192 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



1st of August, though the late kinds may be pinched back 

 a month latter. When extra large flowers are desired, 

 all buds, but one, as soon as they can be seen, should be 

 removed from each shoot, this will produce flowers such 

 as are seen at Exhibitions, the large kinds often measur- 

 ing six, seven and eight inches in diameter. There has been 

 quite a run on these large flowers in New York lately, 

 single flowers of Mrs. Wheeler, Count of Germany, and 

 Cullingfordi, selling for fifty cents each ; ordinary flowers 

 average, perhaps, $2 per hundred. 



As it is of the utmost importance in growing chrys- 

 anthemums to be used as cut flowers, to choose the 

 earliest and the latest kinds, I append a list of each 

 class, which has been most carefully chosen, and is the 

 very best that can be selected at this date. 



EARLY FLOWERING CHRYSANTHEMUMS : Bouquet Na- 

 tionale, fine large double flowers, pure white, with 

 lemon centre ; Bouquet Fait, delicate rosy lilac, shaded 

 silvery white ; Elaine, beautiful waxy white, perfect 

 form, extra fine ; Early Red Dragon, dark yellow, 

 streaked bronze and crimson ; Gloriosum, bright sulphur 

 yellow, very free flowering ; Geo. Glenny, a fine old 

 early yellow, incurved ; J. Collins, salmon maroon, 

 shaded bronze ; Mrs. Brett, round, sulphur yellow ; M. 

 Lemoine, dark yellow, streaked bronze and crimson ; 

 Md. Grame, pure white, fine incurved flower ; Mrs. S. 

 Lyon, large single white, golden centre ; Sonce d'Or, 

 intense yellow, shaded ''old gold." 



LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, "CHRISTMAS" COLLECTION. 

 Comprising such kinds as perfect their flowers in the 

 house about the holiday season : Bend d'Or, pure golden 

 yellow, as the flowers mature, the petals lap over, forming 

 ribbon-like belts; Cullingfordi, scarlet and crimson; Count 

 of Germany, vermillion and gold ; Christmas Eve, pure 

 white ; Fantasie, pink, shading to white ; Fair Maid of 

 Guernsey, clear dazzling white, immense ball-like flowers j 



