Another Shirley Poppy Variation 



The Shirley poppy differs from its wild progenitor in 

 that it has varied from the original red color to a pale pink and 

 even to a pure white; and in particular in having lost the black 

 central portion of the flower that is so characteristic in the wild corn 

 poppy. The true Shirleys are characterized by the entire absence of 

 black they have not the smallest fleck of it about them. But 

 the mixture of color-factors in their germ plasm is re- 

 vealed in the striking tendency to variation in un- 

 predictable directions, of which this speci- 

 men gives a good illustration. 



