AN EDITORIAL FOREWORD. 
In issuing a fourth edition of this work, which has 
hitherto met with a popular reception from lovers of 
the Chrysanthemum as an attractive greenhouse and 
garden autumn-flowering plant, it is quite unnecessary 
for us to eulogise its value as a sound practical guide 
to its successful cultivation. 
The Author (Mr. D. B. Crane, F.R.H.S.) has made 
a life-long study of the Chrysanthemum, and, as a 
grower and exhibitor, proved his ability to deal 
thoroughly with all its phases. Moreover, as Chairman 
for many years of the Floral Committee of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society, he has had exceptional oppor- 
tunities of making himself acquainted with all the 
merits and demerits of the hundreds of varieties in 
cultivation, and so his selections hereafter given, which, 
by the way, have been revised up to date, may be 
relied upon to be the cream of the respective types or 
classes. 
All, therefore, that is necessary for us to say is, that 
the literary pages have been revised, new illustrations 
added, and the work generally brought into consonance 
with modern requirements. At the same time we need 
hardly allude to the fact that, in consequence of the 
late war, very few new varieties were raised or placed 
in commerce, and many old ones of merit were lost to 
cultivation, but now the world is once more at peace 
there will, no doubt, be a steady revival in the growth 
of the Chrysanthemum for garden and greenhouse 
decoration, also in the raising and introduction of new 
sorts. 
1920. 
T. W, S, 
