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MAKING NEW PLANTS 



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tions, the plants with the reddest flowers being 

 chosen each season and the others rejected. In 

 the long run a pure crimson poppy was produced 

 in this way. 



Very similar to this is the story of the Iceland 

 poppy, of which several garden varieties were 



FIG. 37. The Botanist, de Vries, in his Greenhouse. 



produced by Miss Gertrude Jekyll, an English lady 

 much interested in plants. Miss Jekyll grew a 

 plant of the yellow Iceland poppy in her garden, 

 and as it was a new garden flower, she sowed a 

 great deal of the seed. The flowers of the seedlings 

 were not all quite the same colour ; some had a 

 slightly orange tint. By selecting the seed care- 



