Shasta Daisy. 
One-half Natural Size 
THE SHASTA DAISY is one 
of the most marvelous pro- 
ductions in the flower line 
that has ever been brought 
to the notice of floriculturists. It is the 
first of a new type, which has been ob- 
tained by first combining the free-flower- 
ing American species with the large, but 
coarse, European species, and the Japanese 
species Nipponicum, after which rigid se- 
lection through a series of years has pro- 
duced the present wonderfully beautiful 
and useful strain. Its first qualification 
is hardiness: it can be grown out of doors 
by anybody where it is not cold enough to 
kill oak trees. It is perennial, blooming 
better and more abundantly each season. 
It can be multiplied rapidly by simple 
division, and it is not particular as to soil. 
It blooms for several months. The flowers 
are extremely large and graceful, averag- 
ing about four inches in diameter, with 
three or more rows of petals of the purest 
glistening whiteness, and are borne on 
single, strong, stilf, wiry stems, nearly 
two feet in length. The blooms when cut 
remain perfectly fresh and in good con- 
dition for two weeks or more. No other 
flower can compare with it in usefulness. 
Pks., 100 seeds, 10 cts. 
Discovered in South Africa by a collector of Orchids. The plant is of robust 
habit, with thick, dark, brown-purple, shining stems. The branches are nu- 
merous, spreading 3 or 4 feet; thick, large, dark green colored leaves. The flow- 
ers are trumpet-shaped, measuring 8 or 10 inches in length and 6 to 7 inches 
across the mouth, and form three distinct flowers growing each within the 
other. The mouth of the corolla is the most delicate white, beautifully 
marked with royal purple. A single plant gives from 200 to 300 fragrant 
blooms during the season, followed by a large, thorny seed vessel, which adds 
to its beauty; is of the easiest culture; plant at the end of May in a warm, rich 
soil; can be cultivated as an isolated specimen, in masses for center of beds, 
or to fill barren places, and produces a striking effect. Pkt, 15 seeds, 5 cts. 
Euphorbia. 
Marginata. 
( Snow - on- the- 
Mountain). Plants 
two feet high, with 
beautiful foliage, 
elegantly veined 
and margined with 
white; very showy. 
Per pkt. 5 cts. 
Euphorbia 
Mexican Fire Plant 
Heterophylla. 
The leaves are at 
first green, but at 
the end of each 
branch app ear 
greenish - white 
flowers, enveloped 
in beautiful orange- 
scarlet bracts, and 
leaves are blotched 
with vivid carmine. 
Pkt 10 cts. 
Mrs. Charles 
Piper, Union- 
villc. Conn., 
Feb'v U. 1908, 
writes: Glad to 
get your little 
book, yourseeds 
are fine. 
