THE AMARYLLIS AND THE POPPY 
the mass of color, it is as though some great 
painter of the world itself had stopped on his 
way over this fair valley, forgetful of the rest 
of the earth, and here had fairly exhausted 
his brush. The blossoms are from eight to 
ten inches in diameter. Place seven of them 
side by side in a vertical row, they are as tall 
as a tall man,—eight of them measure the 
height of a giant. A man could hide behind 
a dozen. Individually, the flowers have all 
the beauty of their ancestors, only enhanced. 
Effective in interior house adornment, taken 
in the mass out-of-doors, they present magnifi- 
cent decorative possibilities. All this is made 
still more significant because of the fact that 
most of the new species are perpetual bloom- 
ers, lasting throughout the entire season 
instead of two or three weeks at the outside, 
as is the case of other poppies. They are 
perennials, also. 
With this new poppy a commanding figure 
enters upon floral life. 
Something of the remarkable character of 
the work which Mr. Burbank does is seen in 
his ability to take a single one of these new 
poppy seed-capsules, divide it into four sec- 
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