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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw28amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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The Late Frederick Grilbotzer. (See obituary, issue June 25, 1904 ) the other six in the unit place, is not great, but if the two digits mentioned occupy the billion column there is a vast difference in the resulting numbers. So if the influence of a great-great-grand- parent, which was very different and inferior to the plant which produced the seed, is relatively slight, as it usually is, (if it occupies the unit's place) it is not an important factor in determining the characteristics of the plant the seed will develop into; but if, as is sometimes the case, it is the dominating influence, out- weighingthat of the intermediate parents, (if it occupies the billion's place) it is of the utmost importance. We can only predict with certainty the character of plant a seed will develop into (the number the digits will express) when each and everyone of its ancestors were precisely alike (the using of only one digit), or when the relative power of all the differ- ent influences (the order in which the digits are arranged) is precisely the same. Neither of these conditions is ever fully possible with plants, for there never were two plants precisely alike, but we may come as near to it as possible by first forming a conception, to the minutest detail, of the kind of a plant we want and then seeing to it that every ancestor of our seed comes as near to this concep- tion, and hence all are as nearly alike, as possible, always remembering that no matter how slight the variation may be in any single ancestor, it may affect the result, just as the use of a digit even one larger or smaller than the other, may most materially change the resulting number, when they are thrown together. I think that seed growers often fail in this respect. If they find an ear of Crosby corn much larger than the type they have been breeding to, but perfect in every other respect, they put it in stock seed, forget- ting that this increased size is almost certain to be corelated with other and less evident differences, and these differ- ences will be likely to disturb that bal- ance of ancestral influences which, undis- turbed, would give us an ideal Crosby. The second method of securing uniformity is to have the influences of the different individuals, no matter how different.
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NURSERYMEN AT THE ATLANTA, GA., CONVENTION JUNE 22-24.

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