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grounds, and which stand frost and other climatic influences the best. 

 All this necessarily limits our choice for seed and pollen parents, but still 

 there are some varieties left that fairly well fulfil our requirements. For 

 instance, I would cross ' Sir Joseph Paxton ' with ' William Lea ' to get dark 

 bizarres, and with 'Dr. Hardy,' 'Sulphur,' ' S. Barlow,' 'Lord Stanley,' 

 'General Grant,' and 'Garibaldi' to get red bizarres. For Bybloemens 

 I would use ' Stockport ' crossed with ' Parkinson ' or ' Chancellor ' 

 for bright purple, and with 'Talisman,' ' Universe,' ' Adonis,' and 'Mrs. 

 Jackson ' for dark purples. For Roses — the weakest class of all — I would 

 use ' Tryphena ' crossed with ' A. McGregor ' and ' Mabel ' crossed with 

 'Mrs. Collier' and also with 'Mrs. Barlow,' and 'A. McGregor' or 

 ' Tryphena ' crossed with ' Mrs. Barlow.' By selecting the best of the 

 resulting seedlings and continuing to work on the same lines I feel con- 



Garibaldi Lord Stanley 



Fig. 33. — Feathered Flowers. 



vinced that in the course of a couple of generations or so much progress 

 could be made. When I talk to flower lovers about raising Tulips and 

 tell them the time it takes before they bloom, the almost invariable reply 

 is, " Oh, I should never have patience to wait so long as that," to 

 which my reply is, " I am not ' waiting,' as they call it, especially for that, 

 but for everything else that makes one's life interesting, and that I am 

 content to wait so long as Providence gives me health and strength 

 to do." 



And now I shall briefly state the faults of the flower as an ordinary 

 tenant of the open garden. It is very susceptible of damage from the 

 weather, as rain, hail, frost, or strong winds all injure it. Rain rots the 

 petals, hail cuts and otherwise disfigures them, and hot sun flushes the 

 colour and causes the refined markings to disappear. Frost spoils the 



