Hybridizing HAints for B eyinnent 
PART TWO 
In continuing this article on hybridizing hints I want to stress the fact as I did last 
year that these are strictly—“Notes and Ideas,’ and while they are my own ideas as to 
varieties and crossings, I am, at your request taking up where I left off on the idea 
last year and I hope that you may find some ideas and theories of use. Copies of last 
years article are still available and will be mailed to you upon request. 
PARENTS IN GENERAL 
I do not believe that anyone can say which is the “Best” parent for any certain 
color and probably all of us who hybridize have certain varieties we like to use and which 
we think are very good. Following is a list of varieties that I think should give good 
results in each given color line. 
PINK: SQ72 is already a proven parent and its offspring Pink Formal and Pink 
Tower are already well known and are proving fine breeders. Pink Tower 
producing some fine new things for me. All of the Hall pinks of course hold unlimited 
possibilities with Dolly Varden, Heritage and Hi-Time giving wonderful seedlings. Love 
Story with its smoothness and unexcelled form is producing fine seedlings both as pod 
and pollen parent. Chiffon Pink is a very fine parent and the new Cloudcap should 
be excellent as it has good branching, tall stalks and large flowers. Most of the pinks 
seem capable of producing an almost endless variety of colors from pure white through 
all the ranges of pink as well as Apricot, Orange, Yellow and Orchid colors. I have 
found that Pink Salmon, Salmon Shell, Tally Ho, Color Carnival and Apricot Supreme 
give the best range of colors with the highest percentage of good seedlings. Twilight 
Sky and Love Story have so far given the highest percentage of pure pinks. Of course 
there are a great many varieties that probably carry the Gene for these pinks that 
haven’t as yet been tried. For instance my own results with Sharkskin which when 
crossed with SQ73 produced a great many pinks. Many of these were quite off the 
Norm, being rich cream toned pinks of thick Magnolia like texture and often with 
yellow beards. Pathfinder is producing some fine things both for the Whitings and 
for myself, these are the largest and most full bodied flowers I have seen in pink and 
are very smooth I do think that the pinks of today can be placed in three classes. 
All of the above might be classed as translucent pinks and it seems to me that they 
very definitely show their relationship. The second class I would say to be the Sass 
pinks for they seem to be of a slightly different type the color smoothly infused in 
and enameled on. The two smoothest colored pinks I have seen to date being Sass 
48-196 and 50-227. Since these stem from Flora Zenor it seems that Flora should 
not be ignored as a parent. Among my own varieties Snowblush is of this type and 
it is a direct child of Flora, These varieties seem to have a form of their own as well as 
a difference in color application. In this class too are both Pink Sails and Garnet Glow. 
They, too, stem from Dore as does Flora Zenor and seem to have the same color 
infusion and difference in form. In the third class I would place the Lapham pinks 
such as Paradise Pink. The Lapham pinks seem to have a still different application 
of coloring. On them the color seems to be very, very heavily powdered on and they 
have no translucent or transparent look nor an appearance of the color being infused 
into the petals. 
I believe that if you will study these different pinks you will be able to see 
this difference in color makeup and form and since each of the three types of pinks 
have desirable characteristics of their own I believe that a deliberate schedule of inter- 
breeding of these lines will produce further advancements. 1 feel that the pinks hold 
many other possibilities in breeding that as yet haven’t been brought out. Many breed- 
ers are working to get reds through the pinks and this I feel is highly possible. One that 
might well be used in this line is Garnet Glow which is from two brown red blends 
but which is itself deep Garnet with a heavy red beard. There is still another field 
that might be tried with the pinks which may open up vast new color vistas and that 
is the use of the pinks in Amoena breeding I have been combining certain of the pinks 
such as Tally Ho, Color Carnival and some other bitoned pink seedlings with definite 
amoenas and neglectas such as Wabash, Extravagana, Three Cheers, Louise Blake 
and the other new type amoenas such as Rhumba Rose, Pinnacle and Lamplit Hour 
I believe this work will bring several new color types. More might be said about this 
work in another year. Real Orange might well come through the pinks as highly 
orange tinted apricots quite often appear in the pinks and I have had one bicolor with 
orchid standards and pure orange falls. I understand Tell Muhlestein bloomed several 
orange seedlings from the pink lines last year so that goal may already be achieved. 
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