THE SHASTA DAISY 



How A Troublesome Weed Was Remade 

 Into a Beautiful Flowee 



HAVING, now, a broad general under- 

 standing of the work — of the underlying 

 principles, of the methods involved, and 

 of the possibilities — let us see just how several 

 striking transformations have been accom- 

 plished. 



There are many of these productions which 

 may be rated as much more important to the 

 world than those described; but these have been 

 selected because they reflect, better than others, 

 the various ways in which methods have been 

 combined to produce final, fixed results; thus 

 serving to give the reader a complete exposition 

 of working detail in the smallest possible space. 



We have given, for the first time, the exact 

 steps which we took in producing a number of 

 widely different plant transformations; together 

 with some observations on life — plant, animal, 

 and human. 



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