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mountain streams which has a delicious, sweet 

 flavor much superior to the cultivated onion. I 

 have cultivated also a species from China which 

 is peculiarly sweet-flavored. 



Some of the Chilean and Canadian leeks that I 

 have had under cultivation differ widely in form 

 from their northern relatives. Some of the 

 Chilean wild garlics have been classified as leeks 

 by the botanists and gardeners in this vicinity; 

 whereas the same observers classify certain of 

 the true leeks as garlics; which suggests the 

 divergence of form of some of these South Amer- 

 ican species. 



I am now cultivating a wild garlic from the 

 mountains of Chile which is a wholly distinct 

 species from the common cultivated garlic, hav- 

 ing much larger bulbs and a taller stalk similar 

 to that of the leek. 



My large collection of flowering Alliums from 

 California and other countries has, of course, 

 been made with the expectation of crossing these 

 plants among themselves or with commoner 

 varieties. There are interesting possibilities of 

 development all along the line. 



The Spanish onion called the Prizetaker, be- 

 cause of the extraordinary size of the bulb, some- 

 times attains a weight of five or six pounds. That 

 new developments, perhaps of unexpected char- 



