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Frank K. Wilcox (Fig. 39) resembles von 
much some of the best forms of African mari 
golds; is of a rich golden amber color, very pro 
lific and persistent. It is a persistently flower 
mg variety and a type that has many admirers. 
The flowers shown at Figs. 41 and 42 (p. 71) 
are seedlings not named and perhaps the most 
remarkable among the numerous types. Fig. 
41 has petals tubular for a quarter of their dis¬ 
tance, when they flatten out into divided sur- 
MR. ALLEN’S CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
WILLIAM FALCONER. 
Mr. Allen is an amateur living at Wood- 
bridge, N. J. At the chrysanthemum exhibi¬ 
tion of the New York Horticultural Society 
last November, he showed some of the finest 
flowers I ever saw either in this or any other 
country. He writes me as follows: “He who 
would have chrysanthemums in his garden, 
must have chrysanthemums in his heart.” 
His Garden.— “I have no glasshouse,” he 
says. “All my plants were raised in the open 
ground, not so much because I thought it the 
best way, but from sheer necessity, to save 
labor and expense. The soil at my place is 
heavy clay of the most intractable kind, so 
that when a very dry season comes, you can 
crack a hickory nut on it. I have mitigated 
it all I could with wood and coal ashes. I 
lift and put my roots in the cellar in the Win¬ 
ter.” 
Spring Treatment and Planting.— “ In 
May I take the roots out of my cellar and di¬ 
vide them. I take the shoobjHpoming up from 
the roots. Mine wore plaj^^about two feet 
apart, and I grew few sh<J^Wo a plant.” 
Summer Care.—' “I give them all the a-ar- 
PROGRESSIYE HORTICULTURE. 
CHRYS ANTH EMUMS. 
JOHN THORPE. 
8 S to what can be done by 
yT intelligent and persistent 
application of well direct- 
y . ed efforts in the produc- 
wl tion of new and handsome 
W varieties of flowers from 
m a very limited ground¬ 
's^ work, we have only to 
y/ compare the different 
classes of pelargoniums, 
} Chinese Primulas, the Tu¬ 
berous-rooted Boliviau 
Begonia and the chry- 
, sauthemums, with vari- 
^-^ eties of 20 years since. 
The pelargonium, known as the Scarlet Ger¬ 
anium oi* Fish Geranium, had flowers at that 
time defective in nearly all properties: loose 
and thin separated petals with colors very 
limited, small trusses of flowers, and strag¬ 
gling habits of growth. The Chinese Prim¬ 
roses Were of only two shades of color—a very 
indefinite lilac and a white, tinged with green 
aud pink. The flowers at. the very largest 
were not more than three-fourths of an inch 
in diameter. Compare these with the brilliant 
carmines, crimson-purples, the superb whites, 
to say nothing of the various striped flowers 
two inches across,with elegaut serrated edges. 
Then the begonias are really beyond the most 
enthusiastic hybridizer’s imaginations, bound¬ 
ing to the fore, as they liave in 15 years, from 
two straggling species with loosely formed flow¬ 
ers, to those of to-day having flowers double 
and single, many of which are fully six inches 
in diameter, ot nearly all shades of red, yel¬ 
low and white. As to the chrysanthemum, it 
A.MY ROSA MONDE. From Natur 
Pitti-Sing (Fig. 40, p. 70) is a very interest¬ 
ing aud distinct kind. It can be readily seen 
how peculiar are its petals; tubular for nearly 
their whole length; the first being the longest, 
after which each whorl gets shorter until some 
j l,u- es of various lengths, some of the petals 
. having three divisions over an inch deep and 
| spreading fully three-quarters of an inch. 
I FiS- 42 has the same division of the petals of 
I their extremities, but the bases are flat and 
muslin covering for chrysanthemums. 
I GROW an enormous quantity of chrysan¬ 
themums, aud bloom the whole of them out-of- 
doors, partly iu beds and blocks in warm 
sheltered places, tor garden decoration’s sake, 
aud partly under a musliu covering as de¬ 
scribed by Mr. Allen for yielding cut-flowers 
Lust Fall I had 300 plants under the mus¬ 
lin covering aud ’vas extremely well pleased 
with the result. They began to bloom as 
early as the earliest iu any part of the garden 
aud my last gathering from them was on the 
first of December By that time most of the 
FRANK WILCOX 
From Nature 
actually fail to get out of their disc. The 
tubes are silvery piuk; whilst the lobes are 
claret crimson. Of this type the first appear¬ 
ed in 1884; the past year no less than 10 colors 
having the same peculiarities, have been added. 
strap-like. Many colors have appeared in 
those two types; but as yet no very dark or 
pure yellow. It may be justly considered that, 
these two types will become very popular after 
further development. 
East Hinsdale, N. Y. 
