1895. 



GARDENING. 



85 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM MRS. W C. EGAN. 



Constellation, grand pink; Mrs. G. A. 

 Magee, silvery pink; Mrs. G. M. Pull- 

 man, golden yellow, very large; Miss 

 Florence Pullman, white; Minerva, yel- 

 low, one of the best; Mrs. George West, 

 rose purple; Mrs. W. R. Merrian, soft 

 pink; Mayflower, white, long keeping; 

 Mrs. Jerome Jones, white, late; Niveus, 

 white, ivory white; Adele Merz, deep 

 rose; George W. Childs, velvety crimson. 



Good. Mr. Hicks Arnold, old gold; 

 Mr. A. G. Ramsey, Indian red; Mrs. E. 

 D. Adams, white; Mrs. John Ayeraan, 

 rose pink; Miss Annie Manda, white, 

 hairy; Christopher Columbus, dark 

 crimson, early; Beauty of California, 

 light pink, early; Partridge, terra cotta; 

 Baron Hirsch, crimson bronze, early; 

 Dorothy Toler, rose tipped red; L'Enfant 

 des Deux Mondes, white, hairj-; Gcorgi- 

 enne Bramhall, primrose yellow, early; 

 J. M. Kupper, bronze, early; Lillian Rus- 

 sel, silvery pink; Louis Boehmer, deep 

 pink; Mrs. James Eadie, silvery pink, 

 late; Pelican, white; R. M. Grey, terra 

 cotta, hairy; Thomas H. Brown, pink, 

 large; Silver Cloud, white and salmon, 

 \V. C. Cook, yellow; Lillian B. Bird, 

 shrimp pink; Eda Prass, salmon; Ada 

 Spaulding, pink, Mrs. G. H. Morgan, 

 yellow; Miss E. T. Hulst, pink, early; 

 Mutual Friend, white. 



Very late this year. Harry May, old 

 gold; Mrs. W. S. Kimball, creamy white; 

 Achilles, pink changing to white; Beau 

 Ideal, rose pink; Heron's Plume, white; 

 John Rossiter, yellow; Shenandoah, 

 chestnut brown; The Queen, white, and 

 Challenge, golden yellow. 



Other Varieties. Mrs. J. Hood Wright, 

 white, has run out; Edwin Molyneux, 

 chestnut crimson, is no good here; A. H. 

 Fewkes, rich yellow, is poor this year; C. 

 Shrimpton, bright crimson, is fair; Eider- 

 down, snow white, isn't much good; E. 

 Dailledouze, yellow, is good when it does 

 well; Inter Ocean, pearly white, isn't so 

 good this year; Great Republic, bronze, 

 is fair; Kioto, yellow, isn't much good; 

 Lady Playfair, pearl pink, is fair; Mrs. 

 \V. H. Trotter, is hard to make a good 

 plant of; Cesare Costa, is a fairly good 

 dark red; Lady Florence, rich yellow, has 



done badly; La France, pink, is out of 

 date; Mrs. C. Lanier, soft rose, isn't very 

 good this year; Mrs. H. McK. Twombly, 

 white; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, rose 

 madder, Mrs. J. Brown, rose pink, and 

 Mrs. J. G. Whilldin, yellow, are only 

 fairly good this season; Mrs. Alpheus 

 Hardy, white, is a good hairj- flower, but 

 the plant is a poor grower. 



ATo good. Esther Cleveland, deep rose, 

 Bonnie Marjorie, primrose yellow; Miss 

 G. H. Bates, clear yellow; Mrs. J. Dallas, 

 rich apricot; Robert Owen, yellow; 

 Shasta, white, and Wanlass, light pink. 



Wm. S. Egerton, 

 Landscape Architect and Superintendent 



of Parks. 



Albany, N. Y., Nov. 1.5, 1895. 



CnRySflUTflEMUMS OUT OP DOORS. 



My crysanthemuTiis have been very late 

 this season. Though I have three "Sep- 

 tember flowering" ones, they did not 

 come into blossom till late in October. 

