Did The Flowers Of The Future Come True?

Future Flowers

Mr. Joseph Harris of the Joseph Harris Seed Company, Rochester, N. Y., would like to see yellow sweet peas and pure yellow petunias brightening the landscape but concedes that these

Houseplant Hybridizers Share Their Secrets

Houseplant Hybridizers

You could be the hybridizer who creates a series of miniature, everblooming gloxinias in various flower colors and leaf types. Or crosses the jacobinias in cultivation to produce plants better

You Can Be A Plant Breeder

plant breeder

The plant breeder is truly a creator, for he works, not with such dead chemicals as pigments, but with those infinitesimally small yet living chemicals galled “genes.”  Genes: Bearers Of

Project for Hybridizers

project hybridizers

Would you like to carry on your plant hybridizing throughout the year?  You can if you own a small greenhouse. What’s more, many greenhouse-grown perennials bloom in far less time