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GARDENING. 



SOME OP THE NEWER CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



from say October 15 to November ">. 

 Here at Oconomowoc, Wiscorsin, wberc 

 I am staying jusi now, the first frost 

 sufficiently severe to chill gerar^iums 

 occurred to-day (November 5). There 

 are in many gardens clumps of the old 

 Annit Salter, Chevalier Domage and Reg- 

 ulus chrysanthemums that have stood 

 unscathed for j-tars. The following is a 

 capital list of early flowering ones: 



Yellow — Firenzi, Gloriosum, Eurus, 

 Marian Henderson and Rohallion. 



White.— Elaine, Harvest Queen, Soeur 

 Melanie, His Highness, Jessica, Mme. 



Hlvsh.— Lord Mavor, Jean Nicolas. 



Rose.— Viviand-M'orel. Sallie McClel- 

 land, Dawn. 



Red.— Salvator, Sec'y Barotte. 



Yellow and IJronze.- Vice-President 

 Hardy. M. Fred L'Usmayer, M. Francois 

 Katner, M. B. Jung. 



PcRPLE.— Amaranth, John Thorpe, Bo- 

 hemia. Jonx Thorpe. 



Chicago. 



CHRySflNTHEMUMSlNTflBBROOiayNFflRKS. 



In the greenhouses here there is now a 

 fine display of chrysanthemums. The ex- 

 hibition is for the benefit of the public at 

 l;irge, and the people are showing their 

 appreciation of the floral display by 

 crowding the gre nhouscs daily, as many 

 as 2,000 persons have passed through 

 them in a day. 



We have ninety-five varieties of chrys- 

 anthemum, and all of them are pretty 

 good kinds; about twenty of them are 

 ])rime, and some twenty-five we will dis- 

 card for reasons such as bearing small 

 flowers, having large yellow eyes, being 

 too loose and weak in habit, or weak in 

 the neck, or too long in the joints, for not 

 forming compact plants for growing in 



limited space, etc. We don't grow the 

 plants for cut flowers, but as pot plants 

 for conservatory decoration only; this 

 being a public garden we wish to get up 

 as good a show of flowers on growing 

 plants as we can, and keep it up as long 

 as we can. 



The plants were grown in pots all sum- 

 mer, the pots were plunged in frames out 

 of doors, and the plants repotted from 

 time to time as they required it. They 

 were removed to the greenhouse early and 

 some extra care given to them. 



Extra good varieties.— The following 

 list contains the names of the extra good 

 varieties— both new and old— that I have 

 found to be most worthy of growing for 

 the purpose of making a good, bright 

 and pretty shovi- in a public conservatory: 



Bride of Roses, CuUingfordii, Edward 

 Hatch, Eda Prass, Etoile de Lyon. F. 

 Thorlcy, F. Thomson, Golden Wedding, 

 Good Gracious, Harrv VTav, Ivory, Jes- 

 sica. Lilian Bird. Lilly M. thomas, Miss 

 K. R. Gordon, Miss M. Wanamaker.Mrs. 

 A |. Drexel, Mrs. C. Lanier, Mrs L. C. 

 Madeira, Pitcher & Manda, Pres. W. R. 

 Smith, Waban, W. H. Lincoln. Wm. 

 Brown, Vesuvius, Viviand-Morel. 



Varieties I shall discard lor reasons 

 given above are: 



Ada H. LeRoy, .\ugust Rose, Ben Har- 

 rison, Catherine Shaw, Edna Craig, 

 Elaine, Frank Wilcox, Grace Hill, Jeanne 

 d'Arc, Joseph Bamard, J. T Duryea, Joey 

 Hill, Louis Bochmer, Mmc. R.Owen, Mrs. 

 I. C. Price, Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. W. Baker, 

 Red Robin, Titmouse, Yellow Hammer, 

 Vieil d'Or, Westwood, White Cap, Wm. 

 Reid and W. W. Coles 



David C. Thomson (Head gardener). 



Prospect Park, Brooklvn, N. Y., No- 

 vember S, 'O-t. 



fl DOZEN FlNECHRySftNTflEMUMS. 



I look upon the following varieties as 

 the best twelve chrysanthemums to grow 

 in a greenhouse: 



IT'Aite— Ivory, Queen, Niveus. 



\eUo\v — Yellow Queen, W. H. Lincoln, 

 Eugene Dailledouze. 



Pink — Viviand-Morel, Maud Dean, 

 Pres W. R. Smith. 



Crimson or dark— G. W. Childs, R. Mc- 

 Innes, Wm. Seward. E. AsMUS. 



West Hoboken, N. J., Oct. 31, 1894. 



Early-blooming Chrysanthemums 

 for outdoor cultivation.— dr. h. p. 

 Walcott, of Cambridge, Mass., and one 

 of the pioneers of chrysanthemum grow- 

 ing in this country, used to grow all the 

 promising early-blooming varieties out of 

 doors, and twelve or fourteen years ago 

 with better success than we have seen 

 elsewhere as farnorth as Boston. Under 

 date of November 4 he writes us: "I 

 have no early chrysanthemums which for 

 a succession "of years have served me well. 

 The most promising of the recent addi- 

 tions is M. Gustave Grimswald, but I 

 can not preserve the newer kinds in open 

 culture for more than a couple of years." 



fl DOZEN GOOD C«RySflNTflEMUMS. 



[see page 73.] 



I have taken a dozen of the finest flow- 

 ers, one of a kind, that are in bloom here 

 and had them photographed lor Garden- 

 ing. Everyone of them is of exquisite 

 form and beauty, and all are good vari- 

 eties for general cultivation for any pur- 

 pose; indeed although they are of recent 

 introduction they all aie'improvements 

 in their class. 



1. Mrs Charles Lanier.— A large, 

 fine, globular, slightly incurved flower of 



