THE AMARYLLIS AND THE POPPY 
incisions are not so deep. Its foliage is wholly 
different from that of either parent. The 
Pilosum is of solid color throughout its petals, 
as is the other parent, the offspring presenting 
a combination of purple and scarlet as noted. 
As one studies more into this line of his 
experimentation, the wonder grows steadily,— 
the possibilities of what he may yet accom- 
plish in this one branch seem limitless; for, 
aside from the production of the strange forms 
which appear in the foliage of the new pop- 
pies, and the development of the great poppy 
itself which stands apart among flowers, he 
has done what might well be called the 
impossible: he has changed the native Cali- 
fornia poppy from gold to crimson. Many 
acts has this man done which savor of the 
miraculous, none more marvelous than this. 
Once, when he was looking over a field of 
these gorgeous flowers that cover the Cali- 
fornia hills and roadsides in the early summer 
as with a splendid mantle of gold, he discov- 
ered one blossom which bore a faint trace of 
crimson, a slender line along down its yellow 
satin chalice. It was a strange stain of Nature. 
She had done her work well to place this odd 
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