SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 



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the more so if some light shelter is ar- 

 ranged to ward offbeating rains. In this 

 way they follow and prolong the season 

 of the early -flowered kinds, until hard 

 frost cuts them down. The collection 

 of single Chrysanthemums-flowered at 

 Earlswood includes all the best older 

 kinds and a number of seedlings under 



trial 



white and cream flowers are, as 



flower, as grown by Mr. Wells and 

 several times shown at the Drill Hall, 

 is Lady Ma?~guerite Douglas, a large 

 bloom, very pure and well formed yet 

 not too formal, with just enough sub- 

 stance for beauty without heaviness. It 

 comes very large for a single when dis- 

 budded, and is a most attractive flower. 

 Coronation, as its name implies, is an 



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CHRYSANTHEMUM, "CORONATION. (Engraved for. '"Flora.")! 



usual, commonest amongst these new 

 kinds, but there are good flowers of 

 other colours, and for ease of reference 

 there is, perhaps, no better method of 

 classing them. 



Of these ever-useful whites there is 



white-fiowered a lar g e choice, giving 

 Kinds. much variation in habit, 

 size, and time of flower. A good new 



older kind but good and distinct, of 

 sturdy, dwarf habit and good foliage; it 

 is best disbudded, but not too closely, 

 letting plenty of buds develop. A good 

 idea of the mature flower is conveyed 

 by our engraving, the broad incurving 

 petals and the large greenish centre, 

 which so admirably sets off the puri- 

 ty of a flower, being well shown. The 



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