever the color inheritance may develop 



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