Back in 1933, David Burpee, famous seed man of Philadelphia, got the idea that the plain, everyday stepchild of flowers could be made very beautiful and attractive. That stepchild was marigold, forlorn but little waif with a most unfortunat trait: an unpleasant odor. 

       So David Burpee set out to develop marigold that would titillate instead of shock te nostrils. He knew there just one way to do this and that was to find what botanists call a mutation, an individual flower, which by accident, doesn't have this unspleasent odor. So he sent all over the world for marigold seed and got 640 saperate cultures. He planted them and when they grew and blossomed, he pushed his nose against them and sniffed. Every single one had bad odor. Pretty discouraging, but he kept searching but finally a missionary far of him in Tibet  sent him some seed of marigold which was odorless but scrawny flowers.

       Davod Burpee crossed this with one of his large varieties and planted thirty five acres. When they were up and going strong he called his Foreman and gave order that made foreman think that David Burpee had gone crazy. He told his foreman to get down on his hands and knees and smell every plant in thirty five acres. If just one odorless plant with large flowers could be found, that would be all was needed."It would take me thirty five years to me to smell them all." Said the foreman. So the employment agencies  in that section were called up to be given an odor like they have never been received before, an order for two hundred flower smellers.

       This flower smellers come from everywhere and started to work. No one saw ever saw crazier sight, but David Burpee knewing what he was doing. At least, one day one of flower smellers come loping across the field to the foreman.

       "I have got it" he shouted. The foreman followed him to the place where the smeller had stuk down a peg. Sure enough, there wasn't a hint of unpleasant odor.