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but of the families of the two species, and 

 of the individuals of those families: mixed, 

 upset, disturbed so thoroughly that not only 

 will the life history of bath parents be laid 

 bare in the resulting plants, but through the 

 blends new characteristics, probably 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 combinations, we produce 

 the seed for a new daisy reflecting every con- 

 ceivable blend of those different heredities. 



When we plant this seed the following spring, 

 we shall have pure orange daisies, pure white 

 daisies, perhaps pink ones, yellow ones; daisies 

 large and daisies small; daisies with big black 

 centers, and daisies in which the centers are col- 

 ored the same as the rays. 



We shall find some a deeper orange than the 

 orange daisy because the balance which has de- 

 termined the established shade of orange has 

 been upset. 



We shall find purer whites than the white daisy 

 ever knew — as a result of the combination. 



