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The Queen Of Blue Flowers

When, over a hundred years ago, the Nature-loving Wordsworth wrote of flowers, "All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven", how was he to know that the twentieth century would produce a celestial favorite? One suspects that were a poet to write thus impartially of flowers today, he would instantly precipitate an uprising of delphinium fans demanding that he extol their flower above all others. If there is any scepticism as to the strong hold this gloriously blue flower has on the affections of mankind, just grow some in your own garden, and you will find yourself immediately planning to raise more varieties the coming season and wondering why you didn't see its possibilities sooner. With a singularly wide range of both color and size, in addition to its willingness to go on blooming from June until frost, this "Queen of Blue Flowers" commands our attention.

Its blue, lavender and purple spikes form stunning pictures, the riot of color reminding one of scenes from fairy books. Indeed, many is the gardener who has forsaken all his other garden loves in his admiration for the delphinium, spending years in contributing to its advancement from an original state of wildness, up through the old English hybrid stage to its present place of distinction among flowers. Obviously the delphinium's story is a composite of the stories of these men whose lives are interwoven with the life of their chosen flower; each has contributed some hitherto unknown possibility-a new color, a variety possessing a double form, and so on and on. And for these changes we are indebted both to English and American hybridists.

In this country we point proudly to Mr. O. M. Pudor, who, for almost twenty years, out in the State of Washington, has been steadily breeding strong, healthy plants astonishingly free from disease. The variety known as "Pudor's Glory Strain" with its huge spikes of single and semi-double flowers in numerous shades of blue and lavender, alone is ample proof of what he has accomplished. And then there is that well-known Californian who leads the fascinating dual life of hybridizer and soldier-Major Newell F. Vanderbilt. We have him also to thank for plants with a wealth of color, a strong resistance to disease, and a mild fragrance.

During the course of his experiments with delphiniums he had been growing Burbank's sort, which were far from satisfactory because they mildewed easily. Then one day when on a trip in the Sierra, he came upon a wild species-Delphinium scopulorum. Curious and eager in his quest for a perfect specimen, he instantly decided to cross this wild type with Burbank's. He crossed them so well-this was in 1911-that four years later the hybrid won for him the Panama-Pacific Exposition Medal. He even produced sorts able to thrive in California, which, as everyone knows, had always been an unfavorable location for the pretty blue spikes.

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