Definition of Shasta daisy

1. Noun. Hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies; often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Shasta Daisy

sharpy
sharrow
sharrows
sharwal
sharwals
shash
shashed
shashes
shashing
shashlick
shashlicks
shashlik
shashliks
shaslik
shasliks
shasta daisy (current term)
shastasaurid
shastasaurids
shaster
shasters
shastra
shastras
shatei
shatei gashira
shatoosh
shatranj
shatter
shatter box

Literary usage of Shasta daisy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"... shasta daisy and Two of Its Parents slightly different from that shown on page six, the curving rays of The upper flower is a form of the shasta daisy ..."

2. Experiments with plants by Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1905)
"By selection of these a number of different kinds of exceeding beauty and interest have been secured, comparable 242- Double shasta daisy- ..."

3. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"THE shasta daisy How A TROUBLESOME WEED WAS REMADE INTO A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER HAVING, now, a broad general understanding of the work—of the underlying ..."

4. Luther Burbank: His Life and Work by Henry Smith Williams (1915)
"It was named the shasta daisy. Various series of experiments in selective breeding have ... In a word, the shasta daisy is not only a new form of flower, ..."

5. New Creations in Plant Life: An Authoritative Account of the Life and Work by William Sumner Harwood (1907)
"... VIII THE shasta daisy r |^HE green hills rising behind the house -*' where Luther Burbank was born were ever an inviting place in his boyhood days. ..."

6. New Creations in Plant Life: An Authoritative Account of the Life and Work by William Sumner Harwood (1905)
"... VIII THE shasta daisy r | ^HE green hills rising behind the house -*- where Luther Burbank was born were ever an inviting place in his boyhood days. ..."

7. Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School by Effie Young Slusser, Mary Belle Williams, Emma Burbank Beeson (1920)
"CHAPTER XII THE shasta daisy The little wild field daisy, that grew around Luther Burbank's childhood home, was considered by the farmers an evil thing, ..."

8. Practical Landscape Gardening: The Importance of Careful Planning, Locating by Robert B. Cridland (1920)
"... nudicaule Heliotrope Chieftain Chrysanthemum, shasta daisy ... and Old Age Iceland Poppy shasta daisy Evening Primrose White Blue Flag Japanese Barberry ..."

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