LUTHER BURBANK 



The foliage of these selected new seedlings vary 

 greatly in size, the leaves of some being several 

 times as large as others. The half dozen types se- 

 lected are being used for further development, and 

 as might be expected they show still more astonish- 

 ing variations in the second generation. A single 

 plant of some of the rapid growing varities usually 

 overgrows and covers up perhaps a dozen of the 

 smaller lippias of the same age. 



Add that the new plants, in addition to their 

 rapid and compact growth, are adapted to dry soil, 

 requiring not one-tenth the water that blue-grass 

 or other ordinary lawn grass requires, and keeping 

 in good condition longer than any bluegrass or 

 clover lawn with a fraction of the care or the ex- 

 pense for watering, weeding, and mowing necessi- 

 tated by the ordinary lawn, and it is obvious that 

 the developed variaties of lippias constitute a very 

 important acquisition. 



Curiously enough the lippia lawn makes a 

 better appearance where it is frequently trod upon 

 and subjected to treatment that would injure an 

 ordinary grass lawn, or destroy it altogether. The 

 plants appear to pay no attention if a path is made 

 directly over them; their appearance is actually 

 improved thereby. 



With some species occasional runners may 

 grow above the main mass of foliage and become 



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