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John Lane. (Harris.) Lovely pink in color, incurved in 

 shape. It is considered the best pink in existence for cut 

 flowers. 



Charles A. Reeser. (Harris.) Violet pink, a new shade 

 not easy to describe ; reflexed flower ; good habit. This will 

 make a good variety for specimen plants for exhibition. 



Clara Riemen. (Riemen.) Lavender, shading to silvery 

 rose, white centre ; large spreading flower, of good substance. 



T. H. Spaulding will send out : Ada Spaulding, Addie 

 Decker, Antoinette Martin, Cyclone, E. Gurney Hill, G. P. 

 Rawson, Garnet, J. R. Pitcher, Mrs. D. D. L. Farson, Marie 

 Ward, Mrs. T. A. Edison, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Zenobia. 



§3. CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWS OF 1 889. BY JOHN THORPE, IN 

 THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



Never before have there been such shows as those of 

 the present year. It is really surprising how the cultivation 

 of the chrysanthemum is taken up, and with what enthusiasm 

 it is diffused. It has been said for three or four years that 

 after another year this chrysanthemum craze will be at an 

 end, as there will be nothing new to offer, and the people will 

 tire without novelty. Those who made such predictions can 

 do so again, and at the end of a decade they will be farther 

 from the end than now, so far as public interest is concerned. 

 The magnificence and extent of the exhibitions of this year on 

 the whole surpass any we have had in the country before. 

 The decorations and arrangements of each exhibition have 

 been a special feature, all different, all in good taste and thor- 

 oughly well done. There have been the finest 12 plants and 

 the finest 300 cut-flowers ever seen in the country. There are 

 seedlings surpassing all we have in cultivation ; one, a novelty 

 from Japan, that may be sought for more than the famous Mrs. 

 Alpheus Hardy. 



The show of the National Chrysanthemum Society was held at 

 Indianapolis, November 5th to 10th. — The show was a success 

 in every way. The decorations were exquisitely done and 

 delightfully effective. Wreaths of laurel in festoons hung 

 from point to point, from which again hung Florida moss 

 {Tillandsia usneoides) yet not in sufficient quantities to interfere 

 with the general arrangements. The balcony was draped 



