CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Fig. 131. THE VASE OF "CHADWICK" CHRYSANTHEMUM (grown by Fritz Bahr) 



that won the silver cup offered by the Chicago Greenhouse Manufacturers at the 



first National Flower Show at Chicago, 1908. 



crown bud, usually a cluster of buds will appear in the course of 

 a few weeks, the center one of which is called the terminal bud, and 

 is finally selected to produce the flower. Remove all of the sur- 

 rounding buds unless the center or largest of these cluster buds 

 is deformed in some way, in which case it is well to take it off and 

 select one of the others. 



