30 Chrysanthemum Culture for America. 



believe, been steadily gaining in favor to the present time. 

 It is not generally known that the first independent work on 

 the chrysanthemum was written by a German, who had a col- 

 lection of the new flowers, in which were comprised most, if 

 not all, those in cultivation in England and France, all of 

 which are carefully described. 



Up to the year 1854 no universal standard of merit in the 

 blooms was adopted, every one having his own peculiar ideas 

 of a good flower. A standard at that time adopted by the 

 Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum Society, which was the 

 same as that suggested by Mr. Glenny. 



