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my choice if confined to one yellow variety. 

 When disbudded it is glorious. 



Carrie. Deep yellow, 2 feet. Early 

 September. 



George Wermig. Rich sulphur yellow, 

 sport from Mme. Desgranges. 



Mrs. A. Willis. Yellow shaded red, 2 

 feet, September. Extremely free and very 

 large; beautiful in sprays. 



Le Pactole. Yellow suffused bronze, 3 

 feet, early October. Large flower. 



Mytchett Glory. Yellow suffused with 

 bronze, 2? to 3 feet, late September and 

 October. This must be ranked among the 

 best of the early varieties. It forms a most 

 symmetrical plant, -with large flowers. 



Louis Lemaire. Rosy bronze, shaded 

 yellow, 2§ feet. September. 



Pollie. Deep orange, 2 feet. Late Sep- 

 tember. One of the "must have." By 

 disbudding, the flowers may be had from 

 5 to 6 inches in diameter; Japanese in- 

 curved type, with heavy broad petals. 



Harrie. Beautiful bronzy orange with 

 broad incurving petals, 2 feet. Flowering 

 in September. 



Crimson Marie Masse. Deep bronzy 

 crimson, 2 feet. Late August. 



Lillie. Pearl pink, 2 feet. Late Sep- 

 tember. Very large. 



Blush Beauty. Pale pink, 2 to 2§ feet in 

 height. Flowering from early September. 



Bobbie Burns. Sport from Mme Masse. 

 Rich salmon pink, 2\ feet. Late August. 



Henri Yvon. Beautiful shade of rosy 

 salmon, 2 feet. Late August or September. 



Early Beauty. Pale rosy mauve, 2 feet. 

 Early September. A splendid variety for 

 disbudding, extremely free flowering and 

 certainly one of the very best. 



Mme. Marie Masse. Color, lilac mauve, 

 2 feet. Flowering from end of August until 

 severe frost. This is an extremely free- 

 flowering variety, habit branching and ro- 

 bust, one of the very best early kinds for 

 border culture. The introduction of this 

 fine variety in 1894 was the beginning of 

 the triumph of this type. Within a 

 few years it sported in many gardens, 

 in a most remarkable manner, giving us 

 white, bronzy-crimson, cerise, yellow and 

 many intermediate colors. 



Harvest Home. Reddish crimson, tipped 

 golden, 3 feet. September. An old but 

 well-tried variety and one of the very 

 brightest. 



Goacker's Crimson. The petals are broad 

 and have a gold reverse, of Japanese in- 

 curved type, 2\ feet. Flowers throughout 

 September and October. The largest and 

 finest early deep crimson variety. 



Jimmie. Purplish crimson, 2 feet. 

 Flowering from mid-September. A very 

 large flower. 



Sunflowers as Stakes 



TT'OR several years I have been bothered 

 -T somewhat in keeping my dahlias off the 

 ground. Last season I tried a new scheme, 

 which worked. I planted a quantity of 

 sunflower seed in my garden; and after the 

 dahlia plants had appeared above the ground 

 I set a sunflower plant beside each dahlia. 

 Every few days I would trim off the leaves 

 from the sunflower, to which I tie the 

 dahlia — O. C. E., Michigan. 



A typical well grown plant of the Early Flowering Japanese chrysanthemum . It was grown naturally in a border, without disbudding and had 400 flowers 



when photographed. October 10th (Mrs. Burrell) 



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