DEVELOPING CHARACTERS 189 



We shall find daisies with rays whose color 

 front and back is the same, and daisies with dif- 

 ferent colors inside and out. 



We shall, in short, find all of the old inherit- 

 ances of the flower and of the combinations of 

 them — all of the colors, shapes, sizes, forms, ele- 

 ments of strength or weakness — uncovered be- 

 fore us. 



And between the white and the orange we 

 have but to select the particular flower of our 

 fancy. 



If the flower we select, perchance, showed 

 some weakness, or if its tint were a little too light 

 or too dark, or if for any other reason among 

 this infinite color variation we did not find the 

 exact result we sought, another season or still an- 

 other would surely bring it forth; for next year, 

 instead of planting white and orange, we should 

 plant a selection of our new daisies, and instead 

 of getting a combination of two parentages, we 

 should get a combination of combinations. 



Then, having secured the color called for in 

 our original mental blue print, we might find 

 structural improvements to make in the flower — 

 we might want to increase its height or to 

 lengthen the daily period of its opening, or to 

 rearrange its rays into a more chrysanthemum- 

 like form, or to increase or decrease the size of 



