290 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
These exhibitions and the preparation of the plants for them, months in 
advance, are among the early recollections of the writer's boyhood. Up 
till 1862, all the varieties grown here had regular blossoms, but in that 
year Robert Fortune introduced the first of the ragged-flowered J apanese 
thousands, and the power of the species in this respect does not appear 
to have at all reached its limit. These varieties have now been arranged 
in distinet classes, whose characteristics are indicated by the names they 
bear (see Garden Varieties and Hybrids). 
CHRYSANTHEMUM ARGENTEUM (silvery). Stems un- 
eteenegmeg 8) 1 foot high. Leaves greyish, twice-pinnate, the 
leaflets entire. Flower-head solitar , White; July. Perennial. Introduced 
from Armenia (1731). 
C. caRinatum (keeled). Tricolor 
f involucre keeled - disk-florets brown ; ray-florets 
Se; August. Annual. The var. Burridgeanum 
r than the type) has the ray-florets of varied tints 
C. cononarrum (garland). Garland Daisy. Stems branched, 8 to 4 
-pinnate manner. Flower-heads 
inches across ; July to September. Annual. There 
e” variety with the florets all strap-shaped, closely 
numerous, yellow, 2 
is a so-called « doubl 
overlapping. 
C. FRUTESCENS (shrubby). Paris Daisy ; Marguerite. Stem me 
ranched and forming a bush, 2 to 6 feet high, and of be bse 
» Somewhat fleshy, deeply cut in a pe 
nches across; disk yellow, rays white; 
January to December. Perennial, but not quite hardy. Should be grows 
i d out only in Summer. Valuable for cut flowers. The 
var. chrysaster h, hown as the Yellow Marguerite. 
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C. PReALTUM (very high). Golden Feather. Stems branched, 2 i 
high. Leaves, soft, golden 
C. SEGETUM (cornfield), 
Leaves deeply toothed and lobed ; 
pinnately; the upper 
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