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CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
CHAPTER II. 
LARGE-FLOWERED JAPANESE, AND 
INCURVED. 
In succeeding chapters the cultivation of the outdoor and 
decorative chrysanthemum are dealt with, but in the 
present instance we are devoting our remarks exclu- 
sively to those varieties (Japanese and Incurved) intended 
for exhibition. In the ’eighties and ’nineties, when 
chrysanthemum shows were at the zenith of their popu- 
larity, the pages of horticultural journals and most 
treatises at that time were almost exclusively devoted to 
the growing of chrysanthemums, with the object of pro- 
ducing large exhibition blooms of high quality. For the 
past twenty years the Japanese kinds have received undue 
preference, to the disadvantage of the incurved type of 
flower, as well as to many other dainty forms, which in 
earlier days were represented at sihows in typical form 
and condition. We now appear to have arrived at a 
period when the claims of the grower of large exhibition 
chrysanthemums have been allocated to their proper 
place, and the less large and smaller flowers are receiv- 
ing recognition ; whereas, in the past, chrysanthemum 
shows were almost exclusively devoted to the very large 
exhibition blooms. Representative shows at the present 
time include all types of the flower, and these are exhi- 
bited in varying condition. Not only are the severely 
disbudded blooms represented in ideal form and condi- 
tion, but chrysanthemums that are termed “ market varie- 
ties ” are exhibited in a condition that at one time seemed 
almost impossible of achievement. It appears to be the 
