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taste and enlarging the demand forthem. Any one that 
has ever seen a real Chrysanthemum show will need no 
further invitation than merely the announcement of 
time and place, and to those who have never seen a 
Chrysanthemum show we say, by all means avail your- 
self of the first opportunity to see one and you will never 
regret it. Do not think because your grandmother had 
a few varieties in her garden many years ago, that you 
know all about them, and you can imagine what it would 
be like. If you do you will never be more mistaken ; the 
varieties of ten years ago are no more a comparison with 
the fantastic Japanese types of to-day than a Magnolia 
bloom is to the Daisy—Burns’ ‘‘we crimson tipped 
flower.’’ When going to a display, above all do not for- 
get the children; children have a natural love for plants 
and flowers, and nothing can give them more lasting 
pleasure and happiness than to cultivate this love of 
theirs, until they and the flowers are fast friends and 
inseparable companions. 
When nuts are dropping from the trees and corn is gathered in, 
When purple grapes are on the vine and apples in the bin, 
When far across the level fields is borne the crow’s harsh call, 
Then in the garden lifts its head the bravest flower of all. 
Oh! bright and strong and undismayed, the bravest flower of all, 
Far on Winter’s icy edge it sets its banner bold, 
With fragrance keen as myrrh and spice, with colors clean and 
cold. 
Its petals may be tipped with pink, or touched with palest hue 
Of yellow gold, or snowy white—their beauty smiles at you; 
And little recks it, though the frost may chill the nipping air, 
It came to see the curtain drop, this fiower so debonair. 
—MARGARET E, SANGSTER. 
GLASSIFICATION OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Having no more agreeable class of plants to experiment 
with, the hybridisers have worked much improvement 
