HOW TO OBTAIN VARIATION 

 AMONG FLOWERS 



THE DOUBLING OF THE KOREAN 

 BALLOON-FLOWER 



IN illustrating the possibilities of flower 

 development, the case of the Korean balloon- 

 flower (Platycodon) will perhaps answer 

 as well as another. 



For some time I had been working with 

 these flowers, to increase their beauty of form, 

 size, clearness, and intensity of color, and the 

 closer and more graceful placing of blossoms 

 on the stalk. As to all of these qualities, 

 the existing balloon-flowers left much to be 

 desired. 



The method of work was that which has 

 already been outlined so fully in connection with 

 other flowers. The essentials, as the reader is 

 aware, are first the careful examination of the 

 entire colony to discover the individual that is the 

 very best of all as to the particular characters in 

 question. 



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