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be recessive to any and every other color; that 

 blue would stand next in line of recessive- 

 ness; and that violet and red would be more 

 or less on a par as colors of preeminent 

 dominance. 



White, according to theory, should be 

 dominant to green and blue, but should itself 

 be recessive or hypostatic when brought in com- 

 bination with red or with violet. As a corrobo- 

 rative illustration, note that our blue poppies, 

 crossed with white poppies, produce only white 

 progeny. 



It would also appear that the factors for 

 yellow and for blue, which are really balanced or 

 masked to produce the color white, might be 

 segregated if a white flower were combined with 

 another white flower or with a flower of a 

 different color, white perhaps disappearing 

 altogether and being represented only by its 

 disunited elements. 



Moreover, we have already seen that where 

 various colors are segregated, two dominant 

 colors such as red and yellow being brought 

 together in the same unit system, the two may 

 neutralize each other and fail of tangible repre- 

 sentation; just as the colors gray and black are 

 known to do in the color scheme of the coat of 

 the mouse. 



