NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
As the name of the mountain means white, 
and as its summit is always covered with a 
coronal of snow, he chose the name as pecu- 
liarly fitting for such a flower. 
Now and again Mr. Burbank creates some 
flower or plant which to him seems practically 
perfect; that is to say, it is so nearly up to his 
ideal that he does not think it necessary 
or profitable to give any further time to it. 
Again, he leaves a flower in its class by itself, 
perfected as far as his hands may make it, and 
then fashions another from the material that 
was left over. The new flower may have cer- 
tain characteristics of the completed one, but 
it will have others so very different it becomes 
a practically individual creation. In the breed- 
ing of the daisy some peculiarly interesting 
and curious variations are developed. In cer- 
tain plants these variations assume what are 
called abnormalities, while in other cases they 
are irregularities,—irregular but undeniably 
beautiful. Certain of the hybrid daisies showed 
a tendency to become double, their petals in 
some cases also being strangely convoluted. 
The doubling was somewhat in the manner of 
the chrysanthemum. This tendency was en- 
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