THE HYBRID LARKSPUR AND 

 OTHER TRANSFORMATIONS 



Introducing a Miscellaneous 

 Company 



All the members of my hybrid larkspur 

 j[\^ colony are descended from a single 

 individual. 



That individual, in turn, was the select and 

 peerless member of a company of some five thou- 

 sand or more, all of them of equally aristocratic 

 lineage, and each one of them worthy to show 

 itself in any larkspur company. But the usual 

 rigorous method of selection was also applied. 



The one individual that came nearest meeting 

 all expectations was preserved. The rest were 

 sent, with sundry thousands of other plants of 

 diverse species, to the bonfire. 



The selected individual, of course, became the 



progenitor of a new colony of larkspur. Some 



of these improved upon their ancestors, and 



many interesting varieties were isolated through 



selection. 



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