THE SHASTA DAISY 
HREE years ago (1901), when the first Shasta Daisy was announced, the broad, definite and 
unmistakable claims made for it were received with some incredulity by those who have so often 
been deceived by the professional promoters of ancient "Novelties 
The next year (1902), however, when the plants had become established and commenced to exhibit their 
real merits, orders for plants and seeds came rapidly by mail, telegraph and cable from all parts of the world, 
and more than five thousand times as much stock was sent out; last year (1903) fully one hundred thousand 
times as much stock was ordered. Meantime seedling plants by the hundred thousand were being raised 
and tested on my grounds at Santa Rosa and Sebastopol from the very cream of each season’s selection, and 
now I have the pleasure of offering three varieties of a new strain of the Shasta Daisies, " ALASKA 
“ CALIFORNIA ” and “ WESTRALIA These are as great an advance over the original Sitasta as 
that was over all the Moon-penny Daisies then known. " Shasta ” embodied the highest type of grace, beauty, 
abundance of bloom, hardiness and keeping qualities. The effort since has been to give the strain increased 
vigor and perpetual blooming qualities and in the three now offered about all that could be desired has been 
added. 
Time and space forbids the publication here of the long list of high appreciations bestowed upon 
“ Shasta" from Alaska to New Zealand, and from Siberia to South Africa, by many of the most prominent 
florists of the world. 
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