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branches five or six feet in length. If planted late it grows about 

 three or four feet high, and comes into bloom the same time as that 

 which was planted early; the flowers are just as large and the plants 

 more easy to manage when not so tall. When planted in the late 

 fall it comes into bloom when the plants iare about one foot high, 

 and the flowers are small. 



"There are white and pink flowers with full, round petals, slightly 

 incurved, very large, resembling camellias, pink and white frilled 

 ones, with very large, broad petals with edges fringed; these 

 resemble romneya coulteri or California tree poppy; flowers in 

 pink, white and mauve, with plain round petals and large, flat eye, 

 having a waxen appearance and yet much resembling Anemone Ja- 

 ponica, in large and small sizes, the larger ones having broad-plaited 

 peals; flowers with a maroon ring around the eye; large pink and 

 white star-like flowers; charming crimson flowers of infinite variety 

 of shape, measuring four and five inches across; white flowers with 

 a delicate mauve ring around the eye. Indeed, there are so many 

 beautiful combinations of shapes, shades and colors that I cannot 

 find language to properly describe them." 



Cosmos plants can be started under cover, or somewhat later, 

 may be sown in the open ground. The plant is easily grown, the 

 essential being to give the plants room enough. It is not best to 

 force to extreme size unless one wishes a screen of beautiful foliage 

 and securely stakes the plants. Our greatest achievement for size 

 was blown flat one year by,the first autumn rainstorm. 



Daisies. The term "daisy" is hardly descriptive of anything, but 

 it is still in use as a popular name. The old English daisy, (Bellis) 

 the low-growing rosette, will grow freely in California with any 

 sort of planting and, lacking that will plant itself. It is still favored 

 in small gardens for an edging, although it has no idea of staying 

 in that form. Some of the asters are also "daisies," and they have 

 the aster habit, as already indicated. The most useful "daisies" in 

 California at the present time are those of chrysanthemunvancestry, 

 produced by Mr. Luther Burbank. They are exceedingly satisfactory 

 to the amateur, as they are easily grown from seed or by division 

 of the roots and they will endure much neglect, although, of course, 

 the full size of bloom, which is about four inches indiameter, is only 

 to be had by giving the plant room and light and plenty of water 

 in the dry season. Still maximum size is not essential and unless 

 one's garden lies in the lines of soot-blows he will get grand, glisten- 

 ing-white blooms in great profusion on long, strong stems, which 

 enable the decorator to dispose the blossom very gracefully and 

 effectively. Mr. Burbank's Shasta daisy group has to some extent 

 displaced the old "marguerite" the woody chrysanthemum species 



