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GARDENING. 



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VIEW OF CHRYSANTHEMUM EXHIBITION AT POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y. 



Miscellaneous. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM COLORS DECORflTIVELY 

 CONSIDERED. 



Among the multitude of chrysanthe- 

 mums it does uot seem improbable that 

 some confusion may arise in the florist's 

 mind regarding the true merit of a single 

 type. A certain flower may carry with 

 it all the excellence which the horticultur- 

 ist or the florist desires, yet the exact 

 aesthetic merit of this flower may be an 

 open question in the minds of both. A 

 comparative examination of a number of 

 the newest types, leads me to believe that 

 there are some whose excellent aesthetic 

 qualities ought to be more fully recog- 

 nized. 



The J. Shrimpton, for instance may be 

 favorably compared with the good old 

 standby Cullingfordii. and I think it 

 ,shows in a measure a superior quality. 

 Its color is clearer, and less heavy; its 

 type is of a strongly reflexed kind, which 

 — at least in the specimens I have seen — is 

 better developed than that of the Culling- 

 fordii. The whitened backs of a few 

 petals which show themselves accentuate 

 the strong aesthetic red with a certain 

 agreeable harmony of color. Beside this 

 rather strong flower I like to see the deli- 

 cate character called Theo, with its pure, 

 cold white, its narrow, straight, thin 

 petals, its gray, shadowy, colorless 

 depths, and its splendid effect against the 

 dark foliage. These two flowers are 

 extremely valuable for an effect in red and 

 white. 



But Columbine is a duo-colored flower, 

 with strongly incurved petals, and an 

 effect of light, creamy-golden yellow, and 

 depths of subdued pinkish orange as 

 luminous as it is oddly indescribable. 

 The flower color is graded from a deep 

 tone at the base to a light tone at the 

 top. Such a pretty double-toned flower 



ought never to be in the company of 

 another of the same nature. It always 

 holds its own beside some chrysanthemum 

 with a single tone of white or dull red. 



Geo. Daniels, a pure white flower with 

 broad, short, sharp petals, and a hemis- 

 pherical form with just the faintest sug- 

 gestion here and there of a pinkish flush, 

 is certainly not a bad neighbor for Colum- 

 bine, or even Maj. McKinley, with its soft 

 coloring of orange-red and gold-red, its 

 transparent tone, and its firm, good, 

 sober green foliage. 



Louis Boehmer still continues with its 

 undiminished value of superb, aesthetic 

 crushed-raspberry pink. Its depths are 

 lustrous, and its white-pink, hairy sur- 

 face is the softest thing imaginable in 

 color. This flower is superb in the com- 

 pany of another white one; but in its 

 proximity I have seen a yellow Lincoln 

 which has succeeded in killing it — as some 

 one has expressively said — in a dozen 

 places at once! No, keep the sober pink 



chrysanthemums away from their golden 

 relatives, or else choose, if you will, to see 

 them color-killed. 



I am always delighted with the extreme 

 type of the flower called Viviand-Morel. 

 I use the term extreme with a good pur- 

 pose, no other chrysanthemum seems 

 quite so emphatic in charactei; its 

 straight, or somewhat curved narrow 

 petals, long and papery, are in strong 

 contrast with those of such characters as 

 Mrs. Robt. Craig (whitel, or Golden 

 Hair (pale flesh-yellow); or Clinton Chal- 

 fant (yellow). These are all compactly 

 built flowers, without a suggestion of the 

 freedom which characterizes Viviand- 

 Morel. 



Here we have the truest liberty of form, 

 combined with a corresponding freedom 

 of color. The pink is delicate or strong, 

 soft, toned, and graduated on the petal, 

 so we cannot commit ourselves by at- 

 tempting to specify one particular kind of 

 pink. Without doubt this flower is an 



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