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able to elicit from Mr. Thorpe more information regarding his 

 seedlings, and other matters of interest in connection with 

 chrysanthemum history in the United States, of which we are 

 sure he has a wealth of information. 



While the culture of the chrysanthemum has extended to 

 every state and territory, the work of producing new varieties 

 is confined to a very limited area. Perhaps nowhere in 

 America are more chrysanthemums grown than in the vicinity 

 of Philadelphia, where the climate seems to be particularly 

 well suited to their highest development. The amateurs and 

 professional gardeners around the Quaker City have produced 

 many desirable kinds. Thomas Monahan, a private gar- 

 dener produced last season an admirable variety, which he 

 named in honor of President Harrison. Thomas Carey, 

 Henry Surman, Wm. Jamiesoii and James McCleary, all 

 private gardeners, are growers of importance in Philadelphia. 

 W. C. Pyfer, formerly of Lancaster, in the same state, has 

 produced many seedlings of merit, but he is now located in 

 California, where we trust the good work will go on, and be 

 even more successful. 



With the exception of a small portion of Indiana, the chrys- 

 anthemum raising section of America does not extend over an 

 area of two hundred square miles. A belt of country from 

 Boston, Mass., taking in a portion of New York and New 

 Jersey to Philadelphia, would comprise the nursery from 

 which is disseminated all that is new and beautiful in Ameri- 

 can seedlings. The west has but little to add in new varie- 

 ties, excepting some importations of Messrs. Hill & Co., of 

 Richmond, Ind., and a number of seedlings from Messrs. 

 Rieman and Dorner in the same state. What is lacking in 

 the west, however, in the production of new varieties, is amply 

 atoned for by the superior development of the varieties of 

 eastern birth, as is demonstrated at such exhibitions as are 

 held at Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati ; and with 



