NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
and place them side by side, you will see an 
even greater contrast than that which ap- 
pears in the blossoms. The ordinary bulb 
will be two to three inches in diameter at the 
largest part and will weigh a pound or a little 
over. The new bulb is fully eight inches in 
diameter, twelve to fifteen inches in height 
and weighs from six to eight pounds. It is 
graceful in shape, having the form of a beauti- 
ful vase. In color it is like brownish copper 
with inner folds of silver. 
But the most remarkable feature of the 
bulbs is their wonderful power of multiplica- 
tion. In place of four or five bulbs, as in the 
old plant, the new amaryllis produces all the 
way from forty to fifty. When they were first 
introduced the bulbs sold at six dollars each, 
but by this rapid multiplication they will soon 
be produced so that they may be sold for a 
few cents each—then the poorest man may 
glorify his garden by these magnificent blos- 
soms, and no one will be happier thereby than 
the generous-hearted man who has made them 
possible. 
When Dr. Hugo de Vries, the great Dutch 
botanist, visited Mr. Burbank in the summer 
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