Abstract

A study on pinks and carnation breeding found that the crossing between carnation and D. chinensis or D. superbus when using D. chinensis or D. superbus as female parent seed setting were fail. However when using carnation as female parent seeds could set and seeds germinated well in In vitro condition. For other crossing, seed could set by both direct and reciprocal crosses. The investigation on some characteristics of hybrid found that offsprings showed variation in flower and plant characteristics. The hybrids of carnation and D. chinensis, carnation and D. superbus and D. chinensis and D. superbus showed high plants whereas the hybrids of D. chinensis var. ‘Dynasty’ and  D. chinensis var. ‘white dwarf’ showed dwarf plants. When crossing between double flowers and single flowers the hybrid showed double flowers. From this study the hybrid showed new flower characteristic and bright color which can used in the comercial purpose.