LUTHER BURBANK 
but through the blends, new characteristics, prob- 
ably never seen before, will show themselves. 
Here we have taken two plants which, since 
the beginning, have been storing up traits; each 
working out its own destiny; each separated from 
the other, perhaps by a mountain range or a lake, 
and thus never before brought to a place where 
those heredities could combine; then in a single 
season, through combination, we produce the seed 
for a new daisy reflecting every conceivable blend 
of those different heredities. 
When we plant this seed the following spring, 
we shall have pure orange daisies and pure white 
daisies, pink ones, purple ones, yellow ones; 
daisies large and daisies small; daisies with big 
black centers, and daisies in which the centers are 
colored the same as the outside edges. 
We shall find some a deeper orange than 
the orange daisy because the balance which has 
determined the established shade of orange has 
been upset. 
We shall find purer whites than the white 
daisy ever knew—as a result of the upset. 
We shall find daisies with petals whose color 
front and back is the same, and daisies with 
different colors inside and out. 
We shall, in short, find all of the old inherit- 
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