THE HYBRID LARKSPUR AND 

 OTHER TRANSFORMATIONS 



INTRODUCING A MISCELLANEOUS COMPANY 



THE members of my larkspur colony are all 

 descended from a single individual. 

 That individual, in turn, was the select 

 and peerless member of a company of five thou- 

 sand, 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 applied to them. 



The one individual that came nearest meeting 

 all expectations was preserved. The rest were 

 sent, with sundry thousands other plants of divers 

 species, to the bonfire. 



The selected individual, of course, became the 

 progenitor of a new colony of larkspurs. Some of 

 these improved upon their ancestor, and among 

 them several interesting varieties were isolated 

 through selection. 



The original parent form from which the one 



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