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MOSNAT’S CHRYSANTHEMUMS .. . 
Barly - Long ‘Blooming 
To Sustain Morale, ‘‘Say It With Flowers.’’ Flowers and Plants Carry a Universal Method of Cheer — 
A Troubled World Needs Them! 
These Chrysanthemums are hardy, vigor- 
ous and healthy. Very early and extremely 
tree blooming. Start to bloom in July and con- 
tinue to killing frosts—as much as four months. 
Exeellent for Landscape Planting. Many 
eolors. 
Hardy at Grand Forks, North Dakota; 
Houlton, Maine (200 miles northeast of Port- 
land, Maine); Minneapolis, Minn., and_ else- 
where. Survived the great blizzard of Nov. 
11, 1940, unprotected and unharmed. Cushion, 
Korean Hybrid and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 
mums growing alongside were killed. 
Breeze Hill Gardens, Horticultural Laboratory of the J. 
Horace McFarland Co., Mount Pleasant Press, Harrisburg, 
Pas December 35) 1941: 
“Those Chrysanthemum plants which you sent us last 
spring developed into splendid plants about 2 feet 
tall with a 3 ft. spread which gave us masses of 
bloom.” R. Marion Hutton. 
Horticulture, Boston, Mass., magazine of Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society, page 293, 1940: 
“T consider this one of the most important introduc- 
tions of recent years.” Ed. I. Farrington, Editor 
“I feel that you have achieved a real contribution to 
horticulture in your Chrysanthemums and I wish to 
add my appreciation of the results of your efforts.” A. 
J, Hilbert, Elmira, New York 
Iowa State College of Agriculture, Extension Service, 
Ames, Iowa, Nov. 10, 1941: 
“The plants of your origination Chrysanthemum have 
given a good performance in our perennial flower gar- 
den here on the College campus. ‘Thousands of visit- 
ors go through our garden each year and this is a good 
place to acquaint Iowa gardeners with the newest and 
the best of the older varieties. 
“I took a colored picture of Dean Kay Chrysanthe- 
mums which I showed to garden club members 
throughout the state. The variety starts to bloom 
early and blooms over a long period of time, and the 
plant has a good vigorous quality.” L. C. Grove 
Reno, Nevada, December 10, 1941 
“The Chrysanthemum plants did very well. We were 
immensely pleased with them. You certainly know 
your Chrysanthemums.” George Springmeyer 
“That hour in your gardens seems a beautiful dream— 
but we have the pictures to prove its reality. Surely 
you are doing your bit for America by increasing such 
loveliness.” Helen Fischer, Shenandoah, Iowa, Dec. 
21, 1941. 
Mrs. M. B. Kannowski, Superintendent of Parks, 
Grand Forks, North Dakota, also General Chairman Hor- 
ticultural Committee, American Institute of Park Execu- 
tves, in Parks and Recreation magazine, publication of 
that organization, Dec. 1940, pages 152-153, ‘“A Good Park 
Flower.” 
‘Nothing we have had in our borders this year has 
created such interest as these mums. 
“Dean Kay Chrysanthemums would be very effective 
in landscape work when planted in masses in front 
of shrubbery which shows fall color. It would be equal 
ly happy in the rock garden or interspersed in the fall 
border. I consider it a gem for park use.” Mrs. M. B. 
Kannowski wrote that the mums wintered excellently 
1940-1941, including the great blizzard. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM DEAN KAY: 
“Dear Editor: One of the finest and most satisfactory 
perennials in my garden is the new Chrysanthemum 
Dean Kay which was purchased early in the Spring of 
1940, Thinking that this was just another hardy Chrys- 
anthemum, I set it out and proceeded to forget about 
it until September. It grew rapidly and formed buds 
early. 
“After pinching it once or twice, I left it to bloom and 
was more than pleased with an early crov of blos- 
soms about the end of July. These increased in num- 
ber gradually until the plant became a mound of clear, 
deep pink, semi-double flowers. The flowers remained 
profuse, fresh and pink until frost. At first, the plant 
resembled somewhat the old pink Amelia, but that 
similarity was short lived, for the clearer and deeper 
color of the flowers, as well as the greater spread and 
height of the plant dispersed that thought. 
“When the frost finally claimed it I felt that it had 
more than repaid me for the cost of the plant and the 
care given it in its four months of bloom. I am more 
than delighted now to see it has lived over the winter, 
uncovered, and that I can enjoy it another year.” 
Maxine Lewis, Gloucester, Mass. From Horticulture, 
Boston, Mass., magazine of Massachusetts Horticul- 
tural Society, more than 100 years old. June 15, 1941, 
Page 286. 
Flower Garden Magazine, October 30, 1941: 
“IT have just heard from Al Amsel. He says that after 
watching Dean Kay mum over another bloom season he 
finds that it did much better this year than last and 
that the bloom held over a long period. Visitors to his 
garden were practically unanimous in praising it.” 
Paul F. Frese, Editor 
These new Chrysanthemums are now pro- 
duced in many colors — white, pinks, reds, yel- 
lows, oranges, wine, buff, bronzes, etc. Also in 
various types of flowers, such as singles, semi- 
doubles, doubles, cactus flowered, bi-colors, 
and so on, in more than 100 selections from 
many thousands of seedlings in 12 different 
crosses, 
H. ROY MOSNAT, Originator, BELLE PLAINE, IOWA 
