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Bench of Single Chrysanthemum Mizpah. No Stakes in Plants. 



a wealth of material to choose from, 

 of almost every imaginable color. Cut- 

 tings of any of these, inserted late in 

 March or April, potted off into 3-inch 

 pots, shifted later to 5-inch and 7-inch 

 or 8-inch and kept pinched until the 

 middle of August, will make very salable 

 stock. Of course, bigger plants may 

 be grown if desired for exhibitions, in 

 which case a start could be made a 

 month earlier. The plants may be grown 

 either out of doors after June until Sep- 

 tember 1, or under glass. The latter 

 system will give the best foliage. Cut- 

 tings put in as late even as August 1 

 and potted along will make nice little 

 plants for window boxes or for finishing 

 off the edges of groups. I , have not 

 tried them planted outdoors and lifted, 

 but think pot culture is to be pre- 

 ferred. 



Grown in boxes or benches, the sin- 

 gles produce splendid sprays for cut- 

 ting. In water these keep better than 

 the double varieties, while for table 

 decorations they are vafUy superior. A 

 great mistake made by some growers is 

 in disbudding the flowers. This "should 

 never be done, as it utterly ruins their 

 character and beauty. 



Some Good Varieties, 



Some of the more desirable sorts to 

 grow are: Ladysmith, light pink; this 

 makes a very bushy plant, which needs 

 but little staking; Nancy Perkins, a 

 good early white, flowers rather small; 

 Annie Holden, yellow; Edith Pagram, 

 light pink, center of flower almost white, 

 one of the best for pot plants and 

 cutting; Pretoria, yellow; Kathleen Bun- 

 yard, pink; Gertrude, white; Stella, 

 white ; Mrs. E. Roberts, soft pink ; Irene 

 Cragg, white; Miss T. C. Warden, sul- 

 phur yellow; Kitty Bourne, yellow; 

 Mrs. Baillie, red; and Mary Richardson, 

 deep orange, shaded with red, a beauti- 

 ful color under artificial light. There 

 are a host of other sorts, but the fore- 

 going comprise some of the best. 



W. N. Ceaig. 



North Olmsted, O. — Irving Dunford 

 is building a house, 25x100, for growing 

 plants, lettuce and some geraniums. 



Toledo, O. — Geo. A. Heinl is now nice- 

 ly located in a neat store at 336 Su- 

 perior street, and doing a good business. 



SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Many of the newer varieties of the 

 single-flowered chrysanthemums are pass- 

 ing into the stage when size becomes a 

 noticeable feature. The coloring in many 

 has of late years been intensified, and 

 the singles are certainly charming flow- 

 ers for decorative work. In build there 

 seems to be a tendency to encourage a 

 light, long floret, instead of a short, stiff, 

 flat one which characterized many of the 

 earlier introductions. One of the most 

 popular varieties is Ladysmith. 



"There are so many now in cultiva- 

 tion," says C. Harman Payne, "that I 

 can only mention a few of the most re- 

 cent or the most attractive of those al- 

 ready known, which I have seen in good 

 form this season. Blushing Beauty is a 

 wonderful bloomer; the flowers are large 

 and colored a delicate rosy blush, with a 

 yellow center. Miss E. Partridge is a 

 neatly-built bloom of almost the same 

 color as Ladysmith; the florets are flat. 



Derrydown has broad, flat florets, and in 

 color is a reddish shade of terra cotta, 

 with a yellow center. "White Duelfess is 

 a free-flowering, pure white variety; the 

 blooms are large and the florets flat and 

 stiff. Progress is a striking variety, of 

 terra cotta color passing to golden yellow 

 at the base of the florets. Florence 

 Adams has long florets folded over; they 

 are white, shaded blush toward the ex- 

 tremities. Mrs. E. Allen has large flow- 

 ers of rosy-amaranth shade and long, 

 stiff florets. J. Fergusson is a sport 

 from Mary Anderson; the flowers are 

 pale pink, with white base and yellow 

 center. Mary Richardson has rich 

 golden flowers, colored a warm shade of 

 terra cotta, with yellow center. Emile has 

 medium-sized flowers of a pale shade of 

 rosy mauve, with yellow cente^; the flo- 

 rets are narrow. Bessie Payne has a 

 high center and flat florets of a pretty 

 shade of pinkish mauve. The variety is 

 free, and the flowers are effective. 

 Among others noted in good form are 

 Edith Pagram, Emily Clibran, Merstham 

 White, Acme, Ideal, Golden Fleece, Pink 

 Beauty, Miss Mary Anderson and Miss 

 Annie Holden. ' ' 



THE POPULARITY OF MUMS. 



William Duckham, of Madison, N. J., 

 maintains that the great popularity of 

 the chrysanthemum is due to the huge 

 exhibition varieties. In support of that 

 opinion Mr. Duckham spoke as follows, 

 in the introductory part of his address 

 before the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America, at New York, November 6: 



"The chrysanthemum continues its 

 prosperous and undisturbed march down 

 the wide avenue of popularity. We are 

 a year older; the chrysanthemum also 

 has added, another year to its career, but 

 it is not a year older; it is more youth- 

 ful and full of vitality and capable of 

 new and fresher development than it was 

 a year ago. We are distinctly older, 

 and may have some parsing twinges in 

 the bones to remind us of that very dis- 

 turbing fact. The chrysanthemum is 

 fresher and more beautiful and more 

 varied and even a little larger than ever. 



' ' Wherever flowers are grown the 



Bench of Some of the Newer Single Qirysanthemums. 



