LUTHER BURBANK 



stand next in line of recessiveness ; and that violet 

 and red would be more or less on a par as colors 

 of pre-eminent dominance. 



White, according to theory, should be 

 dominant to green and blue, but should itself 

 be recessive or hypostatic when brought in com- 

 bination with red or with violet. As a corrobo- 

 rative illustration, note that Mr. Burbank's blue 

 poppies, crossed with white poppies, produce only 

 white progeny. 



It would also appear, that the factors for yellow 

 and for blue, which are really balanced or masked 

 to produce the color white, might be segregated 

 when a white flower is combined with another 

 white flower or with a flower of a different color, 

 white perhaps disappearing altogether and being 

 represented only by its disunited elements. 



Moreover, we have already seen that where 

 various colors are segregated, two dominant colors 

 such as red and yellow being brought together in 

 the same unit system, the two may neutralize each 

 other and fail of tangible representation; just as 

 the colors gray and black are known to do in the 

 color scheme of the coat of the mouse. 



The practical working out of the scheme is 

 revealed in numerous cases that we have already 

 examined. 



Thus union of our yellow poppy with a white 



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