Plant NOW for Fall Flowers -By Emily Rhodes, 



Pennsyl- 

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WHAT THE HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS WILL DO IN THE ONE SEASON— MAKE A START 

 THIS SPRING, AND HAVE FLOWERS IN THE LATE FALL DAYS EVERY YEAR AFTER 



WHEN in the 

 fall I look 

 around my garden 

 and see the masses 

 of flowers — white, 

 pink, yellow and rich 

 red-browns in a 

 hundred gradations 

 of tone — I am filled 

 with amazement at 

 the easiness of it all. 

 I feel sorry, too, 

 that so many other 

 gardens around are 

 not so well dressed, 

 their floral wealth 

 having utterly van- 

 ished with the first 

 real touch of frost. 

 The old-fashioned 

 little button- 

 flowered hardy 

 chrysanthemums of 

 long ago have been 

 outclassed in use- 

 fulness by some of 

 the newer kinds 

 which are richer in 

 their bloom. The 

 hardiness was the 



one great attraction of those old favorites; 

 to-day we have the same hardiness with 

 added beauty. Even a chosen few of the 

 real large-flowered chrysanthemums of the 

 florist will flourish in the hardy border if 

 given average good conditions. 



Aiglon d'Or. a golden yellow, is a larger flowered 

 variety worth having 



A border with hardy chrysanthemums, in which there is a riot of beautiful colors every fall 



I have seen these flowers in my own 

 garden that measured between two and 

 three inches in diameter, and have picked 

 many dozens from one plant. If I had 

 cut off some of the flower buds, I could 

 have increased the size of the remaining 

 blooms, for by growing only a few blooms 

 to a plant, I have seen those chrysanthe- 

 mums measure four inches in diameter. 



Last fall I had over 1300 of these plants 

 in bloom from the beginning of September 

 until the snow came. The first to bloom 

 was Autumn Queen, deep pink. It is best 

 to plant this alone as a hedge or in front of 

 shrubbery, for it spreads so fast that it will 

 kill any other chrysanthemums that are 

 near it. About ten days later the others 

 begin to bloom. Among the newer ones most 

 worthy of cultivation are Mme. Mar the, 

 Prince Victor, Boston, King Henry, Julia 

 Lagravere, Aiglon d'Or, Golden Pheasant 

 and many others too numerous to name. 



The only requirement for these flowers 

 to bloom each fall is to plant them once 

 in the spring — any time in April or 

 May — in good rich soil. You do not even 

 have to cover them in winter to protect 

 them. And they increase easily of them- 

 selves, or cuttings taken in spring can be 

 planted in specially prepared soil and will 

 surely root. I now have in my garden 

 1,000 plants; yet I bought, in these last 

 six years, only about 200 plants! Many 

 of them were grown from cuttings but 

 more by dividing the roots. Up to July 

 1st each year, the plants grow tall and I 

 keep cutting them back, taking off about 



four inches. This 

 induces the develop- 

 ment of side bran- 

 ches. The pieces cut 

 off I plant either in 

 a box of earth or 

 in the garden in 

 rows, where they are 

 watered daily, and 

 are sheltered from 

 the sun until they 

 are well rooted. If 

 showy plants are 

 wanted, plant large 

 clumps in the fall. 

 I strongly advise fall 

 planting of clumps; 

 when it is possible to 

 do it. These clumps 

 can be divided tie 

 following spring. 



In one of the bor- 

 ders of my garden 

 the fall effect of these 

 hardy chrysanthe- 

 mums is most beau- 

 tiful. Daffodils come 

 with March an d 

 April; the tufted 

 violas bloom all 

 summer. Then come the irises — a row 

 just inside of the violas. Tall, light-blue 

 larkspur, lilies of all kinds, perennial phlox 

 and monk's hood carry on the succession 

 till in the fall come the chrysanthemums. 

 Every three feet have I planted them. I am 

 never without some bloom in that border. 



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Autumn Queen, a deep pink, is the first to bloom 



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