20 
EVERGREEN LODGE. 
SHADING. 
If plants arc grown in pots it is necessary to shade them through July and Au- 
gust. With a light canvas shading through the warmest part of the day they grow 
more vigorously and the labor of watering them is reduced considerably. It also 
keeps up a vigorous growth and the plants are consequently not apt to get dry and 
hardened as if fully exposed to the sun. 
A FEW POINTS. 
Don’t expect large perfect flowers in poor soil from plants that have been 
dried up and neglected. Don't expect your blooms to he as fine as the catalogue 
cuts represent them unless you give them the same close attention as the blooms 
have had from which those cuts were made. Take any Chrysanthemum that you 
please, keep it growing and well fed. with plenty of drink; take the same variety 
and let it struggle along for existence, starved and thirsty. In the Fall cut u 
blossom from each plant and they will not resemble each other in any respect, 
not even in color. The same trouble will arise with a well grown plant if it is not 
carefully disbudded. Many a customer thinks his Chrysanthemum untrue to 
description, when the sole and entire cause of his disappointment is poor culture. 
GENERAL COLLECTION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
The varieties enumerated in this list are all good. All old varieties have been 
discarded to give place to newer sorts of higher merit. Only in caves of much 
merit have older varieties been retained. This list comprises all the novelties of 
two years ago. now offered at the following low prices. 
Price 10 cents each, 3 for 25 cents, 7 for 50 cents, 15 for $1.00, Pur- 
chaser’s Selection of varieties. Our Selection from this 
list, all named, 18 for $1.00, by Mail or Express. 
Advance. Incurved, of perfect shape, a 
deep pink, hut quite distinct from ev- 
ery other kind. 
Alice Bird. A large, compact flower of 
intensely bright buttercup yellow. 
Alcyou. Very large carmine rose, strip- 
ed white, reverse rose. 
Ada Spaulding. A striking variety of 
globular form: petals very large, broad 
and solid; color shading from the pur- 
est pearl white to a deep pink on the 
lower petals. 
Auriole. A lemon yellow, shading to 
white as it matures; flowers produced 
on stout stems: foliage fine; one of the 
best. 
Aristine Anderson. Resembles Miss 
Mary Morgan: a decided pink and 
larger blooms; double flowers with a 
high centre. 
Alcazar. Incurved Japanese: of robust 
habit; flowers on strong stems; the 
upper surface of petals a bronze red, 
shading to yellow at tips, with reverse 
old gold. 
Anna Dorner. Full, tine', bold flower, 
with outer petals striped and shaded a 
rich carmine, centre cream white. 
AnnaM. Weybrecht. Magnificent Chi- 
nese variety of purest snow white, the 
f >etals solid, broad and firm; of strong 
mbit. 
Anna J. Sprague. Flowers are very 
large, having widely spreading, reflex- 
ed petals; color white, lined and mot- 
tled with rosy pink. 
Bolero. Rich chrome yellow; flowers 
large, reflexed; habit robust. 
Beacon. Magnificent full and double 
creamy white flowers, borne on strong 
stems; the outer row of petals arc tub- 
ular and reflexed. while those nearer 
the centre are incurved, with broad 
convex tips. 
Ben d’Or. Handsome twisted yellow. 
Christmas Eve. A magnificent, white 
of great beauty. 
Comte de Germiny. A hright yellow, 
with broad petals, shaded bronze. 
Cnllingfordii. A rich crimson shaded 
scarlet: very large reflexed flowers, 
beautiful and distinct. 
Coronet. The richest golden orange, 
incurving to the centre; occasionally 
crimson stripes on the inner side of 
petals. 
Cyrus H. McCormick. Very vigorous 
grower, producing. stiff flower stems: 
resembles W. H. Lincoln in form: the 
flowers are large, a deep, dark yellow, 
shaded with bronze. 
Clancey Lloyd. A delicate flesh pink, 
changing to pure white; petals med- 
ium in width, flat and cup shaped, in- 
curving and covering centre. 
Duchess of Manchester. Rest white 
Chinese variety in cultivation. 
Domination. A grand variety; flowers 
creamy white, large and fine. 
Diana. One of the best whites. 
Duchess. Deep red. tipped yellow. 
