Ornamentals. 



will send you some of my best varieties. I always grow 

 them the natural way, without disbudding. This is the 

 best way to test the true value of a variety. I keep the 

 best for seed and destroy the balance. I have obtained 

 some beautiful varieties in the past two years. They seed 

 very freely outdoors here, but not in the greenhouse. It 

 may be that the air is too damp without fire heat. This 

 applies also to carnation-seedlings.' When we realize that 

 an acre of chrysanthemums can be raised and cared for 

 with very little more expense than we can raise an acre of 

 corn, it is no wonder that the conservatives are nervous. 

 Radical changes will be necessary in a very short time to con- 

 trol the chrysanthemum-novelty fever. 



"The exhibitions which were held in the smaller towns last 

 autumn would have done credit to any of the large cities six 

 or eight years ago. The best varieties for exhibition pur- 

 poses, grown as pot-plants, seem to be the following : Robert 

 Bottomley, similar to Moonlight, but superior to that good old 

 sort \ Lilian B. Bird, delicate pink in color, tubular florets : Exhibi- 

 Cullingfordi, rich crimson, hardly surpassed to-day in its line of plants, 

 color ; President Harrison, darker in color than the preceding, 

 not so bright, broad florets and large flowers ; Mrs. Irving 

 Clark, pink, very large ; Kioto, bright yellow in color, beautiful 

 in shape, but the steins are rather too weak to make it an ideal 

 exhibition variety; Mr. H. Cannell, in same line of color and 

 form as the last, may he better suited to the purpose indica- 

 ted, as it has stouter and more erect stems ; Gold, also 

 known as Mrs. Richard Elliott, is a very healthy grower, in- 

 clined to be late, and the flowers are about medium in size ; 

 Frank Wilcox, bronzy yellow, is rather a small flower, yet on 

 account of its sturdy habit of growth and bright color it 

 lights up a collection of plants better than almost any other 

 kind ; Puritan generally comes a delicate pink in color, though 

 it is occasionally pure white , Neesima, one of the lot which 

 came over with the Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, is still one of the 

 best and most beautiful yellows we have, there being some- 

 thing very distinct in its coloring, yet hard to describe ; W. 

 H. Lincoln is another good yellow that cannot be too highly 

 recommended, either as an exhibition pot-plant or for cut- 

 flowers ; Mrs. A. Blanc is a good pink, and a robust, healthy 

 grower ; Louis Boehmer, the pink ostrich-plume, makes a 



