"Named" perennials

>You can raise many fine perennials from seed and have them come true to
>type-but one must keep in mind that plant propagation falls into two general
>categories.
>
>Seed raised plants and those that are clones.
>
>If the plant is normally propagated from seed-then we need to know if it is a
>hybrid selection or if it has been breed to be true.
>
>If it is a hybrid-then the seed that we collect from the plants as a general
>principle will not be like the parents. 
>
>If the plants are the result of selective breeding -- if we keep the same
>plants together and to not allow "outcrossing" ( cross pollinating with other
>forms or species) then the seed we collect should come true to type.

Generally speaking, when a plant is "named", e.g. Phlox paniculata 
'Mt. Fuji', that name may only be properly applied to plants that are 
vegetatively propagated from that particular plant,  No matter how 
much the offspring may look like the parent plant, they cannot 
properly bear that name.

There is a problem when you have an annual or short-lived perennial. 
If the strain has been inbred enough to come true from seed, then it 
should be specified as a "seed strain" so that it will be realized 
that some variability might occur.

-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com


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