ON DAISIES 



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 pur- 

 pose of producing new varieties. No one would 

 raise Chinese or Japanese chrysanthemums, 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 desired 

 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, 

 lacinate rays, giving the blossoms a soft, feathery 

 appearance; others still with curious twisted ray- 

 flowers, or with long, tubular, or drooping ones, 

 or those that are curled inward and upward, pro- 

 ducing beautiful, cup-shaped blossoms; and all 

 these in double form like roses, carnations or 

 dahlias. 



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