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ese form, and the abundant bloom of the American sister 

 have given the basis of the combination. After this, selection 

 was made for size and shape and superior whiteness, and a 

 variety was produced in which the green tufts of foUage were 

 covered during a large part of the spring and the summer 

 with crowded, bright white blossoms. This new and, on 

 account of its easy propagation, cheap garden flower received 

 the name of Shasta daisy, after the snowy mountain of that 

 name in northern Cahfornia. 



The European marguerites are well known for their 

 high degree of variabihty, and they have transmitted it to 

 their hybrid progeny. In combination with the characters 

 derived from the other parents, this fact opens the possibihty 

 of producing a considerable number of secondary types. 

 One of them excels by nicely cup-shaped flower heads, 

 another by tubular ray-florets. Some show a tendency to 

 become double, and in others, valuable, or at least curious 

 marks, are still awaiting selection. Long rows of these 

 bright blossoms were in full bloom at the time of my visit, 

 and many of them were marked by httlc ribbons in order to 

 save their seed separately afterwards. 



The Heuchera may be cited as a parallel with the Shasta 

 daisy, though their culture is only in its beginning. The 

 garden species of this genus, Heuchera sanguinea, has long 

 but slight spikes of small bright flowers of a blood red color. 

 It is not a very striking plant, making beautiful tufts only by 

 very successful culture. It affords a promising material for 

 amelioration, but unfortunately, its wild congeners are very 

 inconspicuous plants with pale greenish or small wliite 

 flowers. Burbank, however, discovered, on one of his ex- 

 cursions through the Cahfornian forests, a local variety of 

 the common Heuchera micrantha. This is a nice little 

 plant, growing abundantly along the rivulets in the woods. 

 He found a plant with crisped leaves and decided to combine 



