Re: HYB: Fertility
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- Subject: Re: HYB: Fertility
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:38:04 -0600 (MDT)
>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
Sharon: Sounds just great. The "green amoena" out of STEP ASIDE is in
bloom. Not truly beautiful, but with no serious faults, and it reblooms.
Lloyd in Durham NC
