NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



long, a clearly defined green line on the dark 

 earth. A foot or so from the tiny plants 

 was another row double in size. Alongside 

 of this were other rows, larger and thriftier 

 of growth than the preceding one. At the 

 end of the plat which embraced the test, 

 was a heavy row of rich dark grass, broad 

 of leaf, dense of growth, the leaves being 

 from ten to twelve inches long. The plants 

 had a remarkably brilliant green color and 

 were the picture of vegetable health. The 

 experiment was in grasses, a line of work 

 Mr. Burbank has begun with the promise of 

 important results. Indeed, he once carried on 

 a series of grass tests, developing a number 

 of rare grasses remarkable both for rapidity 

 of growth and variety of color, but was 

 obliged to discontinue the tests at the time. 

 In these tests the possibility of development 

 in grasses was clearly proven. 



In the experiment noted above, the tiny 

 inch-high grass was of the same variety as 

 the largest plant in the test. While it had 

 been growing its inch the other had been 

 growing twelve inches, the surface of the 

 one plant being fully five hundred times as 



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