Chrysanthemums. 361 



question, the labor involved being out of all proportion to the value of 

 the results. Workers in cultivated plants know that completeness is 

 practically impossible in such tasks. I can only hope that the selection 

 I have given covers the essentials of the subject, and represents the 

 most important articles puWished in the periodicals cited. 



ENGLISH PERIODICALS. 



The Gardeners^ Chronicle, — 



Taylor, March, 1851, p. 183. No reference is made to the relative 

 value of early and late buds. 



Wm. Holmes, January, 1859, p. 23. This is the earliest mention 

 known to me at present of the different values of early and late buds, 

 and the first use of ''terminal" in this special sense. The word 

 "lateral," I take it, is here used as we use ''crown" to day. 



R. Fleming, September, 1869, p. 942. This is the first mention of 

 the word " crown " in chrysanthemum culture that I know of, but the 

 term is not yet specialized into the definition quoted previously in 

 italics at page 349 of this bulletin. '• Some of the shoots will be found 

 to be more forward than others, and are apt to bloom before them, 

 but by judicious disbudding this may be avoided. This is effected by 

 nipping out the crown or earliest bud of the earliest shoots, leaving a 

 good side bud [He means, I think, a vegetative shoot such as A in 

 figure 180. — W. M.], and retaining the crown or earliest bud of the 

 late shoots; this will cause all the buds to be equally forward." 



W. Hinds, March, 1879, p. 376. The writer says that "crown 

 terminals " are favored in the north, and " terminals " in the south. 



Editorial, November, 1893, p. 592. This explains that with botan- 

 ists a terminal bud. is at the end of a stem, but that chrysanthemum 

 growers use the term with reference to time, not to position. " For 

 them the terminal is the last bud formed, not the first." The word 

 " final " is suggested to avoid confusion. 



J. Douglas, November, 1893, p. 620. An extract from this article 

 has been quoted at page 352 as a type of misleading writing. 



E. Molyneux, May, 1895, p. 584. 



E. Molyneux, August, 1896, p. 248. This is the earliest picture 

 known to me at present of a crov/n bud in any English journal. 



