CHAPTER X. 



Select Lists of Varieties for Various Purposes. 



THE wonderful progress made within the past few years 

 in the culture of the chrysanthemum renders it diffi- 

 cult to give a list of varieties suitable for each partic- 

 ular style of culture that would be acceptable to all 

 growers. Nearly every grower has his favorites for each spec- 

 ial system of cultivation. Within the past few years new 

 kinds are annually introduced that eclipse many of the favor- 

 ites of each preceding year. To an American grower of the 

 present day it is a little amusing to look over a few of the 

 works by English and other writers and see the varieties there 

 enumerated as the finest in their respective classes. With 

 some exceptions there is not one of them that would pass 

 muster among the great army of home-raised seedlings that 

 annually come into our plant commerce. Many of those va- 

 rieties that occupied a prominent position in their respective 

 classes, but a few years since, are now relegated to obscurity, 

 and varieties of more recent introduction occupy well nigh all 

 the honored positions. In view of this it is with hesitation we 

 give a list of the best varieties at the present time, lest future 

 chroniclers might deride us for our choice of to-day. How- 

 ever, if the next decade will produce varieties as superior to 

 these of the present time, as the varieties of recent introduc- 

 tion are to those grown ten years ago, we will be so thoroughly 



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