LUTHER BURBANK 



work of papillae. There is something of this ap- 

 pearance occasionally in flowers of C. coccinea and 

 C. crispa, but it was much accentuated in many of 

 the hybrids. 



In their general habit and their herbaceous 

 stems, the hybrids seem uniformly to follow the 

 seed parent. 



The flowers were produced in great abundance, 

 and the colors were not only most beautiful but 

 showed combinations never before seen in the 

 clematis. The bell-shaped flowers are for the most 

 part white on the inside, but exteriorly they are 

 crimson, pink, orange, blue, or purple. The beau- 

 tiful frosty throats give the flowers an appearance 

 that is unique. 



I selected among the hybrids a few of the most 

 beautiful forms, and placed these, without specific 

 names, with a florist, Mr. J. G. Vaughan of Chicago, 

 for introduction. Some of my earlier clematis in- 

 troductions had been given names more or less 

 suggestive of their peculiarities of flower, includ- 

 ing "Ostrich Plume" and "Snow Drift". Another 

 had been named "Waverley". 



I have stated that the earlier varieties were 

 destroyed by the clematis disease. In the later 

 experiments I endeavored to produce varieties that 

 would be immune to disease, as well as those that 

 would show exceptional hardiness. 



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