ON DAISIES 



We shall find reason to believe that even the 

 white flower is not as a rule white because it lacks 

 the factors for color pigmentation, but because it 

 mingles these factors in such a way that they 

 mutually antagonize, or neutralize, or "mask" one 

 another. 



In this view, then, the production of a pink 

 African daisy through the hybridizing of an orange 

 and a white one may be regarded not as an anom- 

 alous phenomenon but as a typical one — albeit the 

 experiment has a good measure of interest none 

 the less. 



Variation of Color in Flowers 



The fact of color variation in the flowers is, 

 as just stated, too obvious to escape notice of the 

 least observant. A good many people, however, 

 are unaware of the wide range of variation shown 

 among wild species. 



It is sometimes assumed that color variation is 

 due to the cultivation of plants; and, of course it 

 is true that cultivation has resulted in developing 

 races of flowers of diversified colors. But it is not 

 to be supposed that these colors could have been 

 developed in the short period during which the 

 plants have been under cultivation had not the 

 materials for color variation been present in the 

 various hereditary strains. 



And it requires but the briefest search among 



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