LUTHER BURBANK 



selecting, getting one this year which bears a 

 podful of seeds for next, with the bees and the 

 wdnds anxious to carry on the work, narrowing 

 our lines of heredity down and down and down, 

 until finally some day — maybe fourteen months 

 after the exj)eriment began, or maybe fourteen 

 years, we can say: "Here is a plant such as no 

 jnan ever saw before — here is the exact plant 

 which we have planned." 



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"But will the seed of this new pink daisy," 

 some one asks, "produce more daisies of this same 

 kind of pink?" 



"Of all of the seeds of that daisy," says Mr. 

 Burbank, "there might not be one which repro- 

 duced its parent pink. The seeds of that daisj' 

 sown together in a bed might easily show as great 

 a variation as the seeds of the white and the orange 

 showed when they were first planted after the 

 bees and the winds had done their work. 



"But that need be no discouragement. By 

 dividing the roots of the daisy we can, in a single 

 season, from a single plant, produce a whole bed 

 of plants — each similar to the original plant 

 because each, in fact, is a part of the original 

 plant. 



"We should, at the start, then, propagate our 

 I)ink daisy by dividing the roots. We should 



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