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September 22, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
New Pink Eschscholtzias. —Promi¬ 
nent flower seed novelties of the year are 
the new pink-flowered Eschscholtzias, 
bred by Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, 
California, and Carters, the London seed 
dealers. The Burbank variety is intro¬ 
duced by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., under 
the name of Burbank’s Crimson Flowered 
Eschscholtzia. A good colored figure of 
it appears on cover of their catalogue for 
the current year. The following account 
of the development of the novelty is in¬ 
corporated in the announcement: 
But consider another new achievement, 
performed not so much as a duty to the 
world as for the world's delight. Among ail 
the diverse elements of Mr. Burbank’s nature, 
none is more conspicuous than his love, for 
the beautiful. lie stood looking at a bank of 
flowers one day when the golden glory of 
the California popples had turned the brown 
mesa to a mass of splendid color,—a gor¬ 
geous. imposing bloom, taken in the mass. 
His quick eye caught sight of one poppy 
that bore a faint stain of red,—a narrow 
pinkish line drawn down Its satin chalice 
of gold. 
This single poppy was jealously guarded. 
Next season its seeds were planted. From 
them came a brood of poppies, some as 
yellow as their forebears, some showing still 
greater hints of the crimson-. The yellow 
ones were destroyed and the others retained, 
and their seeds in turn planted. An increas¬ 
ingly large number of reddish ones appeared 
the next generation. Day by day through 
the years, as the poppies opened to the sun, 
they were challenged With the utmost rigor: 
none was allowed to live which persisted in 
w’earing its yellow coat. 
At last, after years had elapsed, the 
test was brought to a successful end ; and in 
the season of 1004 a new floral wonder wms 
produced—a brilliant crimson poppy made 
from a yellow one; the other characteristics, 
length and shape of petal, size of flower, 
and integrity of all its parts being left 
undisturbed.—From the March, 1905, Cen¬ 
tury Magazine. 
Messrs. Carter offer their Carmine King 
Esehsehcritzia with this brief and con¬ 
vincing statement: 
We have been associated with the intro¬ 
duction of more new varieties of Kseh- 
scholtzias than any other firm of seed 
growers. From the year 1868, when we 
brought out the E. dentata aurantlaca, we 
have been responsible for no less than eight 
new forms, many of which are amongst the 
most popular varieties to-day. None, how¬ 
ever, has given us more satisfaction than 
the present one. Carmine King, because we 
feel quite sure all our customers who grow 
it will share our view as to its novelty and 
beauty. The work of improving the colors 
in Eschscholtzias has been an interesting 
one. The first important break, many years 
ago, w'as the rose with a pale tinge on the 
back of the petals. In 1877 we succeeded in 
blending this with the deep Crocea color, 
which gave the ‘ pleasing effect produced in 
Mandarin. In 1881 we produced Rose Car¬ 
dinal, in which we had not only deepened 
the color on the outside, but also on the 
Inside of the petals. Now Carmine King 
comes along with a beautiful carmine-rose 
color, in many instances as intense on the 
inside as on the outside of the petals, which 
gives it an altogether novel and beautiful 
effect in Eschscholtzias. 
A packet of each variety was procured 
from reliable sources, and the seeds sown 
in good light soil on the Rural Grounds 
April 26. The Summer was too wet for 
best results of these Californian poppy- 
worts, and many plants died out before 
blooming, as did an equal proportion of 
the well-known Mandarin strain of Esch ■ 
scholtzias sown at the same time and 
place. The surviving plants of all three 
varieties came into flower during August, 
and are thriving better as the season 
grows drier. 
Carmine King produced the strongest 
plants, somewhat later in opening first 
blooms than the others. The flowers are 
large, well-formed and all of a fine rosy 
-crimson color, well meriting the name of 
Carmine. Burbank’s variety appears far 
more variable in habit of plants and 
coloration of bloom, the shades ranging 
from pale pinkish buff to rose pink, but 
none deep enough to be called crimson. 
Some of the best approach the shade of 
Carmine King, but there is little uniform¬ 
ity. Mandarin is, of course, well-fixed 
and bears quantities of its brilliant orange 
blossoms. 
What's the tJsE?— The natural color 
of Eschscholtzia blooms in their wild state 
is yellow, but there is an underlying tinge 
of red which occasionally crops out under 
cultivation, and has been increased until 
it entirely dominates by careful and long 
continued selection by breeders quite 
simultaneously both in England and Cali 
fornia. The partisans of one breeder ex¬ 
ploit his success in bombastic hifalutin, 
as if no one ever before bred a new 
color effect into a flowering plant; the 
other makes a direct and businesslike 
statement of what has been accomplished. 
What benefit is to be derived from gush 
and twaddle in horticultural announce¬ 
ment ? 
Variation Under Cultivation. —Varia¬ 
tion is to be expected when a fixed type 
of plant is taken from the natural condi¬ 
tions under which it has developed 
through countless ages of adaptation, and 
exposed to the widely changed conditions 
of modern cultivation, and to most diverse 
climatic influences. Suppressed characters 
come out. new ones appear as the struggle 
for existence is lightened and may often 
b intensified and fixed by intelligent 
selection. This is legitimate work for the 
plant breeder. An incalculable amount 
of it has already been done, and imagina¬ 
tion halts at the changes that may be 
brought about in the future. Among 
common flowers the annual Phlox, the 
Verbena, the Aster and the Zinnia, may 
be mentioned as striking examples of 
extreme diversification of color brought 
about within the memory of living gar¬ 
deners by selection, with little or no inter¬ 
vention from artificial hybridization. That 
a native plant should be so modified by 
a Californian breeder should be a matter 
of National pride, but the instance does 
not stand alone, nor does it partake of 
the -miraculous. 
Eschscholtzia Cai.ifornica, or Cali¬ 
fornia poppy, is the most ornamental of 
a Pacific Coast genus containing a dozen 
or more species of plants with finely cut 
bluish-green foliage and gay yellow 
poppy-like flowers. It is perennial in 
warm, dry climates, but is commonly 
grown in the North as an annual, sowing 
the seeds thinly where they are to bloom 
as the plants do not well bear transplant¬ 
ing. Few plants make a more pleasing 
show during the Summer months. A row 
of Eschscholtzias in the garden is sure 
to be appreciated for the gayety of bloom 
and the cleanness of foliage effect. The 
flowers open only during sunshine and 
are not lasting when cut but, but are 
freely and constantly produced. Mandarin 
is probably the best variety as it is very 
compact in growth and extremely bril¬ 
liant in its orange and scarlet coloring. 
Seeds may be had from all dealers for 
five cents the packet. The new pink kinds 
above noted are considerably more expen¬ 
sive and may be regarded as worthy 
novelties, more desirable than the now 
well-known Rose Cardinal, seeds of which 
are also freely offered at a low price. 
This and the other varieties have all been 
bred from the original species, E. Cali- 
fornica. w. v. F. 
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