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and Boissieri, the best of the late flowering 

 sorts, shows bright, deep colour. 



C. NANA (Dwarf Snow Glory). A dwarf 

 kind from Crete rarely more than 4 inches 

 high. Its flowers are small but attractive, 

 and carried in dense spikes of white or 

 pale bluish lilac. 



C. SARDENSIS (Sardis Snow Glory). A 

 beautiful plant with flowers of rich deep 

 blue, free from the pale shading of other 

 kinds, the white eye being sharply defined. 

 It flowers during February and March 

 according to aspect, the effect of its 

 flowers being very good. Several varie- 

 ties are grown, but the typical kind sur- 

 passes them all in beauty. Mountains of 

 Asia Minor. 



C. TMOLUSI (late Snow Glory). A 

 dwarf variety of strong growth and latest 

 of any in bloom. Its large flowers are of 

 rich blue, with a large white eye faintly 

 outlined in purplish-blue, and with a 

 touch of deeper colour on the tips of the 

 petals. 



CHOISYA TERNATA (Mexican 



Orange-flower}. A handsome shrub ; 

 in the south and west often thrives 

 with the shelter of a wall and a southern 

 or western aspect, and in high ground, 

 at least, as a bush. It is fast-growing, 

 the flowers a lovely contrast to the 

 deep rich green foliage, best in free, 

 warm soils ; in the north and Midlands 

 against walls. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. Perennial 

 and annual plants, some of which are 

 of great value for the garden. 



C. ARCTICUM. A good plant for the 

 rock garden, about a foot high, flowering 

 all the summer ; white, tinged with lilac 

 or rose. 



C. CARINATUM (Tricolor Chrysanthe- 

 mum). A showy annual from N. Africa, 

 which varies much in cultivation, and is 

 valuable if only for its yield of flowers for 

 cutting. There are double white and 

 yellow forms, and the showy ones known 

 as C. Burridgeanum. Dunnett's varieties 

 of the same plant are also good. They 

 are propagated from seeds sown in April 

 in open beds or borders where the plants 

 are to flower. 



C. CORONARIUM (Crown Daisy). A 

 handsome annual 2 to 3 feet high in its 

 wild form in S. Europe and N. Africa, and 

 in cultivation breaking into a number of 

 forms, few of them so pretty as the single 

 wild flower, pale yellow or buff, treated as 

 a half-hardy annual, and sown in good 

 ground in April. 



C. FRUTESCENS (Paris Daisy, Mar- 

 guerite). A half-hardy bushy plant from 

 the Canary Isles ; the foliage glaucous ; 

 the flowers large, pure white, with a yellow 

 centre, and appearing from June until cut 

 down by frost. Several forms or allies 



are also valuable, such as the yellow 

 Etoile d'Or and Comtesse de Chambord. 

 These are of easy culture and propagation, 

 for the outdoor garden, treated as half- 

 hardy plants and put out in May. 



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Paris Daisy (C /, tttescens). 



C. INDICUM. The parent of the numer- 

 ous varieties of the hybrid Chrysanthe- 

 mum. Although in our country, gener- 

 ally, open-air culture will often be imprac- 

 ticable, the outdoor kinds are so pretty 

 that it is worth while trying to secure the 

 best kinds where the climate allows of 

 their growth out of doors. 



In many well-kept gardens there are 

 open spaces on the walls, and the 

 question is often asked : What can be 

 done to hide them ? The answer is : 

 Train Chrysanthemums upon them ; 

 if well nailed in they take up but little 

 room, and afford a pleasing background 

 to the other occupants of the borders. 

 Strong cuttings or suckers, or, what is 

 better still, the old roots or stools that 

 flowered in pots the previous season, 

 planted at the foot of the wall 3 feet 

 apart early in March, in soil similar 

 to that just recommended, will make 

 remarkably rapid growth, and, if kept 

 neatly nailed in and all the side-shoots 

 removed as they appear, will soon cover 

 a wall of ordinary height. Should it be 

 desirable to protect the blossoms from 

 wind and weather, a canvas covering 

 fastened in front when the nights are 

 cold will generally prove sufficient pro- 

 tection. Those named below are suit- 

 able varieties. Doubles : Bronze 

 Crawfordia ; Bronze Soleil d'Octobre ; 

 Crawfordia, golden ; crimson Source 

 d'Or; Kathleen Thompson, crimson- 



