NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



tions and, by pollinating each section, produce 

 from one section an annual plant, from an- 

 other a perennial, from the third quarter 

 crimson poppies, from the fourth, white ones. 

 In another experiment Mr. Burbank has 

 produced a blue poppy, a blossom unknown 

 to the world before. 



Strangely interesting, also, is a new poppy 

 now under process of development, which 

 promises to become a notable addition to this 

 varied family. It is the result of the union 

 of the Papaver pilosum, and the Papaver 

 somniferum of the variety known as the 

 "Bride" poppy. The first named is a delicate 

 flower, the general color being a dull orange, 

 with white center. The second is pure white, 

 the seed -capsule in the center a shade of 

 green. The first one has smooth-edged petals, 

 the white one heavily laciniated ones. The 

 child of the two is a fire -red or scarlet with 

 purple at the base of the petals, a most strik- 

 ing flower. It has rejected the smooth edges 

 of one parent and adopted the irregular lacin- 

 iations, or fringe, of the white parent. The 

 divisions of the fringe of the new poppy are 

 wider than those of the parent, though the 



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