NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



and place them side by side, you will see an 

 even greater contrast than that which ap- 

 pears in the blossoms. The ordinary bulb 

 will be two to three inches in diameter at the 

 largest part and will weigh a pound or a little 

 over. The new bulb is fully eight inches in 

 diameter, twelve to fifteen inches in height 

 and weighs from six to eight pounds. It is 

 graceful in shape, having the form of a beauti- 

 ful vase. In color it is like brownish copper 

 with inner folds of silver. 



But the most remarkable feature of the 

 bulbs is their wonderful power of multiplica- 

 tion. In place of four or five bulbs, as in the 

 old plant, the new amaryllis produces all the 

 way from forty to fifty. When they were first 

 introduced the bulbs sold at six dollars each, 

 but by this rapid multiplication they will soon 

 be produced so that they may be sold for a 

 few cents each — then the poorest man may 

 glorify his garden by these magnificent blos- 

 soms, and no one will be happier thereby than 

 the generous-hearted man who has made them 

 possible. 



When Dr. Hugo de Vries, the great Dutch 

 botanist, visited Mr. Burbank in the summer 



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