Of course there are numerous other ways in 
which one might achieve red. I am also trying 
to reach bright red by working through the 
deep flamingo and magenta red or purples with 
the red beards. Mr. Lapham tells me he is work- 
ing this line also, aS is Henry Sass, so you too 
eG this in mind when working for your 
ed. 
BLENDS Good parents here are too numerous 
to list but good seedlings from the following 
should be endless. Tobacco Road, Sultans Robe, 
Casa Morena, Melodist, Mirabelle, Veishea, 
Three Oaks, Gypsy Rose, Cape Bon, Lady Al- 
bright, Russet Wings, Miogem, Honeyflow, Ar- 
gus Pheasant, Pretty Quadroon, Copperclad, 
Arab Chief and many more both old and new. 
_ WHITES; There are now a number of very 
fine whites available in a wide price range, all 
of which seem to be fine parents. Among them 
are Katherine Fay, Cathedral Dome, White 
Goddess, Sharkskin, Snow Carnival, Snow 
Flurry, Chi Yun, Spanish Peaks and Lady 
Boscawen. Among good parents for icy or blue 
whites, I have found the following to be very 
good: White City, And Thou, White Wedge- 
wood, Mount Blane and White Waters. 
PLICATAS: This field is so large, possibili- 
ties endless and variations so great that almost 
any cross seems to give something lovely and 
unexpected. I feel that here you will be able to 
use almost any varieties and get something you 
will like. You may use direct plicata parents or 
any one of a vast number of varieties that are 
not plcatas but do carry plicata blood in their 
background. I have found that certain varieties 
do carry fine color and form into their seed- 
lings. Tiffanja, Ruth Pollock, Occidental, Rare, 
Marble, Bright Lights, Firecracker and Blue 
Shimmer all seem to carry fine form and color 
as should their descendents. Captivation is 
giving me an extremely high percentage of good 
seedlings. Older Tiffany seems to be behind a 
lot of fine new things some of the above in- 
cluded as well as the stunning Josephs Mantle, 
ue and Rich Raiment and others by Tom 
raig. 
BLUES: In this class we find Great Lakes 
still holding its own as a topnotch parent. We 
now have about all the ‘‘size’? we need and the 
battle for ‘color’ and ‘‘smoothness’’ seems to 
be on. Almost any blue listed should be inter- 
esting. I would say to select those that are 
best for color and those most free from veining 
except for the fact that many veined flowers 
such as Lake Shannon do not carry a lot of 
veining into the second generation so certainly 
some of them are good parents. Personally I 
consider Lake Shannon very blue as is Lake 
Huron, Stratosphere Blue, Cornflower and Blue 
Valley and many more. While these may be 
veined we will get a percentage of clean blues 
even the first generation so I would suggest 
working varieties such as these with clean un- 
veined varieties such as Cahokia, Blue Rhythm, 
Pierre Menard, Gloriole, Frosty Blue, Distance 
and others of that type. I have been working 
up a line from Narain which while an old 
variety is still one of the brightest blues in the 
garden and probably one that has been the 
least used as a parent. It has a quality in its 
coloring that fairly seems to shout at you, a 
quality which it seems to impart to its progeny. 
A blue bearded sister to Courtesy when crossed 
with a blue from Annabel and Narain, gave me 
a host of fine blues from which I have chosen 
Columbia for introduction. The whole cross 
produced blues with the same brilliance of 
Narain but with almost perfect blue color even 
to the beards. And while I have not done so, 
I should like to see crosses made with Narain 
involving other blues such as Cahokia, Helen 
McGregor, Great Lakes, Azure Skies, Gloriole, 
Chivalry, Windsor, Consolation and others in- 
cluding whites. Helen McGregor seems to be a 
fine parent as anyone who has seen Guy Rogers 
new Senorita Ilse and Lady Rogers, can testify. 
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They came from Helen McGregor as the pod 
parent with Sylvia Murray as pollen parent and 
both are as fine‘as anything I have ever seen. 
Galway Bay with its fine branching, excellent 
form and pure light coloring should be a fine 
parent, 7 * 
YELLOWS: We have many fine yellows to- 
day, but I can remember when Alta California 
and Happy Days were the high points of my 
garden; I can remember the thrill that was 
mine when I first saw Golden Spike and Spun 
Gold; I can remember the gasp that Gold 
Sovereign brought, so who knows what tomor- 
row will bring? If you are a beginner to hy- 
bridizing—don’t, as some wrote me, think that 
the ultimate has been reached in this class, the 
ultimate is never reached. There is no differ- 
ence between then and now as far as you are 
concerned—except you will be starting out with 
things like Gold Sovereign, Zantha, Ola Kala, 
Nova Grande and the like where we _ older 
hands started out with the aforementioned 
Alta California and Happy Days. Don’t worry 
about it, your tomorrows and tomorrows chil- 
dren will be different. If I were starting out 
from ‘“seratech,’”? which I always am, I think I 
would get a few different lines going. For 
smoothness and clarity of color I would use 
Zantha, Golden Eagle, Nova Grande, Golden 
Rule, Cloth of Gold and Guiding Star or Gold- 
beater, Golden Spike, Klondyke Gold and Late 
Sun. Besides smoothness these would hold for 
size. To step up brightness I would use Gold 
Sovereign, Lodestone, Damascus, Rocket, Orange 
Gem and such reds as Aria, Technicolor, and 
Quechee. Any number of combinations could be 
had with equally numerous results. 
LEMON YELLOW: There are in my estima- 
tion two different types of lemon yellows. There 
are those that stem directly from yellow breed- 
ing such as Admiration, Acadia, Katy and 
Guiding Star which is the best example of this 
type I have seen. These lemons might be called 
byproducts of yellow breeding but much might 
be done with them: I have segregated a num- 
ber of the type from yarious lines and plan on 
further work here. The other type of lemon 
yellow comes from plicata breeding and we have 
a number of them that can be worked with, 
from the old but still lovely Elsa Sass up to 
the new and stunning varieties such as Clear 
Sailing, Mattie Gates, Moonlight Mood and 
Belle Amie. These could be used with others of 
the type such as Leading Lady, Golden Fleece, 
Moonlight Madonna and Misty Gold. All of 
these are from plicata breeding with the pos- 
sible exception of Leading Lady and all have 
much white in their makeup. Interesting results 
should come from direct crossing of these pli- 
eata derivatives. However, the most interesting 
results will probably be obtained by using them 
with direct plicatas. 
BLACKS: I have done no great amount of 
work in this line but would suggest the use of 
Paul Cooks varieties such as Sable and Indiana 
Night as well as DeForests Envoy and Ebony 
Isle and Schreiners Black Forest. Storm King 
and its derivatives seem to be good. Dusky 
Night and Bbony Queen should be useful here 
as well as The Intruder. The newer Black Hills, 
Black Diamond, Black Satin and Sable Night 
should all be excellent. 
AMOENAS: In this class we have Wabash, 
Extravaganza, Louise Blake, Helen Colling- 
wood, Gaylord, Criterion and a number of 
others. Wabash is now said to be surpassed by 
Gaylord and Criterion. I think in breeding 
these, one should perhaps place Neglectas such 
as Lothario, Three Cheers. Amigo and some of 
the above all in the class with the amoenas. 
Other things might be used such as Three 
Sisters, Shannopin, Rhumba Rose as well as 
the light yellow amoenas Pinnacle, Lampit 
Hour and Fairday. Further possibilities in this 
pees are the shell or famingo pinks. (See Pink 
cass). 
