THE SHASTA DAISY 
white in its petals as its distant Japanese 
relative, not so large as its English cousin—he 
would unite the three. In order that the very 
best results might follow, he searched through 
a number of states, as time and opportunity 
offered, getting the best native wild daisies 
from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey 
and Massachusetts, and from these best ones 
chose the best of them all. Sometimes, as 
happened in several instances with the daisy, 
he will be making a short journey by rail and, 
looking out the window, may see, as the train 
flashes by, some particularly striking patch of 
flowers. At the next station he gets out and 
either buys a ticket back to a station nearer 
the flowers or walks back to them, and then 
selects from them the choicest plants for use 
in some experiment under way. 
So from three continents he chose a daisy, 
the best he could get;—-from them he made 
a fourth, the most wonderful daisy ever seen. 
In setting out thus to make a new flower 
out of old ones, Mr. Burbank does not depend 
upon any rules laid down for him by some one 
else. While he is never destructive but always 
constructive, aiming to create new forms of 
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