10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Sample Hybrid Sunflower 22 



The Flax Plant 50 



Cotton Flower and Seed Head . . . ., 58 



Sugar Cane Tassels 70 



Varieties of Sorghum 78 



A Hop-Field Vista 84 



Sugar Beets at the Factory .... 90 



The Candle Cactus 98 



The Gravity Cactus 104 



The Prolific Cactus 110 



Young Royal Cactus Plants .... 116 



The Hemet Cactus 122 



The Melrose Cactus . 128 



Spineless Cactus Showing Six Months' 



Growth 134 



A Fruit Colony 140 



Cactus Blossoms 148 



Cactus Candy 156 



A Cactus -Slab Fan 164 



Pampas Grass 180 



Variation in Color as Well as in Form 200 



Perennial Peas 210 



A Yellow Tritoma or "Red-Hot Poker" . 218 



The Burbank Rose 228 



A New Yellow Rambler 232 



Roses at Sebastopol 236 



Glimpse in the Proving Ground . . . 240 



A Mammoth Bouquet 244 



The Corona Rose 248 



Giant Amaryllis 252 



hiemanthus blossoms 256 



Seedlings of the Belladonna Lily . . 260 



