LUTHER BURBANK 



but through the blends, new characteristics, prob- 

 ably 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 combination, we produce the seed 

 for a new daisy reflecting every conceivable blend 

 of those different heredities. 



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When we plant this seed the following spring, 

 we shall have pure orange daisies and pure white 

 daisies, pink ones, purple ones, yellow ones; 

 daisies large and daisies small; daisies with big 

 black centers, and daisies in which the centers are 

 colored the same as the outside edges. 



We shall find some a deeper orange than 

 the orange daisy because the balance which has 

 determined the established shade of orange has 

 been upset. 



We shall find purer whites than the white 

 daisy ever knew as a result of the upset. 



We shall find daisies with petals whose color 

 front and back is the same, and daisies with 

 different colors inside and out. 



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



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