Unblended Heredities 



The two dahlias shown in this direct color photograph 



print illustrate the freaks which heredity sometimes plays. 



Sometimes, when two widely separated strains of heredity are brought 



together in a single plant, or animal, the result is a blend; but 



in these dahlias, as will be seen, some of the petals take 



back to one line of ancestry while others take back, 



equally distinctly, to another. No man can 



predict the outcome when two separate 



strains of heredity are mixed. 



