THE SHASTA DAISY 
more out of the twelve; under specially fa- 
vorable conditions, throughout the whole year. 
An extremely interesting feature of the 
new flower is that it seems to have lost all 
its bad habits. Where once it was, at the best, 
a pest to be dreaded, multiplying with remark- 
able rapidity and driving absolutely necessary 
food products to the wall, it now keeps itself 
apart from the weeds of its ancestry in a cer- 
tain aristocratic exclusiveness. It produces 
but very little seed and that large in size. 
Mr. Burbank has grown millions of the plants 
in his tests, but a self-sown daisy has never 
appeared upon his grounds. 
The flower itself is one of remarkable 
beauty, a rare, well-nigh brilliant white of 
great size, the center a pure yellow, with long, 
graceful stems. It is not only highly decora- 
tive in the mass, forming a magnificent note 
in garden or lawn, but it lends itself with a 
grace all its own to the bride at the altar or 
for the last tender tribute to the dead. From 
the first time he saw it, Mr. Burbank had 
always held in deep veneration Mount Shasta, 
a snow-capped peak of the high Sierras, one 
of the conspicuous landmarks of California. 
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