220 LUTHER BURBANK 



At all events, so soon as your experiment has 

 reached the stage at which you have a number 

 of fragrant flowers from which to select, all of 

 which have about the same excellence of per- 

 fume, you will, as a matter of course, choose 

 among these the one that combines with fra- 

 grance the most desired qualities of color and 

 form and size of blossom. 



DOUBLING THE PETALS AND INCREASING 

 THE SIZE 



As to the matter of size, it is obvious that not 

 much need be said. A glance shows which plant 

 bears the largest flowers. And it may con- 

 fidently be expected that the offspring of this 

 plant will tend to produce flowers of exceptional 

 size, and that some among these will exceed the 

 parent plant in this regard. 



Precisely the same method of selecting, gen- 

 eration after generation, with size of flower 

 always in view, will lead to the production of a 

 race of plants that tend to produce uniformly, 

 under the right conditions of nourishment and 

 care, flowers of a far larger size than those of 

 the ancestral form. 



The matter of producing double flowers from 

 a single variety that is to say, flowers having 

 two or more rows of petals instead of a single 



