ON PEACHES AND NECTARINES 
had leaves of pure green, but a small proportion 
showed leaves of an intermediate color. 
Looking at the row of seedlings from a short 
distance one would hardly perceive anything but 
a line of deep crimson or purple. Some of the 
individual seedlings were much darker than the 
parent, being fully as dark as the original purple- 
leaved peach. Most of the seedlings resemble the 
peach in foliage, but some have longer and more 
pointed leaves like the almond parent, and these 
grow more rapidly than the others and have a 
more upright appearance, in this respect also 
resembling the almond. 
Although the exact parentage of the hybrids 
of the later generations of this combination of the 
almond and the purple-leaved peach was not 
traceable, and although no close record was kept 
of precise numbers, it will be obvious that the 
result of the first cross showed that, as between 
green leaves and purple leaves, in the relations 
of these two species, the influence of the green leaf 
was prepotent or dominant. 
This is perhaps what one would expect, con- 
sidering that green is the normal color of leaves, 
and purple exceptional. 
The reappearance of the purple leaf in later 
generations is, of course, precisely what would be 
expected of a recessive character. 
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