SEEDLING PAGE 11
This page will be developed to illustrate the breeding potentials of RED HAT DIVA. The seedling above is the product of RHD with seedling T04-37. This is another link in the chain of hybridizations that we hope will lead to a strong purple with wide, clear white edge. There is a long way to go but what is a hybridizer if not an optimist?
In many ways this was the seedling that got us most excited about what is coming in our purple lines. We feel that the MARY LIGHTFINE/MARY'S BABY lines have as fine a color and as good a color saturation as we can hope for for the present. When this seedling, T07-21 bloomed we knew that a new level in purples was within our reach. Here is a brand new first year seedling blooming in soil that had suffered three months of drought already and the first blossom measured 8 1/4". The size combined with the great ruffling promise to add a new dimension to our purples, perhaps to northern purples in general. A gigantic ruffled purple with the saturation of the ML line would be a sight to behold.