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thrived. The French began immediately to 
plant American grapes. However, these grapes 
are not sweet enough to make good wine. 
Therefore they grafted their French vines to 
the American roots. Now these grapes are 
just as they were before the disease attacked 
them. You could not tell the difference in the 
fruit, but the roots are strong and healthy. 
Grafting saved the French vineyards. 
The big, brilliantly white shasta daisy is not 
a natural flower, but one that was created from 
three less attractive daisies. Luther Burbank, 
a world-famous experimenter with plants, im¬ 
proved and changed many plants in a way that 
seems almost like magic by using a method 
called “crossing.” He had always been fond 
of daisies, but the American field daisy is not a 
very beautiful flower. It is strong and hardy 
and has a great many blossoms, but they are 
small and straggly. The stems are crooked and 
not very tall. In England there was a daisy 
much larger than ours with coarser stems and 
flowers. In Japan, there was a small daisy 
Burban\ 
created the 
Shasta Daisy 
How did Burban\ 
produce the 
shasta daisy? 
