NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
long, a clearly defined green line on the dark 
earth. A foot or so from the tiny plants 
was another row double in size. Alongside 
of this were other rows, larger and thriftier 
of growth than the preceding one. At the 
end of the plat which embraced the test, 
was a heavy row of rich dark grass, broad 
of leaf, dense of growth, the leaves being 
from ten to twelve inches long. The plants 
had a remarkably brilliant green color and 
were the picture of vegetable health. The 
experiment was in grasses, a line of work 
Mr. Burbank has begun with the promise of 
important results. Indeed, he once carried on 
a series of grass tests, developing a number 
of rare grasses remarkable both for rapidity 
of growth and variety of color, but was 
obliged to discontinue the tests at the time. 
In these tests the possibility of development 
in grasses was clearly proven. 
In the experiment noted above, the tiny 
inch-high grass was of the same variety as 
the largest plant in the test. While it had 
been growing its inch the other had been 
growing twelve inches, the surface of the 
one plant being fully five hundred times as 
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