CHAPTER XI 
BREEDING FOR PERFUME 
yy one has come to some apprecia- 
tion of the wide extent of Mr. Bur- 
bank’s life-work among the plants of the 
world, it is not difficult to imagine the flowers 
gathered in delicate array to make known 
their individual needs, praying for aid at the 
hands of one who has never refused them 
service. 
One has length and strength of stem but 
meagerness of blossom, it is longing for more 
beautiful flowers;—an answer to its prayer 
comes in the passing of the years and it grows 
on and on until it bears a rare, fragrant 
coronal. One has never been able to hold up 
its head in the presence of its fellows, bearing 
its blossoms on a single side of its stem, a sad, 
top-heavy state;—cannot help be given? As 
swiftly as may be the gift of grace follows, 
and now its blossoms surround its stem in 
radiant beauty. Another has never liked its 
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