LUTHER BURBANK 



The anomalous plant in question is one that 

 produces flowers that are snow white in the morn- 

 ing when they first open, yet which at noon are 

 bright pink, and which, finally, toward evening 

 assume a deep crimson color. Each flower goes 

 through this process during the first day, but some- 

 times the changes in color take place a little more 

 gradually; so that each morning one may see on 

 the same plant carnations that are crimson, a few 

 that are pink, and freshly opened ones of white, 

 giving the plant a very striking and unique 

 appearance. 



It chances that the plant that bears this curious 

 flower is a most astonishing bloomer, seeming 

 indeed to have more blossoms than foliage. So its 

 tri-color display is indeed a striking one. 



The plant that bears these anomalous flowers 

 is the hybrid offspring of a white carnation and of 

 the deep crimson one known as Dianthas 

 Chinensis. 



The plant itself is about eight or ten inches 

 high and of quite compact growth, in these regards 

 pretty closely resembling the Chinese parent. The 

 foliage appears to be about an even combination 

 of the characters of the parents. The flowers, as 

 we have seen, combine the traits of the blossoms 

 of the parent forms in a very anomalous way. Our 

 earlier studies would lead us to expect that the 



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