NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
at every possible point, a vicious, persistent 
weed. When he had begun his market gar- 
dening and seed-raising, he frequently went to 
the hills for wild flower seeds, planting them 
in his garden and observing with curious inter- 
est how the plants sometimes varied from the 
parent plants. A certain chivalry, it may have 
been, a desire to reclaim the daisy from the 
company of the outcast weeds, caused him 
to include it also in his experiments. He 
found the daisy no less striking in its varia- 
tions than the other plants. 
There came a day in after years when he 
was to demonstrate again his interest in this 
little waif, to become its champion in a still 
larger way. For he had laid out in his mind a 
scheme for the ennoblement of this flower;— 
he would lift it from its low estate among the 
serfs and make it a queen. 
In England there grew a daisy larger than 
his little wild friend and coarser in stem and 
flower. In Japan grew another daisy, not 
large, but of exquisite purity of color and 
almost dazzling whiteness. On the Massachu- 
setts hills grew the American daisy, small, 
tenacious of life, hardy of constitution, not so 
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