A SEMIDOUBLE DAISY 



The tendency to variation induced in 

 the progenitors of the Shasta daisy 

 through hybridization is manifested in 

 a great variety of ways. Here is a 

 specimen in which the ray flowers are 

 multiplied in number and some of them 

 curiously altered in form. Such a 

 specimen as this became the progenitor 

 of an altogether double Shasta, the ray 

 flowers gradually supplanting the seed- 

 bearing organs at the center of the 

 flower. 



