Beaver County News | 1924-03-14 | Page 4 | Clores of Flowers Governed by Light

Colors of Flowers Governed by Light Some curious observations made In Manchester, England, indicate that light and temperature may have a determining de-termining influence on the colors of (lowers in different months. The observer noticed a tropaeclum, or nasturtium plant, which " showed three types of flowers yellow, yellow with red markings and claret-colored. Sometimes one type predominated and sometimes another. In the offspring of this plant he noticed that the particolored parti-colored and red flowers occurred only during fine, hot weather, in the second week of August, whereas during the cold, wet periods of July, September and October all the flowers were yellow. yel-low. By self-sterilizing the flowers of different dif-ferent colors he found that In the second sec-ond generation the color of the parental paren-tal flower had no determining effect, and be concludes that temperature and light are the governing Influences.