Gardeners' Chronicle, p 417 (December 11, 1897)
Dubious Dahlia Crosses

HYBRIDS.—M. MARTIN CAHUZAC has sent to the editor of the Semaine Horticole six flowers said to be the result of a cross between a Chrysanthemum and a Dahlia. The evidence of hybridisation does not appear to have been very marked. A week or two ago, Mr. E. J. LOWE sent us flowers of a cross between a Sunflower and a Dahlia; the flowers were those of a Dahlia, but the central disc was proportionately larger and deeper. Improbable as such crosses appear, it would be rash to assert that they are not possible. Very often the application of the foreign pollen seems to induce enhanced growth of the seedling without actual change of form having taken place.

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