22 Chrysanthemums. 
long, flat petals of rich orange yellow, marbied with brown, red 
and crimson; golden disc; flowers of immense size. 
Amber Gem. Beautiful amber. Flowers grow in form of a 
ball, last many weeks. 
PINK CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Pyrethrum Roseum. Resembling Pyrethrum roseum in habit 
and color. High, soft center, deep pinkish carmine petals; tall 
grower; masses of flowers on long stems; very early. 
Ada Spalding. Lower half of flower a rich, deep pink, 
shading in upper portion to the purest pearl-white. Petals very 
large, broad and solid. 
Mrs. Charles Dissel. In color, mostly asoft shade of lavender 
pink, sometimes creamy white with pink center, and occasionally 
all three shades. 
Colossal. Probably the largest of all Chrysanthemums, form 
somewhat flat, with tips of petals incurved; the color is of pearl- 
pink, changing to bluish. A charming variety. 
Lilian B. Bird. Of the very largest size, long, tubular petals 
of perfect form, flowers twelve inches in diameter; color an ex- 
quisite shade of ‘‘shrimp pink,’’ flower when fully open an im- 
mense half-globe. 
RED CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Walter W. Coles. A very bright, reddish, terra-cotta, reverse 
pale yellow, outer petals broad, long, pointed and horizontal. A 
very large flower and exquisitely beautiful. 
Leopard. Ground color a deep shade of carmine, irregularly 
splashed and spotted with pure white, flower quite large, petals 
partly tubular; a very distinct and novel variety; quite late. 
G. F. Moseman. -One of the finest of all yet known; nine 
inches in diameter, irregular, incurved petals, buff without and 
bright terra-cotta within, large, robust and free-growing. 
AND THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE, 
One of. the characteristics of Southern California springtime, 
as developed in the last few years, is the holding of citrus fairs. 
The Southern California State Citrus Fair for 1892 opened its 
doors to the public in Los Angeles on the 2nd of March, and the 
lavish wealth of color there displayed was certainly sufficient to 
dazzle the eyes of the eastern ‘tenderfeet’ who thronged Hazard’s 
Pavilion throughout the ‘fair’ week (as usual, interspersed with 
showers) with illy concealed surprise and delight. 
The late Richard Henry Dana, in his now famous ‘Two Years 
