AUSTRALIAN STAR FLOWER 



This is the everlasting flower that a 

 wholesale Paris milliner found so 

 attractive that he asked me to raise ten 

 million sprays of them for him. 

 Having too many other matters requir- 

 ing my attention, I could not undertake 

 the contract, but the fact that the offer 

 was made suggests the unexpected 

 commercial possibilities that sometimes 

 arise in connection with an experiment 

 in plant development. Seeds of this 

 plant were sent to me by one of my 

 West Australian collectors. It was 

 small and white. By selection it was 

 made large and pink. It is an everlast- 

 ing flower, now of rarest beauty. 



