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Modern Flower Breeders:
A scented garden has its own obvious pleasures, and despite the cries that scent is being lost by modern flower breeders there are many different types of flowers that can be used effectively in this way. The heady scent of wallflowers Erysimum, the lovely mignonette and, of course, night-scented stock are all excellent choices. There are many more that can be appreciated from spring to winter, and they include the white Nicotiana (tobacco plant) and many forms of lilac, lavender, lily-of-the-valley, honeysuckle, viburnum, sweet peas, and jasmine.In addition to selecting outstanding breeding stock cattle breeders use several systems of mating: outbreeding, inbreeding, line-breeding, and crossbreeding. Most cattlemen use outbreeding, that is, they mate the best animals but make sure they are unrelated, but some breeders do mate related animals in a system called inbreeding. Inbreeding is difficult to carry out successfully with cattle, and only a few breeders have produced outstanding herds with it. Linebreeding, a form of inbreeding where matings are made between descendants of an outstanding ancestor, is often practiced; however, the extent to which real improvement can be made by linebreeding as compared to outbreeding is a matter of debate among cattle breeders.
There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film distributors has found flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful flower projected. A close-up of a lovely flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.
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