Tetraploid daylilies gain breeding edge and market promise
The article details the rise of tetraploid daylilies since 1944, noting chromosome advantages of 44 for richer traits. It highlights slow growth, advanced techniques with gibberellic acid and controlled conditions, and early 1966 market previews from breeders in Beltsville Maryland under USDA programs using colchicene, X rays, and cobalt-60 to accelerate blooming.
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Beltsville
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Secon
Shady Spots Boost Shade Loving Flowering Plants
For shade and filtered light areas, enrich soil with fertilizer and humus, choose tolerant varieties. Bleeding heart ashlbe Christmas roses cora bells violets primroses and ferns brighten shade, with caladiums and lilies possible in mild nights. Fall planting of snow drops squills grape hyacinths narcissi yields spring bloom late April.
Spring Cleanup Includes Trees Care Guidance
Dr Philip L Rusden of Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories urges spring garden cleanup to include pruning of dangling and dead branches, painting cuts, and dormant sprays to combat overwintering pests especially elm bark beetles. He stresses feeding to restore tree health after drought and winter damage.
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Philip L. Rusden
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
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Sweet corn may stay sweeter longer in future
University of Pennsylvania researchers plan corn varieties with higher sugar content that resists conversion to starch after harvest. Dr Roy Creech says engineered kernels could retain sugars for days at room temp and longer at cooler temps, enabling sweeter winter corn for northern markets and improving quality in plant breeding programs.
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South
Roy G. Creech
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Green Zinnia Envy Debuts For Gardeners This Season
Envy the first green zinnia from Mandeville and King Co will be offered to gardeners this season. The blossoms are a soft apple green with foliage that is olive green. Flower color may vary slightly on a single plant with shaded blossoms darker, and they can darken with cheesecloth coverage on sunny days.
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Mandeville & King Co
Berkshire Gardener Civic Spark Plug
A call to civic pride urges residents to inspect and improve their communities through home landscaping. Emphasizes planning, planting, and maintaining attractive yards and then expanding efforts to public spaces. Promotes central planning, community action, and contagiously improving neighborhoods. You could be that spark plug.
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Azaleas to Line Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington
More than 9,000 azaleas and flowering shrubs will brighten Pennsylvania Avenue this spring. Donated by New York philanthropist Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, the plants will be planted by April 15 and run from Capitol Hill to 15th Street, near the White House, as part of the More Beautiful Capital committee efforts.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
New York
Albert D. Lasker
Lyndon B. Johnson
Committee For
Capitol Hill
15Th Street
White House
Lasker
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