NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
plot in an unguarded moment were not 
specially valuable, but the ones which the 
birds had selected were very rare and the 
test was all but defeated. So was it with 
a new generation of beautiful hybrid lark- 
spurs upon which he had been working for 
a number of years. The plants were in 
beds which have wire screens to protect 
them from the birds, but a workman had 
thoughtlessly left the screen off and the 
birds in a few moments wrought havoc with 
the plants that were more than worth, as 
Mr. Burbank put it, their weight in dia- 
monds. 
There is a constant battle going on against 
these foes of the plants. 
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