THE following quotations will show how THE ORIGINAL SHASTA 
WAS RECEIVED 
Luther Burbank's Splendid New Daisy, 
“ SHASTA ” 
We cultivate more than thirty varieties of the beautiful 
new Moon Daisies, but “ Shasta/' which has come to us 
from across the Atlantic, must be awarded the premier 
honors. In justification of this claim we specify, first, the 
absolute purity of the spotless white petals, the breadth 
and number of which is quite abnormal, the pleasing and 
refined yellow of the disc, the long slender stalk, 
unencumbered with a host of buds, which have become 
rather tiresome in some varieties, the earliness and length 
of the flowering season, and the absolute hardiness, vigor 
and profusion of the plant. 
Isaac House & Son, 
Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England. 
£ 
The Shasta Daisy is one of the most marvelous 
productions in the flower line that has ever been brought 
to the notice of floriculturists. 
James Vick's Sons, 
Rochester, New York. 
An Early Report 
Tuckswood Farms, 
Norwich, England, July, 1902. 
At present I see no difference between the “ Shasta " 
and our improved Chrysanthemum maximum. 
Robert Holmes. 
Later Report from Same Source 
November, 1903. 
The Shasta Daisy will produce four times as much 
bloom as any other variety, and when cut, this will remain 
in a fresh condition for fully a fortnight, which makes it 
a unique flower for decoration. Plants will bloom in six 
months from time the seed is sown, while the varieties of 
Maxima will only bloom the second year from seed. The 
Shasta Daisy will succeed in any soil, and is perfectly 
hardy, it is perennial, blooming better and more abundantly 
each season, and may be multiplied by simple division of 
the root. 
Robert Holmes, F. R. H. S., 
Tuckswood Farms, Norwich, England. 
