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mand for interior decorations, partly because its 

 cut blossoms will last fully two weeks, whereas 

 those of dahlias, roses, and lilies usually become 

 quite unsightly after two or three days. 



Under no circumstances should the Shasta 

 daisy be grown from seed, unless it be for the 

 purpose of producing new varieties. No one 

 would raise Chinese or Japanese chrysanthe- 

 mums, roses, or carnations from seed, and hope 

 to obtain the beautiful forms and colors peculiar 

 to the selected plants. Strains produced by 

 hybridizing vary more or less; upon this, of 

 course, depends their chief value to the gardener 

 who wishes to produce new varieties; but from 

 the very fact of their mixed heritage these plants 

 will not breed true from seed. 



But they are readily propagated in any de- 

 sired quantity from the root of the mother plant. 



Reference has been made to the double forms 

 that have appeared among the seedlings. Some 

 of these bloom so freely as to destroy the vitality 

 of the plants, unless some of the buds are 

 removed. Other varieties have appeared with 

 long, slender, laciniate rays, giving the blossoms 

 a soft, feathery appearance; others, still, with 

 curious twisted ray-flowers, or with long, tubu- 

 lar, or drooping ones, or those that are curled 

 inward and upward, producing beautiful, cup- 



