CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND DAISIES 



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them back when several leaves tall, and place twelve inches apart. 

 A rich, sandy loam suits them best and they surely love the sun. 



They bloom profusely throughout the Summer and early Fall. 

 The species known as Golden Feather (Chrysanthemum prsealtum var. 

 aureum) should be sown indoors in March and though really a perennial, 

 it is treated as a annual 

 It is used as a yellow- 

 leaved border plant. 



An excellent charac- 

 teristic of some perennial 

 Chrysanthemums is that 

 theyreproduce themselves 

 so nicely by the produc- 

 tion of suckers or under- 

 ground stems. One of the 

 species which multiphes 

 itself in this manner is 

 the Feverfew (Chrysan- 

 themum Parthenium). 

 It is a very old plant, 

 but it certainly bears an 

 interesting little tufted 

 white and yellow flower 

 in clusters which, com- 

 ing in June, is well worthy 

 of a place in the garden. 

 It self -sows its seed, but 

 rarely becomes a nui- 

 sance. 



A Cluster of Hardy Chrysanthemums 



Propagated by cuttings or by division of the 



root, and^also of great interest to grow from 



seed 



Two white Daisy- like species are well worth cultivating. The 

 first is the Shasta Daisy (Chrysanthemum maximum), a gigantic 

 white field Daisy of \ery vigorous growth and producing flowers 

 from June throughout the Summer, They have very good keeping 

 quahties and are effective in the border or as a cut flower. Another 

 species, a shrubby Daisy (Chrysanthemum nipponicum), blooms in 

 the Fall and produces its flowers on the stems from the old shoots of 

 the previous year. 



The class known as the Hardy Chrysanthemums and which 

 resemble the indoor varieties, are of two types, the button-hke varieties 

 or pompons, and the Aster- hke or large-flowering varieties. Most of 

 the varieties are hardy if protected in the Winter by dry leaves. They 

 enjoy constant cultivation and a rich soil which has been deeply pre- 



