NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
it was,—some of the plants bearing great 
quantities of seeds but no flowers, some bear- 
ing beautiful flowers in great profusion but 
not a single seed, some bearing seeds and 
flowers arranged in the most fantastic shapes 
with flowers surrounding the seed-capsules and 
vice versa, and some curious ones bearing 
neither seeds nor flowers,— yet the experi- 
ment proved still more interesting to the 
layman from the point of view of the adorn- 
ment of the world. For among all the won- 
derful improvements in floral life which Mr. 
Burbank has effected, it is doubtful if any 
one of them has shown what might be termed 
such spectacular beauty. His creations are 
each so individually characteristic and beauti- 
ful that they are not easily to be compared, 
but the poppy results certainly may be desig- 
nated as among the most magnificent. 
But look a little later upon this bed of 
poppies, and even the strangeness of the new 
life in seed-capsule and leaf is overshadowed 
in interest by the splendid blossoms them- 
selves. They are now a mass of crimson and 
black and white, with many intermediate 
blendings. So huge the blossoms, so wide 
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