LUTHER BURBANK 



(7) New Callas. These included the varie- 

 gated Little Gem, the Snow Flake, the Giant Calla, 

 and the Golden variegated Richardia albo macu- 

 lata, it being recorded of the first-named that it 

 was selected from eighteen thousand seedlings, 

 and of the last named that it was the single selec- 

 tion among hundreds of thousands of bulbs of 

 the spotted-leaved Calla that had been raised from 

 seed on my grounds. 



(8) Hybrid Lilies. Only two specified varieties 

 are offered under individual numbers, one being 

 the large-flowering Lilium pardalinum afterward 

 known as Fragrance, and the other a dwarf form 

 — growing only ten inches high and producing 

 from 20 to 40 blossoms on each of the short stalks 

 — which afterwards bore the name of Glow. But 

 the names of 42 species and varieties were given 

 as only a partial list of the lilies that had been 

 combined in the hybrid seedlings which even at 

 that time made up an extraordinary colony in the 

 experiment garden. 



It was stated that some of the older hybrids and 

 seedlings were represented by as many as a thou- 

 sand bulbs each; that half a million kinds were 

 yet to unfold their petals for the first time; and 

 that we were still planting from one to three 

 pounds of hybridized lily seed every season. 



So the varieties actually announced were only 



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