NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



up to this time, and a vast number have since 

 been grown. 



In strangeness of form these lilies rivaled 

 anything Mr. Burbank has ever produced. 

 For example, one seedling from a native wild 

 California lily which grows only ten inches 

 high produced all the way from twenty to 

 forty blossoms on each of the short stalks put 

 forth, whereas the usual number was from 

 three to eight. One small dwarf lily, the 

 result of a cross, bore twenty -eight flowers; 

 while another, a branching lily with eight 

 stems coming from one bulb, bore over two 

 hundred buds and flowers. One plant of this 

 cross showed thirty-seven stems. 



Speaking of the curiously interesting vari- 

 ations in flower, plant and bulb, Mr. Burbank 

 says: 



"One blossom is white; another pale straw 

 or creamy white with thick recurving, chan- 

 neled petals, studded with numerous papillae 

 with light yellow anthers; another is per- 

 fectly green throughout in appearance, very 

 much resembling a trillium in form and 

 general character; some are tigridia - like ; 

 others open their petals in such curious 



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