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of color that defies description. A general survey was made of 
the variations, and living plants representative of th Ss 
for: e taken and later pl: d in the experimental 
plots at ‘k Botanica’ for use in breeding 
and in propagation. The following description of these on the 
basis of flower color will give some idea ex! 
of variability observed a almost endless gradations 
that exist bet een the ext 8. 
outside 
varietal terminology: the various forms have simply been given 
bers and have been grouped according to the prevailing 
I. GrRoUP WITH FLOWERS WHITE OR PREVAILINGLY WHITE 
1. Pure white corolla with no trace of color in tube, blades or 
eye area. 
2. Completely white in blades and in eye; pale and faint pink 
in tube 
II. Group WITH FLOWERS PREVAILINGLY OF PINK SHADES 
3. Rather diffuse pale amaranth pink in blades; slightly more 
intense in eye with faint suggestion of eye spots; tube less 
intense 
4. Paler than no. 3 in blades; faint but decided aes of spots 
in eye area at base of each ma colored than 
5. Blade 
of each blade; tube Phe bluish violet. 
6. Blades white; intense almost amethyst violet eye spots 
(two for each blade); tube diffuse pale viole 
