LUTHER BURBANK 
ances of the flower and of the combinations of 
them—all of the colors, scents if there be any, 
shapes, sizes, forms, elements of strength or weak- 
ness—uncovered before us. 
And between the white and the orange we have 
but to select the particular pink flower of our 
fancy. 
If the flower we select, perchance, showed some 
weakness, or if its tint were a little too light or 
too dark, or if for any other reason among this 
infinite color variation we did not find the exact 
result we sought, another season or another would 
surely bring it forth; for next year, instead of 
planting white and orange, we should plant a 
selection of our new daisies, and instead of getting 
a combination of two parentages, we should get a 
combination of combinations. 
Then, having secured the color called for in 
our original mental blue print, we might find 
structural improvements to make in the flower— 
we might want to increase its height or to 
lengthen the daily period of its opening, or to 
rearrange its petals into a more chrysanthemum- 
like form, or to increase or decrease the size 
of its center—or to accomplish any one of a 
number of other ideals which we may have set up 
for our production. 
So on we go, season after season, always 
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