PRODUCING AN ENTIRELY 



NEW COLOR 



OTHER IMPORTANT WOEK WITH 

 THE POPPIES 



FOB some reason blue is not as common as 

 other colors among flowers. 



There are notable and conspicuous ex- 

 ceptions, of course, but for every species of blue 

 flower in nature there are hundreds of flowers 

 that are yellow, red, or white. 



Presumably the color blue does not attract the 

 eye of the insect so strikingly as do the other 

 primary colors. Flowers are not green for the 

 obvious reason that, since leaves in general are 

 green, flowers of that color would blend with the 

 foliage, and thus defeat the primal purpose of 

 the floral envelope. 



And, no doubt, blue is a color nearer to green 

 in its hue or general aspect than are the reds and 

 yellows. 



So it is perhaps not surprising that natural 

 selection has weeded out the blue flowers and 



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