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they should be drenched with water, and a uni- 

 formly moderate supply of moisture should be 

 maintained. 



If these instructions are followed, even the 

 smallest, most unpromising cutting may develop 

 into superior plants. When the slips are strongly 

 rooted, they should be placed in a sunny place in 

 rows eighteen inches to two feet one way by three 

 or four feet the other. They should be thoroughly 

 watered and treated like other garden plants. 

 During July, August, and September each of the 

 original cuttings should bear from twenty-five to 

 fifty large,, beautiful white blossoms. During the 

 second season the best varieties should produce 

 from one hundred to two hundred blossoms, meas- 

 uring ordinarily from three to six inches in 

 diameter. 



For the production of new varieties, Shasta 

 daisy seed may be sown thickly in boxes of sandy 

 soil or in out-of-door beds in California. If the 

 seeds are those from the improved varieties, the 

 resulting seedlings will bloom the first season, 

 although the older varieties did not bloom till the 

 second season, and then not as abundantly as these 

 do the first. But the seedlings will form a motley 

 company, many of them reverting to ancestral 

 forms and departing widely from the characteris- 

 tics that have made the fame of the Shasta daisy. 



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