THE PUREST WHITE IN 

 NATURE 



STRIKING COLOR CHANGES IN THE 

 WATSONIA 



BULBS are not usually measured by the 

 cord. But I do not know how better to 

 give an idea of my work with the Wat- 

 sonia than to say that in recent years I have 

 destroyed about eight cords of bulbs of this plant 

 each season. A cord, it will be recalled, is 8 feet 

 long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high. 



If you will picture in your mind's eye eight 

 cords of wood piled together, and recall that the 

 Watsonia bulbs have corresponding bulk in the 

 aggregate, and that each individual bulb is of 

 the size of a small gladiolus bulb, you will gain 

 a fairly clear conception of one of the least 

 satisfactory aspects of the plant experimenter's 

 work. 



These discarded bulbs, it should be under- 

 stood, would produce very beautiful flowers. It 

 seems a pity to destroy them, when so many 



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