NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



new poppy, rarer, in some ways, than any he 

 has yet produced, is under way, receiving now 

 its finishing touches before it goes out in 

 radiant beauty to adorn the world. Mr. Bur- 

 bank says that this new poppy promises to 

 surpass in size, color, gracefulness and general 

 beauty any poppy now known in the world. 

 The experiments in new forms of grasses 

 which have been much interrupted in their 

 progress have now been resumed. Along this 

 line the economic results promise to be large. 

 Attention is now being given to one important 

 department in which Mr. Burbank has been 

 at work, but never to the same extent as in 

 other lines, the production of more beautiful 

 and striking flowering shrubs and ornamental 

 trees for lawns and public parks. Some tests, 

 promising most effective results never before 

 reached in this line, are under way. 

 /x In this latter connection I may make men- 

 tion of one of the rare acts in his life, — so far 

 as I know it has not been publicly announced, 

 — the complete changing of the leaf of a wild 

 flower from a plain, unbroken edge to a most 

 beautiful fringed effect, transforming a homely 

 wild plant, growing neglected on the California 



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