| Show Double Flowers Nearly all the double flowers of gardens gar-dens were first found wild Double buttercups but-tercups double primroses double Daisies Dai-sies double roses and many other things were first discovered among their wild fellows and introduced into the gardens The florist however can produce double dou-ble flowers He watches this tendency in nature If a flower usually has five petals and lie discovers that some of too stamons have somewhat of a petal like character the pollen is taken from these flowers and others in a normal condition fertilized with this pollen The tendency once started is then given giv-en to the progeny Almost any species of plant will in this way be capable of producing double flowers It is surprising I sur-prising that with this knowledge more attempts at this lino of improvement in ordinary garden flowers are not made Meehans Monthly |
