WHAT TO WORK FOR 

 IN FLOWERS 



AND How To PROCEED 



ONE of my plant developments that usually 

 interests the visitor as much as almost 

 any other has to do not with the flower 

 or fruit of a plant but with the leaf. 



The plant in question is a species of "wild 

 geranium" known as Heuchera micrantha, a native 

 of the western coast, and the anomaly of leaf that 

 attracts attention is the curiously erected, crinkled, 

 and corrugated condition that makes the foliage 

 of this plant quite unlike that of any other mem- 

 ber of the tribe that anyone has seen. Indeed the 

 new variety is so changed from its ancestral type 

 that it is considered entitled to recognition with 

 the varietal name cristata added to its technical 

 title. Were it found growing in the woods instead 

 of in a garden, it would be pronounced a new 

 species altogether. 



The story of this anomalous geranium will 



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