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close watch of descendants, continued the selecting, the re- 

 jecting, and the multiplying for several years, and to-day it 

 is as if the flower had been glorified. Each blossom is from 

 eight to ten inches in diameter. When one is placed above 

 another in a column, seven of them will stand as high as a 

 man. With a dozen of these blossoms in front of him, even 



Variation of Hybrid Poppy Leaves' 



Out of two thousand plants no two were alike. (From " New Creations in Plant 

 Life," by W. S. Harwood. Published by The Macmillan Company) 



a large man would be hidden out of sight. Mr. Burbank 

 is even able to take "a single one of these new poppy-seed 

 capsules, divide it into four sections, and, by pollinating each 

 section, produce from one section an annual plant, from an- 

 other a perennial, from the third quarter crimson poppies, 

 from the fourth, white ones." He has also produced a blue 

 poppy, unknown to the world before, and has changed the 

 color of the native poppy of California from gold to crimson. 



