AND HIS PLANT SCHOOL 59 



from the snow-capped peak of northern California, Shasta, 

 meaning white, or whiteness. 



One of the peculiar habits of this wonderful new daisy 

 is, that, unlike its ancestors, it never seeds itself, producing 

 only a few large seeds; therefore it never has, and never 

 will, become the pest that it was in the wild. A self-sown 

 daisy has never been found in the plant school. The mas- 

 ter's work there is not only to teach good qualities but to 

 expel bad ones. The daisy was induced to drop her one 

 bad habit of spreading. 



To this stately daisy Burbank has added a double daisy, 

 by selection alone; choosing each year those that show a 

 tendency to become double. The petals crowded closer 

 and closer together as the selections were made each year, 

 until a pure white, perfectly formed blossom was obtained; 

 a more than rival of the chrysanthemum, as the daisy 

 blooms from five to seven months in the year. Three 

 strains of this daisy were perfected the Alaska, the Cali- 

 fornia, and the Westralia. Another, newer still, is a beau- 

 tiful fringed daisy, far finer even than any of the others. 



