Year: 2008

Looking at pollen

  Hello Theo A most interesting survey of pollen fertility in narcissus hybrids .I like to make two remarks. 1. From several wild narcissi tetraploids are available (Zonneveld (2008) Pl syst Evol 275:109-132) . It would be very worthwhile to…

Looking at pollen (2)

The same speculations made for fertile NNJ can be done for NNTr, for example Silver Bells, which is fertile and I think in many cases forms NTr-Pollen and egg cells. Equivalent crosses as with NNJ can be made.The result of Silver Bells (NNTr plus one chromosome) crossed with…

Looking at pollen (1)

A warning at the beginning.The following text will  be a horror for  normal daffodil freaks. It is for younger hybridizers only, perhaps up to an age of 80, because the results of the remarks in form of nice daffodils can be seen…

an inconvenience

All of you are receiving your December Journals, and what I had hoped was a glitch peculiar to the first box turned out to be widespread—the last two pages will have to be cut apart by the reader. I surely…

Manipulation part

Dear all This are my final words on manipulation. The picture shows the flowering bulbs on 5 of April 08, the white in the foreground was Phoenician, this was shown in the winning Guy Wilson Trophy group at the RHS…

Fw: Manipulation part 2

Not much editing to do on this one —– Original Message —– From: “Roger Braithwaite” To: Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:37 PM Subject: Manipulation part 2 > Dear all > > This picture was taken at the end of…