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i WILT=-RESISTANT ASTERS 
put through the Workshop cycle periodically. All 
Bodger Aster introductions are developed in the 
+ Workshop, and each year’s stock seed comes directly 
} from a two-generation exposure to wilt of a virulence 
not found in ordinary soil. Your Bodger Aster seed is 
highly resistant. Even a few generations of increase 
in non- or lightly-infected soil will produce seed of 
decidedly less resistance. 
Resistance is hereditary, and so are plant and 
flower types. Bodger wilt-resistant strains are devel- 
oped from non-resistant, Commercial varieties, quite 
true to type—not from crosses between commercial 
and inferior, though resistant, types. Because we 
take pride in maintaining this accuracy of type, some 
varieties are not offered as wilt-resistant. At present 
we cannot make these resistant without sacrificing 

















essential qualities of type, and we do not recom- 
mend their use where wilt has been observed. Com- 
bining wilt-resistance with good commercial types is 
not easy; since there will always be some variation. 
Resistance is expressed as a percentage, a high value 
of which is required to qualify as ‘‘wilt-resistant.”’ 
The war against wilt is a continual one, compli- 
cated by bad weather breaks which sometimes wipe 
out a long chain of selection work. Among com- 
mercial growers, Bodger Seeds Ltd. is the pioneer 
in wilt work, and the only firm actively engaged in 
continual research. Your Bodger wilt-resistant Aster 
seed is of high quality, true to type, and as wilt- 
resistant as we can make it. Because of this research 
work, wilt is no longer a problem to the careful 
grower who makes sure he has resistant stock. 

