Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V HYBRIDS AND HYBRIDISING In the Apogon group few hybrids have been raised. The principal known to the author are Monspur and ochaurea (see accompanying plate), the former between Monnieri and spuria, and the latter between orientalis (ochroleucd) and aurea, both raised by Sir Michael Foster. They are good and desirable plants. No one has succeeded in combining /. laevigata with any other species, but further effort is worth making. The present writer has failed in trials with /. Pseudacorus, but some hybrids have been obtained only by repeated experiment, and it would be impossible to say that such a probably valuable cross could not be effected. Those who wish to experiment in hybridising may find suggestion by glancing through the keys to this and to other sections herein provided. For instance, I. albopurpurea and /. hexagona, I. fulva, and /. laevigata coming near together invite attention, especially the first pair. In Evansia no cross appears to have been effected, but the first three species are not undeserving of attention. In Oncocyclus, combined with other groups, and especially with 1. Korolkowi, of the Regelia group, wonders have been performed by Sir Michael Foster, and for some years I have noted these Korolkawi hybrids in his garden as among the most beautiful of flowers I know. His paradoxa X Korolkoivi is exceedingly rich and beautiful. These groups are closely allied, and, by crossing, magnificent flowers have been obtained, not singly on IRIS OCHAUREA the stem as in Oncocyclus, but two together as in Regelia. They have also had the advantage of being much more easily grown than the Oncocyclus Irises. Mr C. G. Van Tubergen has recently made similar crosses, and as he has kindly sent me cut flowers, I give below a few descriptions. Th...