NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
with its tenacity of life and its ability to with- 
stand heat and cold, was chosen. So when the 
end came a flower was produced that would 
grow equally well inside the arctic circle and 
under the equator. The cut-flowers, too, will 
remain fresh and beautiful in water for from 
three to six weeks. A gift of some of his 
choicest stock which graced a Thanksgiving 
table was still beautiful at Christmas. 
As Mr. Burbank puts it, they will grow 
anywhere out-of-doors where it is not cold 
enough to kill an oak tree, and they will grow 
for anybody. They are perennial, increasing 
in number of blossoms from year to year. But 
if, at the first, the plant is left to itself it will 
blossom itself to death the first year. All but 
one or two of the first buds must be removed, 
and sometimes not a single one is left. Thus 
treated, the plants strengthen themselves and, 
after the first season, a single clump will bear 
from two hundred to five hundred of the huge 
white blossoms. The plants may be multi- 
plied indefinitely thereafter simply by dividing 
them at the roots. They will blossom for sev- 
eral months in the average temperate zone 
climate, in California blooming six months or 
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