8 Chrysanthemum Culture for America. 



Siberia are the habitat of C. absinthifolium, and Kamtchatka that 

 of C. carinatum. In northern Africa are found C. paludosum, 

 C. carinatum and C. pumilum ; in Asiatic Turkey, C. tanaceti- 

 jolium and C. lancifolium ; in Hungary, C. rotundifolium and C. 

 sylvestre ; in Austria, C. atratum ; in Spain, C. anomalum and 

 C. radicals, and in France, C. montanum and C. perpusillum. 

 Great Britain has C. Leucanthemum, the ox-eye daisy, and C. 

 segetum, the corn marigold, which are also found in America, 

 all belonging to the same family. Notwithstanding the long 

 list given, it will be observed that it is not by any means com- 

 plete, inasmuch as Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the 

 Levant, Mexico, India, China and Japan contribute additional 

 species of this important and widespread genus. But of all 

 these species, those of India, China, and Japan are perhaps 

 the most usually denoted by the comprehensive word chrys- 

 anthemum among the majority of people who are engaged 

 in the cultivation of this beautiful and deservedly popular 

 autumn, flower, the named varieties of which alone already 

 number between two and three thousand, and are constantly 

 increasing. 



There are good reasons for supposing that it was cultivated 

 with much devotion by the gardeners of China and Japan for 

 centuries before its importation into Europe. A well-known 

 traveler in those countries tells us in one of his works that 

 "so great a favorite is the chrysanthemum with the Chinese 

 gardeners that no persuasion will deter them from its culture, 

 and they will frequently resign their situations rather than be 

 forbidden by their employers to grow it." In support of this 

 statement, he relates the experience of an English resident in 

 that country, who, without the slightest interest in the plant, 

 was compelled to allow his native gardener the pleasure of 

 cultivating it solely on that account. The Chinese often train 

 the chrysanthemum into curious and fantastic forms, such as 

 pagodas, horses, stags, ships, etc. Another peculiar method 



