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not seive materially to improve the reputation of the variety. Still 
nurserymen supplied themselves with a stock of young plants or cut¬ 
tings as soon as they could be secured, and a member of the firm which 
has been looked for quite anxiously, each grower trying his utmost to 
have the first blooms expanded. As announced last week, Mr. T. S. 
Ware of Tottenham has succeeded in accomplishing this task, and from 
Fig. 47.—CHRYSANTHEMUM, MRS. ALPHEUS HARDY. 
'sent it out came to England to act as agent, and, if necessary, to grow 
a stock of it. This looked as if they felt some confidence in its qualities, 
and so a good deal of curiosity was awakened here, and its flowering 
a plant now flowering in the Hale Farm Nurseries, the illustration 
(fig. 47) was prepared. 
The history of the variety may be briefly delated as follows :—Mrs. 
