Re: HYB: REF: Helen Collingwood/Pink formal

Breeding with classic amoenas is a particularly frustrating experience.  In
the controlled experiments that produced 'Bright Hour' and that generation for
Geddes Douglas, I believe he resorted to embryo culture at the suggestion of
L. F. Randolph.  Germination of amoena-bred seeds is notoriously poor, crosses
difficult to make, and the same proportion (one or two out of hundreds if not
more) worth giving space to.

That right there is reason enough for a derth of progeny.

The other is the advent in the late fifties of the Cook Progenitor-derived
dominant amoenas.  Although they are quite different from classic amoenas
('Wabash' type) they can include the Umbrata from the classic amoenas and
variegatas--witness the many such from Barry Blyth, Joe Ghio and Keith Keppel.
The bicolors from 'Romantic Evening' breeding have the same fall overlay that
is present in the early amoenas, neglectas and variegatas--at least so I
assume.

Gordon Plough did some work with the combination, as did others, including
Cook himself.

On the pinks, quite the opposite is true.  The only thing that germinates
faster or easier than pinks and their kin are plicatas.

Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC mountains

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