This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Oriental poppy. (4) Leaves like those of the opium poppy. (5) Nondescript leaves, variously suggestive of the leaves of primrose, cherry, dock, wormwood, dandelion, and scores of others. It is interesting to note that the blossoms of the second generation varied somewhat less than the leaves, although much more diversified than A Hybrid Poppy Mr. Burbank's experiments in hgbridizing the poppies are of exceeding interest. Here is a specimen of a cross between the opium poppg and the oriental poppg. The anomalous remits of this combination, of great interest to students of hereditg, are related in the text. the blossoms of the first generation. Some were double and of various shades of the opium poppy. The range of color included almost black, deep crimson, purple, light crimson, salmon shades, pink, white, and various combinations of these colors. Yet on the whole the color variation was not greater than that ordinarily found in the opium poppy. The second-generation plants seemed not to have the vitality shown by those of the first generation. There were exceptions to this, however, individual plants manifesting a vitality in excess of the average of the first-generation plants. Most of the second-generation hybrids that produced double blossoms proved to be annuals or biennials, partaking thus of the characteristic of the parent from which they derived their double-ness of blossom. This is perhaps what might have been expected. It is notable, however, that the quality of annual or biennial growth should have reappeared in these hybrids of the second generation, the first generation hybrids having been, as already noted, all perennials. But, on the other hand, some of the second generation hybrids were perennials, and have...