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THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD 
seeds would produce only beautiful flowers. 
Then he gave the seed to others, and soon there 
were shasta daisies growing in gardens all over 
the country. He named the flower for Mt. 
Shasta, a beautiful mountain peak in Cali¬ 
fornia, which is covered with shining white 
snow all through the year. 
Botanists call a flower like the shasta daisy a 
hybrid because it is produced by crossing the 
pollen of different kinds of plants, and it inherits 
the best points of each. Most hybrids are 
formed only by two kinds of plants. The shasta 
daisy is unusual because it comes from three. 
