BREEDING FOR PERFUME 



flower has made the greatest demand upon the 

 skill and the resources and the commanding 

 genius of the friend of all flowers. 



But even this is granted: a new epoch in 

 the life of the flowers of the earth has come: 

 they need remain scentless no longer. 



For twenty-five years Mr. Burbank had 

 been studying the dahlia before he found a 

 way of answering its prayer for relief from its 

 offensive odor; now it is to be freed from its 

 burden. He has driven out the disagreeable 

 odor and, in its place, he has left the fragrance 

 of the magnolia. 



The dahlia is a fascinating flower with 

 w r hich to work. Year by year as he studied it 

 and progressed in its development, making it 

 more beautiful, hardier, more interesting in 

 shape of blossom, he brought new varieties 

 into service from other lands to make use of in 

 combination with his own. One of these was 

 originally from Mexico, Dahlia Juarezi, the 

 parent of the dahlia now commonly called the 

 cactus dahlia, with petals more on the order of 

 the chrysanthemum. 



From the imported varieties he has worked 

 on with the types of his own creation, all the 



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