162 MY GROWING GARDEN 



the second Sunday of the month I noted thirty- 

 four distinct flower species in good bloom, and 

 seemingly intending to keep on awhile. 



The chrysanthemums are an October feature. I 

 have tried to get large-flowering hardy 'mums, and 

 I succeed in growing them easily enough, only they 

 are not hardy, and are gone by spring. This 

 October there are blooming some very lovely 

 flowers among the chrysanthemums, and my hope 

 for over-winter living is strong. Certain seedlings 

 with surprisingly good flowers are coming into 

 bloom. An exquisite light pink, Normandie, 

 has lasted three weeks in beauty; Lillian Doty, 

 a deeper pink, is also lasting; and there are yellows, 

 reds, and a persistent and lovely informal white 

 Queen of the Whites that I really want to 

 carry over and have more of. But if they fail? 

 Well, I've certainly had my money's worth now, 

 and I can plant again without feeling cheated. 



Part of my desire to have this class of chrysan- 

 themums "live over" comes, I think, from two 

 memories. One is of the old home of my boyhood, 

 about which grew quantities of white, pink, red, 

 yellow and brown "frost flowers," as we called 

 them, that just came each fall, and were never 

 renewed. Then I remember seeing, not once, but 

 often, masses of much larger 'mums in country 



