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these latter do not exceed 4 feet in height when grown as 

 strongly as possible during the whole season, say, from 

 December to November, or when rooted late on purpose 

 for grouping they do not even exceed 2 feet 6 inches, pot 

 included. These facts will remind us that as growers of 

 Exhibition Japanese Chrysanthemums we have not the 

 same difficulties to meet as our predecessors encountered 

 twenty-five years ago. 



There are many who seem to think that the Japanese 

 varieties are losing some of the appreciation they have 

 enjoyed, and that the single-flowered varieties will suc- 

 ceed them to some extent. I do not share this feeling, 

 although there is no disposition to depreciate the great 

 progress that is being made with the single varieties. 

 Many of these latter are very bright and beautiful, and as 

 decorative flowers are nearly all that can be desired, but 

 they have not the keeping qualities of a really good 

 decorative Japanese, nor can they be packed and sent by 

 rail so well. What is more important from the market- 

 grower's point of view, they do not sell so easily, a few boxes 

 each morning being all that most growers can get rid of 

 to advantage, and these must be blooms of the first quality 

 obtained by rigid disbudding. The Reflexed, Anemone, 

 and Pompon flowers have nearly all disappeared from 

 general cultivation, and, with the exception of a very few 

 of the more delicately coloured Pompons and Anemone 

 Pompons which possess uncommon decorative qualities, 

 there is no need to mourn them, for their places are amply 

 filled by the single flowers and by the many fine varieties 

 of the Japanese type. 



The Incurveds, so popular twenty years ago, have 

 certainly depreciated in the public estimation, particularly 



