LAWN AND DOCKYARD 



new forms of callas, including varieties with 

 spotted leaves that have a peculiarly striking 

 massed effect; a dozen new dahlias of the most 

 varied and beautiful forms and colors (among 

 others, the first fully double ones, and a fragrant 

 variety) ; more than twenty new gladioli of rare 

 beauty; a large number of poppies of the most 

 exquisite quality of petal and of rare colors ; and 

 numerous roses that reveal an unmistakable Bur- 

 bank quality. Then, too, there are cannas, ver- 

 benas, larkspurs, myrtles, codetias, lobelias, 

 pentstemons, eriophyllums, firecracker flowers, 

 primroses, and the wonderful giant amaryllis, 

 with a coterie of exotic forms of less familiar 

 name, on the one hand, and perfected varieties of 

 such familiar flowers as the milkweed and iris 

 and petunia and bleeding-heart and goldenrod, on 

 the other. 



All of these have been brought under Mr. Bur- 

 bank's tutorage, and have been made to reveal 

 new possibilities of development of form or color 

 or fragrance or profuseness of bearing. The ex- 

 periment gardens at Santa Rosa and Sebastopol 

 are objects of admiring attention to hundreds of 

 visitors throughout the season, and the new forms 

 of flowers here developed are sent out to gladden 

 the hearts of flower lovers everywhere in the 

 world. 



However varied the qualities of the different 

 flowers, the same general principles of develop- 

 ment apply to all of them. Hybridization and se- 

 lection are the keys to progress and plant develop- 



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