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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Botanically the Chrysanthemum is a glorified Ox-eye Daisy, 

 trying hard to raise itself from a herbaceous perennial into an 

 evergreen shrub. It belongs to the great natural family of the 

 Daisy Flowers (Composite), and what we as gardeners call a 

 " flower " or a " bloom" is really a flower-head or capitulum (a) 

 made up of a hundred or more separate individual flowers, all 

 neatly arranged into a bouquet-like group, and held in their 

 places by a cup-shaped common calyx or involucre, as shown in 

 this diagram (b). In fact, composite flowers are made up 0 n 



P floret,* 



seeds, x. 



synyeneswus 



anthers,*. 



The Chrysanthemum. 



a. Diagram showing arrangement and analysis of flower-head, or capitulum. 



b. Involucral bracts. c. Hermaphrodite florets. 

 d, d, d. Female florets, or ray. e, e. Disc of the capitulum. 

 /,/,/. Syngenesious anthers. g. Bifurcate stigma. 



h. Pollen grains. i- Seeds. 



