ANOTHER NEW POPPY 



Once a flower manifests a tendency 

 to vary there seems to be no limit to 

 the range of its variations. It would 

 be hard to say just what combination 

 of hereditary factors in the germ plasm 

 of the original Shirley led to its peculiar 

 departure from the traditions of its 

 tribe. But selective judgment enabled 

 these submerged color factors to make 

 themselves manifest, with the result 

 that a strikingly modified flower was 

 produced in the course of a few genera- 

 tions. This blue Shirley poppy cost me 

 nearly twelve years of most careful 

 selection. 



