352 LUTHER BURBANK 



advent in the horticultural garden, is already 

 highly specialized. 



That further improvements of striking charac- 

 ter will be attained cannot be doubted by any 

 one who takes into account the fact that the 

 dahlia is a parvenu among the admitted aristo- 

 crats of the flower garden. It is impossible that 

 the hereditary resources of any plant should have 

 been exhausted within the comparatively brief 

 period of time that has elapsed since this extraor- 

 dinarily responsive and adaptable flower was 

 first brought from the wilds. 



