Whether this actually helped in securing the 
“sets” may of course be questionable, but by 
doing this I haye had remarkably good luck for 
the past two years in making these difficult 
crosses. I might add that my reason for trying 
this was because I had noticed that in the case 
of most of the hybrids the stigma is usually 
quite large and it seems to me that the flower 
is hardly opened before the whole outer portion 
of the stigma becomes quite flaccid and there- 
fore possibly nonconductive to successful cross- 
ing. As to varieties that I have found best 
suited for crossing with the hybrids, I might 
name the following. White Waters which seems 
to be the easiest of all and which has set pods 
readily by any hybrid pollen from early Zwan- 
enberg up to the newest Craig hybrids. Purissi- 
ma seems to be another good pod parent for 
hybrids though I have been unable to grow it 
here. I have had good pods from Snow flurry, 
Chi Yun and other Purissima derivatives 
though. Blue Shimmer, Gloxinia, Stella Polaris, 
Galway Bay, Mt. Timp, Frosty Blue and Mul- 
berry Rose are all topnotch varieties for use 
as they are very easy to pod by any of the - 
hybrid, pollen—or have »been for, me.Hybrid + 
pellen’ is »very “fertile’,0n a ‘number- of the® 
flamingo or shell pinks, too. One seldom fails 
in’sbeing able to pod Overture, Pink Salmon 
and a, great many pink seedlings, especially 
those ‘derived from the David Hall line, are 
very easy to pod. I have had fair success with 
Flora Zenor but it is not as receptive as the 
others mentioned. 
As to podding the hybrids themselves, it is 
difficult to say what will or won’t prove a 
successful pollen parent, but I have found the 
most fertile pollen to be that from most any 
Aztec Copper derivative such as a number of 
the Kleimsorge blends or my own Honeyflow 
which seems to be the best I have found. Here 
again the shell pinks seem to work readily as 
Wm. Mohr seems to pod easily by use of Over- 
ture pollen. Plicatas, too, seem to work fairly 
well either as pod or pollen parent. In my own 
experience, Lady Mchr has been the easiest of 
any hybrid to pod and Capitola has had the 
most fertile hybrid pollen. 
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 breed- 
ers. Pink Tower producing some fine new things 
for me. All of the Hall pinks of course hold 
unlimited possibilities with Dolly Varden, Heri- 
tage 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 ex- 
cellent 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 
earry 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 pro- 
‘ducing 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 
ean 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 Snow- 
blush 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 appli- 
eation. 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 Laphaimn pinks 
such as Faradise Pink. The Lapham pinks seem 
to have a still different application of coloring. 
On them the color seems to be very, very heay- 
ily Bpibare on and they have no translucent 
or transparent look nor an appearance of the 
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colder, being infused into the petals. 
I believe that if you will study these differ- 
ent. pinks you will be able to see this difference 
in color makeup and form and since each of the 
three 2 Ge of pinks have desirable character- 
istics of. their own I believe that a deliberate 
schedule, of inter-breeding of these lines will 
produce ifurther advancements. I feel that the 
pinks hold many other possibilities in breeding 
that as :yet haven’t been brought out. Many 
breeders;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 combin- 
ing 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. 
RED: There are many fine reds and all of 
them hold great potentialities. Since the follow- 
ing are: already established as being good 
parents you can’t go wrong on them. Redward, 
Garden Glory, Lights On, Captain Wells, C. 
Gersdorff, Diplay, Ranger. Red Valor and 
Action Front as well as others. My own best 
results have come from working along several 
lines. at times inbreeding and at times out- 
breeding or combining several different lines. 
I do consider some varieties unfailing parents 
for reds—vyarieties that are not themselves red. 
These are Casa Morena, Cape Bon and Jasper 
Agate. Rocket and Damascus. though orange, 
are both good parents for red. I would say it 
was the great predominance of red in the 
seedlings from Damascus that led to the breed- 
ing lines that have given me my present reds 
such as Aria, which is a sure fire parent. and 
Manana which is the parent of No. 50-90. 
Kwilsena, Apex. Bandit, Britannia, Caravan, 
Dark Fire and Ebony Echo are also producing 
fine clean seedlings in good red colors. These 
all involve Casa Morena, Cape Bon, Garden 
Glory, Jasper Agate, Redward. Damascus and 
Rocket in their ancestry and if you will follow 
the parentage through on each you will see 
where various lines have been brought together. 
