CHAPTER XI 



The Pompon Chrysanthemum 



Experience of an amateur with the old-fashioned type — Hardiness 

 of pompons — Their decorative value and ease of culture 



The following experience of an amateur 

 covers so thoroughly the culture of the 

 garden's last dependable flower of the season 

 that it is made a chapter by itself. 



" The pompon chrysanthemum rewards the 

 grower better than most flowers, as it is that 

 rare thing, a hardy autumn plant, keeping 

 in bloom for a month after almost everything 

 else has gone, and able with its masses 

 of blossoms to maintain a gay looking 

 garden. 



"Whenever I see the strange shapes of the 

 odd chrysanthemums on which the profes- 

 sionals so pride themselves, and whenever I 

 note how quickly those queer flowers fade, I 

 think with satisfaction of my own unpre- 

 tentious but prolific plantation. Not one 

 flower to a stem, but often more than fifty; 

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