COLOUR PUZZLE IN FLOWERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 10

COLOUR PUZZLE IN FLOWERS.

MYSTERY OF BLUE AND YELLOW t,.2« eet + experts- in England are ijing to discover why no one type of huwer can be produced, both in yellow and blue varieties. ** .“Take any type of flower such as the rose, the danodil, the tulip, or any other, and you can be certain that if y u can get it in blue colouring you g e P, in yellow, and® vice steer pS? ld e an - ° fficial ° f the National Sweet Pea Society to a Daily Mail Sail We? th f Koyal wtiere the society’s twenty-fourth annual exhibition was WLen I say blue, I mean a real definite dark blue, and by yellow 1 Thermo!? 1 buttercup lue most blue-looking sweet pea we have achieved is a Jery paleKoking veMm’ the nearest approaohto f yellow is a cream sweet p^a. ar ® aim ing at producing a buttercup yellow sweet pea and a gentianbtZe’Zl’ but ? be *S?s before ve can hope to succeed. At J 6 n® ul ; e of - Northumerland’s house witt experimented with seeds from New Zealand, San P~the a "?„S CtiCa " y fra “ are—A S flnlf r,S f' veet pea developments dJ2s oot fl bn of a u orange colour that mSeS L b ? 171 or f , ade in the sun; impioved texture and ability of a flower to travel; a definite movement back to the sweetly fragrant sweet pet 0a ’> t 0