NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



with its tenacity of life and its ability to with- 

 stand heat and cold, was chosen. So when the 

 end came a flower was produced that would 

 grow equally well inside the arctic circle and 

 under the equator. The cut-flowers, too, will 

 remain fresh and beautiful in water for from 

 three to six weeks. A gift of some of his 

 choicest stock which graced a Thanksgiving 

 table was still beautiful at Christmas. 



As Mr. Burbank puts it, they will grow 

 anywhere out-of-doors where it is not cold 

 enough to kill an oak tree, and they will grow 

 for anybody. They are perennial, increasing 

 in number of blossoms from year to year. But 

 if, at the first, the plant is left to itself it will 

 blossom itself to death the first year. All but 

 one or two of the first buds must be removed, 

 and sometimes not a single one is left. Thus 

 treated, the plants strengthen themselves and, 

 after^^the first season, a single clump will bear 

 from two hundred to five hundred of the huge 

 white blossoms. The plants may be multi- 

 plied indefinitely thereafter simply by dividing 

 them at the roots. They will blossom for sev- 

 eral months in the average temperate zone 

 climate, in Cahfornia blooming six months or 



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