NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
up to this time, and a vast number have since 
been grown. 
In strangeness of form these lilies rivaled 
anything Mr. Burbank has ever produced. 
For example, one seedling from a native wild 
California lily which grows only ten inches 
high produced all the way from twenty to 
forty blossoms on each of the short stalks put 
forth, whereas the usual number was from 
three to eight. One small dwarf lily, the 
result of a cross, bore twenty-eight flowers; 
while another, a branching lily with eight 
stems coming from one bulb, bore over two 
hundred buds and flowers. One plant of this 
cross showed thirty-seven stems. 
Speaking of the curiously interesting vari- 
ations in flower, plant and bulb, Mr. Burbank 
says: 
“One blossom is white; another pale straw 
or creamy white with thick recurving, chan- 
neled petals, studded with numerous papille 
with light yellow anthers; another is _per- 
fectly green throughout in appearance, very 
much resembling a trillium in form and 
general character; some are tigridia- like; 
others open their petals in such curious 
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