 Over a dozen "early October flowering" 

 ones wei-e much behind this time. My 

 chrysanthemums are all in the open 

 ground, and I am not at all disturbed, 

 as so many of your subscribers seem to 

 be, by the fact that the greenhouse flowers 

 are so much finer. Grown out of doors 

 they are so much finer than almost any 

 other flower, and at the same time so 

 little trouble— as c mpared with roses, 

 for instance, or bulbs— that I am more 

 than satisfied with them. Mine have al- 

 ways had the black aphis until this year, 

 when I followed G.^rdening's suggestion 

 of severe hosing, and then there was not 

 a single insect on my plants. I cover 

 them with a light mulch of stable ma- 

 nure and hay during the winter, but I 

 presume they would be perfectly hardy 

 without that protection. How far north 

 will they live out of doors? X. 



South Jersey. 



The pompon and Chinese varie ies, if 

 established plants and planted in shel- 

 tered, well drained gardens, may be 

 grown out of doors as far north as Bos- 

 ton, but their bloom i.s uncertain, early 



fall frosts often destroying them before 

 they open. The Japanese sorts as a rule 

 are tender; at the same time, under a 

 mulching, many of them will live over 

 winter on Long Island. But hardiness is 

 one of the qualities our florists ignore in 

 raising new chrysanthemums. 



CflRYSflNTHEMUIVI MRS. W. C. EOflN. 

 This is a new variety raised by F. 

 nomer& Son, Lafayette, Ind., andnamed 

 in compliment to the lady of Egandale. 

 The flower is very large, measuring 10V4 

 inches over the top, of the Ada Spaulding 

 build. "The color," the raisers tell us, is 

 "crimson pink at the base, shading at 

 the apex to pale sulphur, suffused with 

 strawy buff on the outside of petals." 

 The plant is of medium height, and sturdy 

 growth, and has fine foliage, and it is an 

 early blooming variety, the first flowers 

 were cut from it this year Oct. 28. It has 

 been exhibited at Chicago and Cincinnati 

 and was awarded a first-class certificate 

 at each place; at Chicago it also cap- 

 tured the silver plate prize offered for the 

 best seedling in the tested classes. 



CftRySftNTHfclHUMS FOR CUT FLOWERS. 



Mr. E. Asmus, of West Hoboken, N. J., 

 is one of the most extensive chrysanthe- 

 mum growers for market in the country, 

 and one of the best. Any one who leads, 

 as he does, in the New York market, must 

 necessarily produce as fine flowers as the 

 art of man can grow; more than than 

 that, his varieties must be the best — 

 bold, distinct, full headed, stiffstemmed, 

 and well supplied with healthy foliage, 

 and the colors must be clean, clear, at- 

 tractive, and beautiful. Further, the 

 flowers must be of such substantial char- 

 acter as to submit to being packed in 

 baskets or boxes, carried into New York, 

 there unpacked and displayed for sale, 

 packed again and unpacked and set up in 

 the florist's store, without any apparent 

 injur}'. Only such kinds that will stand 

 this will pay the market growers to cul- 

 tivate, and such kindsareasemphatically 

 good for the amateur as for the florist. 

 Under date of Nov. 19, and while his 

 greenhouses are teeming with magnifi- 

 cent flowers, Mr. Asmus kindly prepares 

 and sends us the following list: 



The following varieties of chrj'santhe- 

 mums are, in my opinion, the best for 

 cut flower purposes: 



E.\RLY VARIETIES. 



White.— WLme. F. Bergmann, Mrs. H. 

 Robinson. 



Yellow. — Marion Henderson, J. E. La- 

 ger, Miss M. M. Johnson. 



Pink — Nemesis. 



Dark — Sunrise. 



MIDSEASON. 



White. — Niveus, Queen, Silver Cloud. 



Yellow. — H. L. Sunderbruch, Major 

 Bonnafibn, E. Dailledouze, W.H.Lincoln. 



Pink. — Helen Bloodgood, Maud Dean, 

 W. N. Rudd, Zulinda. 



LATE. 



White.— Mrs. Jerome Jones, Flora Hill. 

 Pink. — Erminilda. 



Yellow.— Yi. W. Rieman, Challenge, Dr. 

 Covert. E. Asmus. 



C«RySflNTflEMUM5-F0T PLANTS. 



We grow a large variety of chrysan- 

 themums in pots for home and green- 

 house decoration. Such plants must be 

 of sturdy, stocky habit, with stout, stifl' 

 flower stems, and an abundance of clean, 

 substantial foliage all the way up; but 



