The Santa Rosa Rose 
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H. S. Garfield, M. D. Oregon. 
"There is nothing in floral creation to excel the 'Alaska' Shasta Daisy in profusion, 
and no marguerite in existence can hold up its head unabashed in 'Alaska's' dazzling 
presence. s | 
"The claims made for this daisy were so large that I would have discounted them, 
coming from most any other source. I now behold the facts and look upon the claims 
as modest. I am astounded at the plant. The big, white blooms completely blanket 
the bed and people passing in carriages and automobiles pause and rave over them. I 
cut 700 blooms yesterday from three plants without stripping them. The stems are 
long, wiry, stiff and just right to carry the big flower gracefully. The blooming season 
is heaviest in July, but continues until November. People heretofore indifferent to all 
single daisies and marguerites bow down at 'Alaska's' snowy shrine. 
"The wave undulating from the spot where you have cast this pebble into Nature's 
placid pool will radiate for centuries after the memories of the achievements of our 
Alexander or a Napoleon have passed into eternal shadow. This flower, or some of 
its progeny, will bloom on earth ages after this era has been forgotten. Nations will 
rise and fall; civilizations will wax and wane; religions die, be born again and be 
either stilled or nourished in the lap of science, but through it all the Shasta Daisy will 
smile upward in confidence toward the great, mysterious beyond into which its syn- 
thetical creator has been merged and go firmly and hopefully on in its manifest destiny 
to propagate its species forever. 
"H. S. GARFIELD." 
The Everblooming "Santa Rosa" Rose. 
