The Florists' Review 



June 1, 1916. 



13 



Gladys Buckham Phyllis Bryant R. B. Surge 



Some of the Newer of the So<aIIed Single Chrjrsanthemums that have Jumped into Popular Favor the Last Few Seasons* 



santliemums because they usually flower 

 too late for one to derive much satis- 

 faction from them. 



The points on which the pompons suf- 

 fer in comparison with the early-flow- 

 ering varieties axe that the pompons 

 do not bloom until several weeks later 

 than the early-flowering varieties and 

 are not nearly so large when they do 

 come. There is, of course, a place for 

 both classes, since one type does not 

 bloom until after the others have gone 

 and the pompons have one advantage 

 in their cast-iron hardiness. I have 

 seen pompon blooms come through 10 

 degrees of frost, when the same tem- 

 perature blackened the open flowers of 

 the early-flowering type, though it did 

 not injure the buds. 



Single Chrjrsantliemums. 



It has been thought until recently 

 that the single mums would not develop 

 outdoors. This is a great mistake, as 

 some of you have perhaps discovered 

 by this time. A customer of mine, 

 Francis H. Bergen, of Summit, N. J., is 

 perhaps the most successful man I know 

 of in growing single mums outdoors. 

 He has a border on either side of his 

 front drive, leading to the front door 

 of his home; these borders from the 

 middle of October until late in Novem- 

 ber are things of beauty, and the most 

 striking types in the collection are the 

 single mums. 



A list of a dozen of the best single 

 varieties would be about as follows: 



White — Elsa, Gladys Duckham, Men- 

 sa and R. B. Burge. Pink — ^Ivor Grant, 

 Mrs. Southbridge, Mrs. Buckingham 

 and Miss Mary Pope. Yellow — Joseph- 

 ine, Golden Mensa and Marion Suther- 

 land. Crimson and bronze — Sylvia 

 Slade, Ceddie Mason, Brightness and 

 Margaret Walker, 



In the single types, agaih, we have 

 many beautiful varieties, but they need 

 a greenhouse for their proper develop- 

 ment; therefore I have omitted them. 



Planting and Transplanting. 



Granted, then, that one has the best 

 varieties in their different types, in 

 each section, what is the way to handle 

 them in order to get the best results? 

 Get them from your dealer in the spring 

 as soon as the weather is warm enough 



and the soil is in good condition' out- 

 doors. Set out the plants in rows eight- 

 een inches apart, with twelve inches 

 between the plants in the rows. They 

 should be kept pinched back during the 

 months of May and June, in order to 

 keep the stock dwarf and robust and 

 prevent the plants from growing too 

 high, necessitating considerable staking. 

 One mistake that beginners often 

 make is in assuming that the hardy 

 types do not require any attention in 

 the way of transplanting, from year to 

 year. If one is to grow these varieties 

 to the highest point of perfection, the 

 clumps ought to be taken up in the 

 spring and broken into individual 

 plants. These individual plants, when 

 planted in new soil, will invariably pro- 

 duce flowers of much finer quality than 

 the old clumps that have been left un- 

 disturbed. In this respect the mums do 



not differ from many other perennial 

 plants of a like character, which are 

 benefited by this annual or biennial 

 moving and rejuvenation. 



Summer Treatment. 



Because you are not going to get flow- 

 ers until fall, do not neglect the plants 

 all summer and expect to have them ro- 

 bust when yon want them. If the sum- 

 mer is hot and dry, watering should be 

 resorted to once a week and the plants 

 should be sprayed in the cool of the 

 evening. In extremely hot weather this 

 will work wonders in keeping down the 

 black and green aphis, which are the 

 worst enemies of the chrysanthemum. 



Begarding feeding, most of you, I 

 presume, are familiar with the fact that 

 the tremendous flowers one sees on ex- 

 hibition, from greenhouses, have been 

 fed with artificial fertilizer to bring 



Chrysanthemum Milka>' of'the[EarIy-flowcring Type. 



