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which has an excellent stem and foliage and very large 

 flowers, and Queen, a splendid sort with perfect foliage 

 and handsome flowers that keep remarkably well. Ivory, 

 early, Minnie Wannamaker, medium, and Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones, late, of the older kinds, are still valuable. Of the 

 pink kinds, Mrs. Perrin (Fig. 20) is a promising new 

 variety, while Iora (Fig. 21) has made an excellent im- 

 pression as an exhibition variety. Viviand Morel holds 

 a high place as an early variety, and Harry Balsley, 

 although not good in plant, has a good color. V. H. Hal- 

 lock, Eda Prass and Mrs. Bayard Cutting are also good. 



Among other sorts worthy of a place in a collection 

 are Clinton Chalfant, Jos. H. White, Pres. W. R. Smith, 

 Inter-Ocean, Georgienne Bramhall, Eldorado and Mutual 

 Friend. Cullingfordii still deserves a place as a dark 

 red, as does Hicks Arnold as a bronze. John Shrimp- 

 ton has been well received as a maroon variety. The 

 flower is of good size, color and form, and the stem is 

 stiff and well clothed. The principal call is for white, 

 pink and yellow flowers and of course the largest num- 

 ber of plants should be of those colors. 



Some five or six years ago, Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, a 

 white variety with its ray flowers studded with short 

 hairy growths, and a year later Louis Boehmer, which 

 differed in being of a dirty pink color, were introduced, 

 but have found little favor, except as oddities, with flo- 

 rists. In addition to the above, the class is now repre- 

 sented by Miss Annie Manda, white, Wm. Falconer, 

 pink, and W. A. Manda and Patrick Barry, yellow, 

 which are improvements over the original varieties. 

 Golden Hair and R. M. Gray are still later and better 

 varieties. 



INSECTS AND DISEASES. 



In addition to the green aphis, chrysanthemums are 

 frequently infested with a black form. These can be 



