NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
tions and, by pollinating each section, produce 
from one section an annual plant, from an- 
other a perennial, from the third quarter 
crimson poppies, from the fourth, white ones. 
In another experiment Mr. Burbank has 
produced a blue poppy, a blossom unknown 
to the world before. 
Strangely interesting, also, is a new poppy 
now under process of development, which 
promises to become a notable addition to this 
varied family. It is the result of the union 
of the Papaver pilosum, and the Papaver 
somniferum of the variety known as the 
“Bride” poppy. The first named is a delicate 
flower, the general color being a dull orange, 
with white center. The second is pure white, 
the seed-capsule in the center a shade of 
green. The first one has smooth-edged petals, 
the white one heavily laciniated ones. The 
child of the two is a fire-red or scarlet with 
purple at the base of the petals, a most strik- 
ing flower. It has rejected the smooth edges 
of one parent and adopted the irregular lacin- 
iations, or fringe, of the white parent. The 
divisions of the fringe of the new poppy are 
wider than those of the parent, though the 
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