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extremities ; Oriole, golden yellow with twisted petals. Here 

 are 9 new candidates, and as I have said, they all promise to 

 be of the highest merit. It must be borne in mind that I 

 have not seen all seedlings this year, and there may be some 

 even better than any here named. I have passed over at 

 least 300 varieties in making the above selection. Before 

 closing I mention the new imported Louise Bcehmer, a pink 

 Mrs. Hardy ; it will be a valuable acquisition. In the same 

 collection is Omar, a reflexed flower having petals of a deep 

 blood color and of an inch wide. The sports from the 

 Chinese varieties, Mrs. S. Coleman, Violet Tomlin and Mrs. 

 M. A. Haggis will find many admirers. 



§5. CHRYSANTHEMUMS OF 1889. BY H. P. WALCOTT, IN (i GAR- 

 DEN AND FOREST." 



The record of the year, so far as the introduction of new 

 varieties of great promise goes, has not been an encourage- 

 ing one. A larger number of new kinds than has ever before 

 been offered appeared in the spring catalogues of growers in 

 America and Europe \ and, with very few exceptions, the ex- 

 perience of this season will probably strike from the list nine- 

 tenths of them as not having sufficiently distinct qualities to 

 justify their propagation. Some allowance should be made 

 for the unfavorable influences of an exceptionally bad season 

 for plants grown in the open ground. But the new flowers are 

 not, in themselves, either in form, color or substance, marked 

 improvements on those already in existence. 



Mrs. A. Hardy, the principal novelty of the year, notwith- 

 standing its apparently great vigor of growth, has not done 

 well ; not a plant of it was shown at the Chrysanthemum Ex- 

 hibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The 

 flowers, however, were shown, and have the same attractive 

 qualities that excited so much enthusiasm last year. There 

 has also been exhibited this season, under the name of Louis 

 Bcehmer, a flower having the hairy petals peculiar to Mrs. 

 Hardy. The color of the flowers, however, is a dull pink, not 

 at all pleasing, at least in the specimen shown at Boston. 

 Whether Louis Bcehmer is a sport from Mrs. Hardy or an 

 original seedling imported from Japan was not stated. 



Messrs. Pitcher & Manda have received, in a recent impor- 



