U LUTHER BURBANK 



By propagating this specimen as usual, by 

 division, fragrant callas precisely like the mother 

 plant were soon developed in quantity. 



Other races showing the quality of scent- 

 production in varying measure were produced 

 from the seed, but no one of the seedling 

 varieties ever equaled the selected plant, and 

 the finest fragrant callas in existence to-day 

 are all the descendants, through the process 

 of division, of the original second generation 

 seedling. 



This new race of callas was named the 

 "Fragrance." 



Fortunately it chanced to combine with the 

 habit of perfume production the habit of abun- 

 dant and constant blooming. Indeed, in this 

 regard it probably excels all other varieties of 



calla. 



THE NEW CALLA A "SPORT" 



It thus appears that the perfumed calla was 

 developed through selection, and in the short 

 period of two generations, from a perfumed 

 individual that appeared "spontaneously" among 

 some thousands of odorless seedlings. 



Using a term that is peculiarly popular in 

 recent years, we might say that so marked a 

 variation from the normal or usual form of calla 

 constituted a "mutation." 



