WHAT TO WORK FOR IN 

 FLOWERS 



AND How TO PROCEED 



O,NE of the plant developments that usually 

 interests the visitor as much as almost any 

 other has to do not with the flower or fruit 

 of a plant but with the leaf. 



The plant in question is a species of "wild 

 geranium" known as Heuchera micraniha, a 

 native of the western coast, and the anomaly of 

 leaf that attracts attention is the curiously 

 crested, crinkled, and corrugated condition that 

 makes the foliage of this plant quite unlike that 

 of any other member of the tribe before seen. 

 Indeed the new variety is so changed from its 

 ancestral type that it is considered entitled to 

 recognition with the varietal name cristata added 

 to its technical title. Were it found growing in 

 the woods instead of in a garden, it would per 

 haps be pronounced a new species altogether. 



The story of this anomalous geranium will 

 serve as well as another to introduce our studie 



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