JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



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varieties out of a hundred in the list were grown prior to 1880, more than half of the 

 varieties in the selection of fifty incurved were cultivated then as now. In stoutness 

 of texture in the florets, and solidity of bloom, the true incurved chrysanthemum is 

 unique ; and, for preserving the characteristics unimpaired, adjudicators on new varieties 

 should be slow to admit into this section those which, as apparently the result of 

 intercrossing with the Japanese race, betray their origin by quilling at the base of 

 the florets, undue length and thinness of the same, with the peculiar twist or twirl 

 which is absent from the pure Chinese incurved blooms. Under what may be termed 

 the modern cult of size-worshippers, and the pressure of commercial influence, there 

 is a danger of some of the most beautiful and refined of incurved chrysanthemums 

 being driven out of cultivation by a more or less tainted race which can very well be 

 either dispensed with or placed in a decorative group, as is done in the case of Dahlias 

 and Pelargoniums, which are not true representatives of either the "show" or "fancy" 

 sections. 



The remaining sections of chrysanthemums call for no particular comment as their 

 attributes and properties are adequately set forth as indicated on page 1 of the present 

 volume. 



SELECTIONS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 

 One Hundred Japanese Varieties. 



References. — Heights : D. dwarf, M. medium, T. tall. Seasons : E. early, M. mid-season, L. late. Best 

 twelve varieties * ; Best twenty-four % ; Best forty-eight f ; Best twelve incurved Japanese § . 





Raiser and Year. 



Height. 



00 





Raiser and Year. 



W 



Season. 



White. 







fMadame Ad. Moullin 



(Calvat, 1893) 



M. 



M. 



ftBmily Silsbury 



(Silsbury, 1896) 



M. 



E. 



Princess May 



(Agate, 1893) 



M. 



E. 



Enfant des deux Mondes 



(Crozy, 1893) 



D. 



E. 



Souvenir de petite Amie 



(Calvat, 1893) 



D. 



E. 



Florence Davis 



(N. Davis, 1891) 



M. 



M. 



ft Western King (Nathan Smith, 1896) 



M. 



M. 



W. G. Newitt (E. G. Hill & Co., 1893) 



D. 



M. 











§Lady Byron 



(Weeks, 1896) 



M. 



M. 



Bronze. 







tMadame Ad. Chatin 



(Calvat, 1893) 



1). 



M. 



t Directeur Tisserand 



(Calvat, 1895) 



M. 



M. 



* X t Madame Carnot 



(Calvat, 1894) 



T. 



M. 



Lord Brooke (Pitcher 



& Manda, 1892) 



M. 



M. 



Madame C. Molin 



(Calvat, 1893) 



M. 



E. 



Mrs. Falconer Jameson 



(CanneU, 1890) 



D. 



M. 



{Madame Gustave Henry 



(Calvat, 1896) 



D. 



E. 



tMrs. Hermann Kloss 



(Seward, 1896) 



M. 



M- 



Mdlle. M. A. de Galbert 



(Calvat, 1894) 



M. 



M. 



fMrs. John Shrimpton 



(Seward, 1896) 



M. 



M. 



Mdlle. Marie Hoste 



(Lacroix, 1891) 



M. 



M. 



Mons. C. Molin 



(Calvat, 1894) 



M. 



L. 



tfMdlle. Therese Rey 



(Calvat, 1892) 



M. 



M. 



§t Miss Maggie Blenkiron 



(Shea, 1894) 



M. 



M. 



}|Miss Elsie Teichmann 



(Shea, 189,3) 



D. 



M. 



Mrs. Dr. Ward (Pitcher 



& Manda, 1892) 



M. 



E. 



tMr. 0. Blick 



(Cutbush, 1895) 



M. 



M. 



}§t Robert Owen 



(Owen, 1892) 



T. 



L. 



'{fMutual Friend 



(Mann, 1893) 



D. 



E. 



T. Wilkins 



(Owen, 1894) 



M. 



M. 



Niveus (S 



mith & Son, 1893) 



M. 



M. 



f* Charles Davis 



(N. Davis, 1893) 



D. 



E. 



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