THE AMARYLLIS AND THE POPPY 



the mass of color, it is as though some great 

 painter of the world itself had stopped on his 

 way over this fair valley, forgetful of the rest 

 of the earth, and here had fairly exhausted 

 his brush. The blossoms are from eight to 

 ten inches in diameter. Place seven of them 

 side by side in a vertical row, they are as tall 

 as a tall man, — eight of them measure the 

 height of a giant. A man could hide behind 

 a dozen. Individually, the flowers have all 

 the beauty of their ancestors, only enhanced. 

 Effective in interior house adornment, taken 

 in the mass out-of-doors, they present magnifi- 

 cent decorative possibilities. All this is made 

 still more significant because of the fact that 

 most of the new species are perpetual bloom- 

 ers, lasting throughout the entire season 

 instead of two or three weeks at the outside, 

 as is the case of other poppies. They are 

 perennials, also. 



With this new poppy a commanding figure 

 enters upon floral life. 



Something of the remarkable character of 

 the work which Mr. Burbank does is seen in 

 his ability to take a single one of these new 

 poppy seed -capsules, divide it into four sec- 



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