Muto’s Crimson, deep red, medium size, semi-incurved............. Dec. 10 
Bronze MIstTLeTor, bronze sport of Mistletoe, good commercial..Dec. 20 
(Be sure to include packing and parcel post charges) 
ENGLISH VARIETIES 
For the past several issues I have included in my cata- 
logues considerable comment about the English varieties; 
their major characteristics, how they became so widely dis- 
seminated, their relative advantages and disadvantages. Now 
they do combine earliness with larger-than-average size for 
outdoor-grown mums (though not exhibition size). They thus 
afford people in the central belt of the United States the op- 
portunity of growing good-sized blooms out in the open gar- 
den—something it is difficult to do with the usual standard 
and exhibition varieties. Consequently, gardeners who had 
been growing the hardy types in their gardens, welcomed with 
open arms this new “strain” that would give them larger 
blooms on equally hardy plants. However, their popularity 
has suffered considerably in the last year or so, as much 
progress has been made by our American hybridizers along 
the same line; that is of producing varieties that could be 
grown outside and yet produce good-sized blooms on plants 
that were reasonably hardy. Also, many crosses and re-crosses 
have been made with the original English “strain”, to the ex- 
tent that the real “English” strain has about lost its identity 
as such. Many of the multitude of new varieties introduced 
each year are hybrids, or crosses, with English varieties. 
The past year was unusually hard on my English varieties, 
as they were in a portion of my garden that I could not reach 
with the hose. Some varieties I lost completely—some only a 
few plants survived. As a result I will no longer carry in this 
or future catalogues a separate listing under the caption 
“English Varieties”, but will include the English and their 
various hybrids in the appropriate captions, as determined by 
their size, color, ete. 
IMPORTATIONS 
Last spring I received from a flower-friend in Belgium a 
number of color photographs of his choice of the better exhi- 
bition varieties as grown in Belgium and Northern France. I 
thought so well of them that I ordered a dozen or so just to 
experiment with. The plants arrived by air mail in good con- 
dition and proved to be very vigorous in growth. As previ- 
ously mentioned in the Preface, they did unusually well de- 
spite our unprecedented drought, and I was well pleased with 
the blcoms—so much so in fact that I am listing below several 
varieties that I have a reasonable surplus of: 
Plants 50¢ Each—As Long as They Last. 
CONGRES D’ORLEANS.—Large incurved bloom; color deep 
red with maroon reverse; very vigorous growth; responds 
well to disbudding. 
HEROS J. GUIZONNIER.—Immense flower with incurved 
center; color deep rose-nurple. Plant vigcrous and bloom 
long-lasting. Tall erect growth. 
LUCIFER.—A Japanese incurved type; very large bloom; 
color carmine red, 
SOUVENIR De J. MOULIN.—A grand incurved flower, red 
with buff or bronze reverse. Excellent growth habit and 
beautiful foliage. 
SUCY.—Magnificent white bloom; irregularly incurved and ot 
exhibition size. Responds we!l to disbudding, but will pro- 
duce fair-sized blooms without disbudding. Has won a 
number of prizes in Europe. 
Mme. DUMONT.—The yellow sport of Sucy; rossesses all the 
excellent qualities of Suey—only differenze iz the color. 
FNS etn 
