Scientific Aspects of Luther Burbank ' s W ork 



be more interested, perhaps, to have some illustra- 

 tions of the application of various processes of 

 making new sorts of things, some analytical ac- 

 count of the history of various specific *new crea- 

 tions,' but considerations of space practically for- 

 bid this. Just a few briefly described examples 

 must suffice. More than is generally imagined, 

 perhaps, Burbank uses pure selection to get new 

 things. From the famous golden orange colored 

 California poppy {Eschoitzia) he has produced a 

 fixed new crimson form by selection alone. That 

 is, noticing, somewhere, sometime, an Eschoitzia 

 individual varying slightly redder, he promptly 

 took possession of it, raised young poppies from 

 its seeds, selected from among them those varying 

 in a similar direction, raised new generations from 

 them and so on until now he who wishes xTiay 

 have his California poppies of a strange glowing 

 crimson for the price of a little package of seed, 

 where formerly he was perforce content with the 

 golden orange. For me the golden orange suf- 

 fices, but that does not detract from my eager 



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