Show fl hybrid flowers now wi winning in ning 4 garden awards heres a new rhew term for the amateur eur gardener to learn if lie he w would ae up to date in his hobby its fl abbrid and if the plant breeders bleeders bre eders prophecies eles come true it will soon conversation se oe as corn common mon in gardening as D DDT DT and 2413 are low it means first generation byrne hybrid and has beca become important because of 0 the growing num number ber of fl hybrid varieties ot of both vege ed 1 tables and flowers which are being offered by seeds men petunia sil ver medal top award winner in the all america trials for fol 1949 is an PI fl hybrid so is petunia pink sen bation last years bronze medal winner all hybrid corn cord varieties grown in this country ar are fl hybrids 1 and there are tomatoes cucumbers cum ars squash and egg plant varieties of this class to pro produce duce an fl hybrid you take two parents each having merits which you wish to combine the parents must belong to well fixed strains pure bred and in the case of plants inbred when two such parents are arc crossed the first gen aeration seed will produce a crop which is uniform cc combining the qualities of both parents and endowed with a mystic quality called hybrid vigor which makes it grow faster stronger ager larger and yield more vigorously than ihan others but beware of sowing g the seed borne by an r fl I 1 hybrid plant that is unless you are an all experimenter seeking something new th the 0 see sec ond end generation will be as badly mixed as the first birst was uniform in size shape and color breeders bleeders Bre eders ae look ok for new varieties in the fa hybrids but tile they y will usually be a disappointment to others the originator of an fl FI hybrid which proves to be popular has a monopoly of the seed production j since it requires the inbred parent strains which lie he developed and which others cannot duplicate but there is nothing to prevent other breeders bleeders bre eders from developing their c own parents and breeding their own fl habr hybrids ds which way may win popular favor that la iq what has taken place olace il A I 1 liand hand pollinating plant to produce girl DI medal acdal petunia silver due e seed of with breeders bleeders bre eders of hybrid corn and ted to develop with may be expect expected ri fl hybrid flowers and i vegetables much to the profit of gardeners in general breeding art an fl flower is costly business in the illustration the girl is seated before a pe petunia bunla plant variety chosen to bo be inbred afan of an the seed bearing parent of petunia silver medal every flower on this plant his had its petals trimmed and the pollen bearing organs removed so it c cannot annot self fertilize in the girls hand is a flower from parent pulled pulle d oft off the row tile the pollen small sal al I 1 paint behind her with a s brush she takes pollen from this flower then transfers it to the stigma of a seed bearing flower on the before her this operation plant thousands ol of must be repeated time s to produce a seed crop of a true fl hybrid at postwar post war wages it makes an expensive crop |