LUTHER BURBANK 
an offspring with blossoms three inches or four 
or more in diameter. 
There are, in the pictures shown here, some 
which indicate a tendency toward doubleness 
which gives rise to the thought that the new 
pink daisy, if desirable, might be entirely filled 
up with petals so that its center would not show 
at all, even as its very distant relative, the old 
maid’s marigold, has been filled up—an interesting 
process which will be explained later. 
Those daisies with the tendency toward dark- 
ened petals at the inner end might be cultivated 
and selected until finally they produced an off- 
spring of a purplish black in the center with only 
a fringe of color, or, until the whole inside was 
solid black. 
In other of the variations which are shown, it 
might be noted that some are pink, or yellow, or 
of colors in between, inside and out, while others 
show deep red or purple streaks on the backs of 
their petals. From these it might reasonably be 
expected to produce a daisy having one color 
within, and another color without. 
From the bed of seedlings pictured, with no 
two daisies exactly alike, there might be prepared 
a list of a thousand different tendencies, each 
susceptible of cultivation, each the possible 
starting point of some new transformation. 
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