Unblended Heredities 
The two dahlias shown in this direct color photograph 
print illustrate the freaks which heredity sometimes plays. 
Sometimes, when two widely separated strains of heredity are brought 
together in a single plant, or animal, the result is a blend; but 
in these dahlias, as will be seen, some of the petals take 
back to one line of ancestry while others take back, 
equally distinctly, to another. No man can 
predict the outcome when two separate 
strains of heredity are mixed. 
