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"THE OSTRICH PLUME" 



CHRYSANTHEMUM (Mrs. Alpheus Hardy). 



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O engraving - can do justice to 

 the unique arid peerless beauty 

 of this new Chrysanthemum. Im- 

 agine plants completely studded with 

 balls of flowers one foot or more 

 in circumference, whose petals curve 

 gracefully inward, and which in turn 

 are dotted with a peculiar hairy 

 or plume-like growth — the whole 

 resembling more than anything else 

 masses of Snow White Ostrich 

 Plumes, and you then begin to 

 form some idea of the beauty of 

 this royal flower. Yet a description 

 only partly conveys to the mind 

 the singularly novel and beautiful 

 effect produced bv this rare de- 

 velopment, and falls far short of the 

 reality, which is so softly beautiful 

 — and withal so fantastic — as to be 

 unapproached bv anything we can 

 recall, unless it be the exquisite 

 frost tracery seen upon glass in cold 

 weather. No garden or collection 

 of Chrysanthemums will be complete 

 this season if it does not contain 

 the Ostrich Plume Chrysan- 

 themum. 



CHBYSANTHEMTTM, " MRS. ALPHF.US HARDY." 



Price, strong plants, 40 cts. each ; 3 for $1.00, 7 for $2.00. 12 for $3.00. 

 Second size plants, 20 cts. each ; $2.00 per dozen. 



The plants ordered by roe, and sent by you on April loth, arrived safe and in good condition. They are entirely satisfactory. TB$%^^anth{mums are Sne plants, 

 and you have given good measure and running over. — N. Sherhard, Washington, Pa. 



