Fern Growing: Fifty Years' Experience In

Excerpt from Fern Growing: Fifty Years' Experience in Crossing and Cultivation; With a List of the Most Important Varieties and a History of the Discovery of Multiple Parentage, EtcThe small-leaved Fuchsias were crossed with Fuchsia fulgens, and a hybrid obtained, named Polyhymnia, which has a small leaf of the pale colour of fulgens, and a long tubular ower with a large corolla also of the same colour as fulgens (the pollen of this would never cross with another Fuchsia). By using both Fuchsias as seed-bearers, it was apparent that the habit and form of leaf copied the seed-bearer, and the ower that of the male.In Pansies the endeavour was to improve the form and size of the ower, and to obtain a more robust constitution, also to raise a Blue Pansy, which was then a desideratum; a Blue Pansy was raised (the first year), and is known by the name of Imperial Blue. Twenty-four seedling pansies competed with seven other exhibits at the Royal Botanic Society, and they won the First Prize and the Silver Medal against all the named well-known varieties of the other exhibitors.With the Cactus, a scarlet was crossed with a white one; there are a number of seedlings, but they have not yet bloomed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.