ARTIFICIAL SELECTION 



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daisies, the Ostrich plume, Waverly, Snowdrift, and Double 

 clematises, the Hybrid Wax Myrtle, the extraordinary Nico- 

 tunia, a hybrid between a large, flowering Nicotiana and a 

 Petunia, several hybrid Nicotianas, a dozen new gladioli and 

 ampelopses, several amaryllids, various dahlias, the Fire poppy 

 (Fig. 65), (a brilliant, flame- colored variety obtained from a 

 cross of two white forms), striped and carnelian poppies, and a 

 blue Shirley (obtained by selection from the Crimson field poppy 

 of Europe), the Silver Line poppy (obtained by selection from 

 an individual of Papaver umbrosum, showing a streak of silver 



FIG. 05. At left, leaf and flower of the pale yellow poppy, Papaver pilosum; at right 

 leaf and flower of the snow white poppy, Papaver somniferum; and in the middle, 

 leaf and fire-crimson flower of the first generation hybrid of these two. (From 

 photograph by Burbank.) 



inside) with silver interior and crimson exterior, and a Crimson 

 California poppy (Eschscholtzia) , obtained by selection from the 

 familiar golden form. 



Perhaps his most extensive experimenting with flowers has 



