FIXING GOOD TRAITS 



like the original because they were in a sense 

 a part of it, my entire series of experiments 

 in developing the new daisy would have been 

 unavailing except for still further selection. But 

 as the case stands, it was possible rapidly to 

 develop an entire race of Shasta daisies by 

 root-division, and thanks to this method the 

 descendants, or, to speak somewhat more accu- 

 rately, the sisters of the original Shasta daisy have 

 become an enormously populous race, scattered to 

 the remotest parts of the earth. 



Several other types of Shastas have been 

 developed by new breeding experiments from the 

 original stock, but to this day the race of Shasta 

 daisies must be propagated from the root, and not 

 grown from seed, unless one desires a conglom- 

 erate progeny, departing in many ways from the 

 form and quality of the immediate ancestor. 

 Fixing a Type 



In all this, it must be recalled, the Shasta daisy 

 does not differ from a large number of long- 

 established cultivated plants that are everywhere 

 recognized as being "fixed" races. 



One does not produce apples or pears or 

 cherries or plums or blackberries or potatoes or 

 sugar cane or horse radish, to say nothing of roses, 

 ornamental shrubs and a great number of flower- 

 ing plants, from seed. 



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