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daisies, the Ostrich plume, Wavcrly, Snowdrift, and Doul)l(3 

 clematises, the Hybrid Wax Myrtle, the extraordinary Xico- 

 timia, a hy])rid between a large, flowering Nicotiana and a 

 Petunia, several hybrid Nicotianas, a dozen new gladioli and 

 ampelopses, several amaryllids, various dahlias, the Fire poppy 

 (Fig. 65), (a brilliant, flame-colored variety obtained from a 

 cross of two white forms), striped and carnelian poppies, and a 

 blue Shirley (obtained by selection from the Crimson field poppy 

 of Europe), the Silver Line poppy (ol)tained by selection from 

 an individual of Papaver umhrosum, showing a streak of sih'er 



Fig. 65. — At left, leaf and flower of the pale yellow poppy. Papnvcr pUusitm; at rijiht 

 leaf and flower of the snow white poppy, Papaver somniferum; and in the middle, 

 leaf and fire-criin.son flower of the first generation hybrid of these two. (From 

 photograph by Burbank.) 



inside) with silver interior and crimson exterior, and a Crimson 

 California poppy (EschschoUzia), obtained by selection from the 

 familiar golden form. 



Perhaps his most extensive experimenting with flowers has 



