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THE SHASTA DAISY 
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“Whose white investments figure tnnocence.”’—SHAKESPEARE. 
Being impressed with the beauty of the Shasta Daisy, its ease of culture and 
its great value for cut flowers, and in gardens, for borders and snowbank effect, 
our Mr. George Riegel, ten years ago began growing all known varieties and 
raising thousands of seedlings each year, discarding and weeding out the un- 
desirable, imperfect and weak varieties until today we believe our collection 
of new as well as old established varieties is the equal if not the superior of 
any in the country. 
He has not only been successful in giving the flower lovers a goodly lot 
of new, extremely hardy varieties, but has also improved a number of the old, 
well-known varieties through the selection of outstanding individual plants 
showing more perfect flowers, more hardy vigorous growth and increasing his 
stock from these worthwhile individuals. Among feee improved strains, we 
would mention Hartje & Elder, and Mayfield Giant. 
As you will note we have discontinued a number of varieties in this year’s 
list in favor of better sorts. We are listing eleven varieties which cover the 
types and seasons with early mid-season and late varieties. 
In his work with daisies, Mr. Riegel soon found out that many really beauti- 
ful varieties on the market were not hardy, but tender and not adapted to the 
eastern United States and particularly the South. So these tender varieties have 
been dropped in favor of the more hardy, resistant ones. Among the first 
varieties tested was Burbank’s Alaska. ‘This has since been superseded by better 
varieties, and is practically off the market. 
He also found that many growers were offering stock grown from seed 
which gives you a great variation in growth, size, shape of flowers and season 
of bloom. Also, in many cases you will have a considerable number of plants 
that will revert and be of little value. This lack of uniformity lowers their 
value for cut-flowers and garden display. So be sure in buying that your plants 
are either from divisions or rooted cuttings. In this you are sure of getting 
plants like the parent stock. 
In buying Daisies from us, you profit from our accumulated experience of 
many years, and our extensive trials and tests of all known varieties as well as 
our new originations. 
We have grown and shipped large quantities of Shasta Daisies. We are prob- 
ably the largest shippers of Daisies in the United States. The quality of our 
plants has been proven by our increasing business. 
We are grateful to our many friends and customers who have made our 
success possible. And we look forward with great pleasure to giving better 
service and plants of greater quality. 
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