Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . oduce the enormous numbers re([uired to replantlarge parts of the present deserts. But wliile multiphcationmay be slow in the beginning, after some years it will go onso rapidly that the practical result may not be so far off as itnow seems to be. Burbank gladly indulges in the prospectswhich may then be reahzed, and it seems hardly possible tooverestimate the greatness of the benefit he will have con-ferred upon mankind. As another instance, the Shasta daisies may be meadows, some large flowering kinds of daisies, o
Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . oduce the enormous numbers re([uired to replantlarge parts of the present deserts. But wliile multiphcationmay be slow in the beginning, after some years it will go onso rapidly that the practical result may not be so far off as itnow seems to be. Burbank gladly indulges in the prospectswhich may then be reahzed, and it seems hardly possible tooverestimate the greatness of the benefit he will have con-ferred upon mankind. As another instance, the Shasta daisies may be meadows, some large flowering kinds of daisies, or mar-guerites, are often seen, covering the green carpet like a finewhite cloth. They are as bright as many good garden flowers,but on account of their commonness as wild plants, theyrequire some improvement before being capable of attract-ing attention on introduction. They belong to the genusChrysanthemum, which includes the Japanese marigold andother ornamental species. Burbank has introduced into hisfarm cultures a Japanese species closely related to the mar-. 197 198 PLANT-BREEDING guerites of the meadows, but surpassing them by the daz-zling whiteness of their flowers and some other striking quaH-tics. These he has crossed with the EngHsh daisy, which haslarge flowers and stiff stems, and with the American daisy ofthe New England states, which is tenacious of life and hardyof constitution, but not very white. By crossing these three,
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