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stained waxy white, supported by the 

 darkest possible, leather, green foliage, 

 is a character which ought to stand by 

 itself. 1 would let Mrs. Jerome Jones 

 severely alone, I mean that she should 

 reign alone. She is politically supreme, 

 and with any other company than her 

 own, she is destructive to the extent of 

 anarchy! What, for instance, would one 

 think of a combination of Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones with the old-fashioned, dainty 

 flower called Laciniatum! 



There is, at least, this to be considered 

 in the use of chrysanthemums for decora- 

 tive pusposes; each flower has atypeofits 

 own, and either the types war with each 

 other, or else they dwell in the realms of 

 everlasting peace. It is not at all difficult 

 to find the harmonious members of the 

 chrysanthemum brotherhood, and vice 

 versa, the theatrical Mrs. Jones and the 

 puritanical Laciniatum in combination 

 need no comments of mine to foreshadow 

 another state of things. 



But I will call attention now to an 

 extremely odd-colored member of the 

 brotherhood. Mrs. Geo. West, here we 

 have a dull purplish, grayish flower, 

 exceedingly variable in tone, but also 

 quite refreshingly so. I would choose 

 such a flower in the decoration of a white 

 room. There is something strong of 

 accent about it, and unless I preferred a 

 white and yellow effect, I can imagine 

 nothing more pleasing than the dark, 

 somber and tonic effect of this flower 

 amid weak-colored surroundings. Its 

 color is aesthetic, and its form is thor- 

 oughly good; in combination with some 

 large cream-white flower it finds its truest 

 value. I hardly know what to say of its 

 darker sister called Octoroon. This 

 flower has a whitish-chocolate tone under 

 electric light which is quite charming. 

 Certainly this character is a strong one, 

 and perhaps under the same conditions 

 as those I have just described it must be 

 beautiful. I would avoid, however, any 

 accompaniment for it other than white. 



Other flowers whose aesthetic coloring 

 is greatly to be admired are, Eugene Dail- 

 ledouze, with its extremely golden, liquid 

 depths, its well-curved petals, and its fine 

 blackish, leathery foliage; Mrs. Perrin, 

 whose crimson pink is soft and luscious, 

 and Minerva, whose light, pure, pale- 

 gold yellow is unequalled by any other 

 chrysanthemum. Its incurved, lightly 

 twisted petal is well formed, and its foli- 

 age is effectively dark. This last flower 

 is as pure in tone as the two former ones 

 are soft; and in each case the juxtaposi- 

 tion of any flower of strong and uncom- 

 promising color is absolutely destructive 

 of all artistic effect. Let each of these 

 flowers speak for itself. 



Julinda is a pretty flower of flat-topped 

 figure, and slightly incurved petals with 

 pointed tips whose light pinkish tone is 

 sharply relieved against the ball of deep 

 aesthetic dull pink beneath. This is a 

 good pink flower for the company of 

 some other one whose pink is quite dark, 

 or for such a character as Mutual Friend, 

 a white flower of excellent substance, 

 often creamy or pink-flushed in its depths. 



Whatever choice the florist may make 

 of these chrysanthemums for decoration, 

 he cannot err if he chooses white for an 

 accompaniment in every case where color 

 is puzzling, or non-commital. A bother- 

 some chrysanthemum color is at once 

 righted in the company of white; the 

 same applies to a room-color of question- 

 able nature. Try white and then add 

 such other flower colors as may seem to 

 fit in without causing a sensation! 



F. Schuyler Mathews. 



Boston, November 14, '96. 



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