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carefully watered in order not to sour the soil. In the 

 preparation of the receptacles for the seed, a little gravel 

 in the bottom will be found good, as the roots work very 

 freely through it, and when the time comes to separate 

 the plants previous to potting, it is an easy matter to 



CHRYSANTHEMUM 



The insect powder knownas"Pyrethnun,"is produced 

 from the dried flowers of C. cineraritefoliuni and C\ 

 coccineum. The former species grows wild in Dalmatia, 

 a long, narrow, mountainous tract of the Austrian em- 

 pire. " Dalmatian Insect Powder " is one of the com- 

 monest insecticides, especially for household pests. U. 

 ciii' r<i ri't f't'/iH iti is l;tri:<!y cultivated in France. C.coc- 

 (■hi.f,„f i^ .lilt. Ill ( 11 1 if., and the product is known as 

 Huliai h. .^11- l.i.il.niaii. 'I'he Spraying of Plants, and 

 Ki|.. I". S. ('..in. A-r. 1SM-2.P. 70. 



There are over one hundred books about the Chrysan- 

 themum, and its magazine literature is probably ex- 

 ceeded in bulk only by that of the rose. It is the flower 

 of the east, as the rose is the flower of the west. Aside 

 from oriental literature, there were 83 books mentioned 

 by C. Harman Payne, in the Catalogue of the National 

 Chrysanthemum "Society for 189G. Most of these are 

 chc-ip cultural guides, circulated by the dealers. The 

 botanv of the two cominim si>i-.ii-s has been monographed 

 by w: B. Il.iiisl.v 11, III. i.ai.l. 11. rs' Chronicle, series 

 III., vol. I',. ].|.. ."i_'l. : - ill. I in the Journal of 



the Royal II. irtiiiiliii! - 1. 12. part I. The great 



repositories ..f iiif..niiai aai i ..a i. lint; the history of the 

 Chrysanthemum, from tlie gar<li-n point of view, are the 

 scattered writings of C. Harman Payne, his Short His- 

 tory of the Chrvsanthemum, London, 1885, and the older 

 books of F. W. Burhidgf and .Tnhn Salter. For iuforma 



tion about varieties, s.. 

 Chrysanthemum s...:.'- 

 scriptive, and suiipl, 

 Ghent, Belgium. Tla 

 is Chrysanthemum t ulii 

 ton, N. v., 1891. There ai 

 art works, among which ( 



! of the National 



■' ! I and the Liste De- 



1 . Iiy O. Meulenaere, 



iitten by an American 



i 1 Aiu.'rica, by James Mor- 



i nunilier of rather expensive 



! of the most delightful is the 



chuyler 



jtangle the roots without bruising them. Probably 

 the plan which works best is to wash the soil and gravel 

 entirely from among the roots. Pot in soil not too dry, 

 and for the next few days keep the house extra warm 

 and humid, and the plants shaded from the sun without 

 any moisture applied to the soil for the first few days 

 JaredG Smith and (j W OinFR 

 CHRYSANTHEMUM (Greek ,ol 1 n fl < f. ) Incl 1 1 

 ing Pyrethrum. Oompdsit e V Urge t,enus of hcrl i 

 ceous and sub-shrubby plai ts mo tly h ir 1 ai 1 t\ pi 

 cally with white or yellow smgle fls but th 

 portant kinds greatly modified in form — ' 

 tham and Hooker make 2' sul "• neri 

 6 include the garden forms) 1 

 ner in which the seeds are r 1 1 

 and the form of the papi i 1 

 cannot be kept distinct fron 1 1 

 themums by garden charactei 

 garden conception of Pjrtthr 

 a group of hardy herbace us 1 1 

 with mostly single flow rs a 

 posed to the florists' or au 

 santhemums, wiii. h i. a i 



called Summ. 1- ' 

 When the gar.l. i i 

 thrams,"heusiia : 

 Many of the sp. - 

 have been call, .i 1 i ■ a 

 rious times, but ilu .. a 

 same specific name uude 1 y 

 Chrysanthemum, except tl e i 

 important of all garden Pjrethrums. 

 viz., P. roseum, which is C. coccin- 

 eum. The Feverfew and Golden 

 Feather are still sold as Pyrethrums. 

 and the only other species of impor- 

 tance is P. uliginosum. 



Golden Flower : Chrysanthemum, edited by 1 

 Mathews, pub. by Prang, Boston, 1890. 



TvPES OF THE Common CHRVSANTHEMtiM. — The com- 

 mon Chrysanthemums of the florists are also called 

 " large-flowering," and "autumn Chrysanthemums," 

 though neither of these popular names is entirely accu- 

 rate or distinctive. They are the blended product of C. 

 Indicum and C. mori folium (or C. Sinense ) , tvio species 

 of plants that grow wild in China and Japan. From 10 

 to 1,5 dominant tjfpes are recognized by the National 

 Chrysanthemum Society of England. 



The words "types," "races," and "sections," have 

 always been used by horticulturists to express much 

 the same thing, but types can always be clearly defined, 

 while sections cannot, and the word race should be 

 rt trictt 



445. Type of single Chrysanthemum 





