LUTHER BURBANK 



an offspring with blossoms three inches or four 

 or more in diameter. 



There are, in the pictures shown here, some 

 which indicate a tendencj'^ toward doubleness 

 which gives rise to the thought that the new 

 pinlv daisy, if desirable, might be entirely filled 

 up w'ith petals so that its center would not show 

 at all, even as its very distant relative, the old 

 maid's marigold, has been filled up — an interesting 

 process which will be explained later. 



Those daisies with the tendency toward dark- 

 ened petals at the inner end might be cultivated 

 and selected until finally they produced an off- 

 spring of a purplish black in the center with only 

 a fringe of color, or, until the whole inside was 

 solid black. 



In other of the variations which are shown, it 

 might be noted that some are pink, or yellow, or 

 of colors in between, inside and out, while others 

 show deep red or purple streaks on the backs of 

 their petals. From these it might reasonably be 

 expected to produce a daisy having one color 

 within, and another color without. 



From the bed of seedlings pictured, with no 

 two daisies exactly alike, there might be prepared 

 a list of a thousand different tendencies, each 

 susceptible of cultivation, each the possible 

 starting point of some new transformation. 



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