. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgo. T/fi- Ai\rERrc.\x Florist. 229. cv^HNS^Hl\^t>^viv^ h^um t. NN\otHtR. John (Harris), incurved, lovely piiiU ill color, very large, {jood lor any I>ur|iose, but es])eeially so for cut (lowers, l)rouounec(l the best of tlie color u]) to (late. If most of the above are not lound in every winnins,' colleetion next autumn, both as cut flowers .and s|)eeinien ])lants, I shall be very nnieh mistaken. Edwin Lonsdalu. Wyndmoor, Dec. 24, 1S89. Chrysanthemum Harry E. Widener. This has been pronounced by com
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgo. T/fi- Ai\rERrc.\x Florist. 229. cv^HNS^Hl\^t>^viv^ h^um t. NN\otHtR. John (Harris), incurved, lovely piiiU ill color, very large, {jood lor any I>ur|iose, but es])eeially so for cut (lowers, l)rouounec(l the best of tlie color u]) to (late. If most of the above are not lound in every winnins,' colleetion next autumn, both as cut flowers .and s|)eeinien ])lants, I shall be very nnieh mistaken. Edwin Lonsdalu. Wyndmoor, Dec. 24, 1S89. Chrysanthemum Harry E. Widener. This has been pronounced by competent judges to be one of the very best new chrysanthemums and the finest yellow vet produced. It is bright lemon yellow in color, flowers large, borne on stout stems, the plant of excellent habit. This is the variety which received the Blanc ])ri2e, a silver cup, at the Philadelphia show. The engraving is about two thirds the size of the flowers exhibited, and is from Mr. K. Blanc, the Philadel- phia engraver. Spoiling the Chrysanthemum. The and gardeners are at their old tricks again, and all the beauty and grace ol the chrysanthemum arc being destroyed. In their place we have ob- jects as artistic and delightful as the cauliflower, that pride of horticulture, or as charming to view as that handsome object, the cricket ball. The average gar- dener considers a good incurved chrysan- themum as the perfection of beauty and art. To any lover of flowers, to say nothing of any person with any artistic sense, the incurved section are simply hideous monstrosities. Then to hear of their being curled, and frilled, and set with other jjctals and gum is as disgust- ing as to see ])eople frizzed, or dyed, or niade beautiful for ever by Mnie. Rachel. Surely such vulgarities should be eschewed in the garden of all People were formerly in the hands of I he gardeners and floristsinsuch matters. Tliey laid down that a carnation must be an exact circle, that a pansy should b
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