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...price. This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations. It has also brought her a great diversity of works of art. At one time or another Mrs. Rockefeller has collected Japanese bird and flower prints, folk art, Amerindian paintings. New England primitives, Siamese sculpture...
...found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked...
...with nearly 60 petals and three inches across. This was the result of a chance mutation, an obscure dislocation of the hereditary mechanism of the sort that many a geneticist holds responsible for evolution. "The nasturtium was most carefully watched," said Grower Burpee, "in every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never went to seed." Because they are "female sterile," the flowers cannot be mated with one another. But not being "male sterile," their strain can be continued by using their...
...Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became...
...from Europe. His shamefaced but still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three...