NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
note of color where it would fall under the 
eye of the man who has scrutinized her as 
others have never done. Instantly he isolated 
the plant, transplanted it, watched it with 
jealous care. Its seeds were saved and planted. 
Some of the flowers which came upon the 
plants from these seeds showed a similar line 
of red slightly widened. Again the crop of 
seeds from these new plants, now much more 
numerous, was planted, and a far larger har- 
vest of blossoms was produced. Some of them 
were true to their ancestral forms of life and 
nodded their pure yellow heads in saucy 
defiance. They paid sadly for their temerity, 
for all of them were rejected. Others had 
still more pronounced hints of the crimson, 
and these were selected for further plant- 
ing. So on and on the test went for years, 
each successive generation showing stronger 
tendencies toward the end desired, as the 
petals grew more and more crimson. At last 
the end was reached, the yellow poppy haa 
become a deep lustrous red; it was hard by 
the land of miracles. 
From certain quarters,—so curious the 
inconsistency of man,—came up more or less 
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