FROM THE MIRACLE 
DAHLIA GARDEN OF 
CURTIS REDFERN 
314 East Carrillo Street 
Santa Barbara, California 
2nd Year Mendelian Seedlings 
all have closed centers 
Greetings to flower growers everywhere: 
GREGOR MENDEL, known as the Father of Heredity, was born 
in Austria in 1822, and died in 1884. Much of his life was spent 
as a monk in tne little town of Brunn. He was very much inter- 
ested in Science, including Botany and Biology, and carried on 
experiments with common garden peas by in-breeding or self- 
pollination. He kept copious records of his experiments, and 
later covered the subject in a small pamphlet read before his 
local scientific society. This was filed in its archives, and only 
brought to light about 1900 by several other scientists, and in a 
few years, it had been tested and given to the world as the 
Mendelian Law. It is doubtful if Mendel knew of the existence of 
chromosomes and hormones which were discovered later. 
