LUTHER BURBANK 



seems to have an exceptional propensity to form 

 new types. 



This, of course, is precisely the characteristic 

 that gives the plant interest from the standpoint 

 of the amateur experimenter. So a plot may very 

 well be set aside in the flower garden for some 

 evening primroses of two or three species. Hy- 

 bridization will readily be effected by the insects, 

 if the experimenter does not care to take the trou- 

 ble to hand-pollenize the plants, and the produc- 

 tion of some interesting new forms may fairly be 

 counted on. 



I will name only two other common plants from 

 among the almost numberless ones that might be 

 selected, as offering advantageous material for 

 selection by the amateur experimenter. But these 

 are about the commonest of all, and in some re- 

 spects among the most beautiful and interesting 

 the golden rod, and the aster. These plants are 

 almost universally associated when growing wild 

 in the field, and their blossoms form so beautiful 

 a contrast that the two may very well be trans- 

 planted to the garden together. 



I have experimented quite extensively with the 

 goldenrods, and at the same time made a collec- 

 tion of the native asters. And while the two plants 

 are so very different, the fact that they blossom 

 together late in the fall and harmonize so beau- 



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