SUMMER OR EARLY FLOWERING 

 CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



THESE, the most popular of all the sections, may be 

 grown by anyone possessing a garden, whether cottager 

 or villa resident. The culture is simple and the re- 

 compense is so exceedingly great ; a wealth of glorious 

 colour, from summer to late autumn, helping to prolong 

 the beauty of our plots and borders, when most other 

 flowers are fading or past their best. 



Again, they are a most useful adjunct to our public 

 parks and gardens, where they may be seen massed and 

 arranged in harmonious manner, giving a touch of bright- 

 ness, and extending the bedding system to a much later 

 date than is usual with any other plants. With what ease 

 they may be grown is shown by the quantities that are 

 met with in our large towns. Flower girls may be 

 seen during the season with huge baskets of these flowers, 

 disposing of liberal quantities for modest sums of money. 

 I know of no flower that will outlast the early flowering 

 Chrysanthemum in a cut state, providing the water is 

 frequently changed, and the room is kept in a temperate 

 condition. I have known them last a month with this 

 treatment. Unfortunately, some of the Japanese and 

 Incurves produced later will not conform to this test. 

 Varieties seem to differ a great deal among the later 

 flowering ones as to the way they take up water, even 

 though the ends of the stems are split for the purpose. 



The florist finds in the early flowering forms most 

 useful material for the making up of wreaths, crosses, 

 sprays, etc., chiefly from the white, whilst the yellows, 

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