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make a closely incurving flower that has 

 been exhibited as a bronze in several 

 places. 



In the any other color, W. R. Church 

 is the best. The only trouble with it is 

 that the color is hard to classify. Set up 

 as a crimson it has several times been 

 turned down by the judges because the 

 reverse, which generally shows, is a 

 steely bronze, while set up as a Dronze it 

 would be killed on color by Harrison 

 Dick or Donald McLeod. In a class for 

 six vases thirty-six flowers Church is 

 most valuable, the unique color making 

 it very distinct. 



Bessie Godfrey has a long neck that 

 does not improve its appearance but the 

 color is useful, and growth good. Mary 

 Inglis has shown an eye with some grow- 

 ers but it is the old story of terminal 

 buds instead of crowms. The man who 

 tells you that there has been no progress 

 in mums of late years is the same man 

 who has not improved his methods and 

 system of culture during that time. All 

 buds look alike to him, and "where ig- 

 norance is bliss ' ' perhaps it 's folly to be 

 wise. The any other color has some no- 

 table accessions this year in Mrs. J. A. 

 Miller, J. H. Doyle, Sensation and sev- 

 eral good French varieties. 



Speaking financially, the exhibitions 

 all over the country were a success and 

 in point of attendance, except in isolated 



it on the men who have kept everlasting- 

 ly at it trying to make a flower show a 

 success on its merits alone. It does seem 

 that at last the great American public is 

 beginning to appreciate the fact that a 

 flower show is worth a good deal to a 

 community that makes any pretentions 

 to culture and refinement. 



Next week we will review the commer- 

 cial side of the mum as far as our own 

 experience goes in that direction. 



Brian Boru. 



LATE VARIETIES. 



I would like to ask for a list of chrys- 

 anthemums that are best for Thanksgiv- 

 ing. Also what varieties, if any, are 

 good for Christmas. A. S. 



Late-flowered chrysanthemums are 

 more a result of special treatment than 

 of being naturally late flowering-kinds. 

 Varieties that will come in naturally 

 somewhat late are Chadwick, Superba, 

 Merry Christmas, Mrs. Jerome Jones, 

 Bonnaffon and Golden Wedding. While 

 some of these kinds can be held until 

 Christmas I always think they look poor 

 enough by Thanksgiving. The old W. 

 H. Lincoln, if it is still in cultivation, 

 is a very good late yellow and I have 

 seen it in fair shape at Christmas. 



To get late flowers cuttings should be 



Chrysanthemum Merstham Red. 



cases, the year was a record breaker. 

 Surely there is great encouragement in 

 this, and, though it has taken years of 

 hard work and effort to accomplish this 

 end, it reflects the highest possible cred- 



rooted late, June or July being early 

 enough, and then encourage the plante 

 to grow as long as possible before setting 

 their buds. Keep the flowers as cool 

 as possible without actual frost and af- 



ter developing they will keep in, good 

 condition on the plants for several 

 weeks. Brian Boru. 



LEAF-SPOT. 



I am sending you specimens of the 

 foliage of some pot-grown chrysanthe- 

 mums and would like to know what the 

 trouble with it is. C. J. 



The disease is a leaf -spot; septoria, 

 I believe, is the scientiflc term for it. 

 There are several forms of it, but they 

 all arise from some well defined 

 cause, the most common being an excess 

 of moisture with not enough air through 

 the plants. Chrysanthemums in the fall 

 are ' hardly ever entirely free from leaf 

 disease, owing to the *dense growth they 

 make, which prevents the sun and air 

 from penetrating the soil and drying it 

 out, but if spraying with Bordeaux mix- 

 ture or potassium sulphide, copperdine 

 or any other of the f ungrus-destroyers, 

 is faithfully performed in the early 

 stages of growth, the leaf diseases will 

 not do much damage to the crop. 



Brian Boru. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOafiTY. 



Work of Committees. 



Mile. Jeannie Nonin, exhibited by The 

 K G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., Novem- 

 ber 19, at Boston, color white, Japanese, 

 scored 96 commercial scale: 96 exhibi- 

 tion scale. 



Dorothy Faust, exhibited by Wm. P. 

 Craig, Philadelphia, December 3, before 

 the Philadelphia committee, color white, 

 Japanese incurved, scored 87 commercial 

 scale, Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



LEAF-SPOT OUTDOORS. 



In our chrysanthemum bed of earlies 

 outdoors leaf -spot appeared slightly last 

 year and in a worse form this fall. Be- 

 cause of the extended rainfaU last spring 

 the mums were not so strong and heal- 

 thy as in other years. Late in Septem- 

 ber we put up our duck cover sind nailed 

 it tight overhead. In a week we drew 

 the nails and rolled it back for leaf- 

 spot was creating havoc beneath it. Is 

 there any way of treating the soil of 

 this bed to prevent leaf -spot next yeart 

 It is necessary to use this place for 

 mums, especially from August on. 



A. C. Z. 



We would first of all get rid of all 

 stock that showed any signs of the leaf 

 rot during the past, season, cleaning 

 away every bit of decayed foUage. The 

 soil should be loosened up and exposed 

 to the winter, and if possible some en- 

 tirely different crop should be raised 

 there during the early summer. Assum- 

 ing that this can be done, we would sug- 

 gest potatoes or some crop that would 

 leave the ground in perfectly clean con- 

 dition. If this is not feasible, the 

 ground should be worked over thoroughly 

 several times, so that there is nothing 

 left for the disease^to cxist-tmr 



Then let new, clean, healthy stock 

 be secured in the spring and grown in 

 another location until the first of Aug- 

 ust, when they can easily be transplanted 

 to where they are to bloom. This can 

 be done very successfully on a cloudy 

 day, or late in the afternoon, providing 

 that they are well watered. We would 

 then give frequent sprayings of weak 



