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particular matter that somewhat offensive word occurs. The article continues : 
“ An amusing incident in the visit of the Associated Agricultural Colleges 
and Experiment Stations of America to the Sebastopol grounds gives a fair illus- 
tration. When the party had traversed but a small portion of the grounds and 
tested but a few of the fruits therein, one of the professors called a halt, request- 
ing from his brethren their brief attention. Calling upon Mr. Burbank to step 
forward so that all might the better view him, the producer of the wonders, he de- 
livered the following : ‘Gentlemen, in the presence of you all I wish to make known 
that one of my objects in coming to this Coast was to expose Mr. Burbank’s 
fraud. I have read that man’s catalogue annually and I have long considered him 
about the biggest liar in the United States. I now retract all that and declare that 
Mr. Burbank has never told one-half the marvels that he might. Gentlemen, hats 
off to the wizard before you.’ The motion needed no second.” This needs no 
comment from me. 
This I quote from Mr. Harwood. Mr. Burbank is supposed to say: “We 
say to Miss Golden Cup, or Miss Eschscholtzia as the bon-ton call her, this beauti- 
ful dress of bright golden hue which you have always worn on all occasions is very 
becoming to you, and exceedingly appropriate to this land of perpetual sunshine, 
but, Miss Queen Golden Cup, if you will sometimes adorn yourself with a dress 
of white, pale cream, pink or crimson, we could love you still better than we do. 
Now, Miss Eschscholzia, though having her family tastes and characteristics very 
thoroughly fixed, still belongs to the great Papaver race, which has often shown 
itself willing to adapt itself to the discipline of new conditions, even at first dis- 
tasteful in the extreme. So, taking Miss Golden Cup into our gardens and con- 
stantly making- these suggestions to her, she hesitatingly consents to don a dress 
a shade lighter in color, and then lighter still, until now we have her not only in 
dresses of gold but in deepest orange, light and dark shades of cream, purest 
snowy white, or all these combined, and by constant selection and various educa- 
tional influence in this line, she will adorn herself in a dress of almost any color 
which may be desirable and at the same time seems to take the greatest pleasure in 
improving herself in every grace of form and feature.” 
This particular flower, as is well known, is the flower of California which 
grows all over the fields, making them golden. In Mr. Harwood’s book he tells 
very touchingly of how Mr. Burbank going over a field one evening, noticed a 
delicate stain of red in one of the flowers. His eagle glance caught it and lie 
saved that particular plant. After four or five years, I have forgotten which, he 
was able to put upon the market a beautiful crimson Eschscholtzia, which is of- 
fered by a Philadelphia seed house this year. That is an achievement in itself 
without question. But look at another side of it. Over in England twenty years 
ago Carter of London who had been devoting .some attention to Miss Esch- 
scholtzia or Golden Cup, produced the variety “Mandarin,” a distinct break from 
the yellow, an orange colored one. About seven years ago or thereabouts they 
produced the Rose Cardinal, a rose colored one. This year they offer the Crim- 
son King. I have not seen the variety, but the color plate, contrasted with Bur- 
bank’s shows that Carter’s variety is by all odds the better of the two. I merely 
