RE: Fertility
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: RE: Fertility
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 16:38:17 -0600 (MDT)
Congratulations, Sharon. I guess I'm going to have to get that plot of land
and start on my twenty years.
You don't mention any possible name for this amazing cultivr.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where the first species tulip and narcissus
bloomed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon McAllister [SMTP:73372.1745@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 1998 1:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: HYB: Fertility
>
> Looks like I "won the lottery".
>
> I've made many 1/4-bred X
> 1/4-bred crosses in the last
> twentysome years, with nothing
> remarkable to show for my efforts
> until this morning. =
>
>
> Try to picture this:
>
> Standards -- fine violet veining
> on white ground, held open by
> strong mid-ribs. [I. paradoxa form]
>
> Style arms -- golden yellow
>
> Falls -- nicely rounded, greenish-buff
> ground with large ruby overlay and
> small near-black signal.
>
> Hardly a conventional halfbred, but
> with so many aril characteristics I
> think there's a good chance that it
> will prove fertile.
>
> So this type of cross is definitely worth
> trying -- even if you have to repeat
> it for 20 years to get a "keeper".
>
> Sharon McAllister
> 73372.1745@compuserve.com
