. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 310 CHRYSANTHEMUM is given to the plants, the Japanese kinds are usually less satisfactory than the Pompons. These Pompons are a much neglected class since the rise of the large-flow- ered Japanese kinds, but they are unlike anj^hing else in our garden flora. Their vivid and sometimes too artificial colors harm
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 310 CHRYSANTHEMUM is given to the plants, the Japanese kinds are usually less satisfactory than the Pompons. These Pompons are a much neglected class since the rise of the large-flow- ered Japanese kinds, but they are unlike anj^hing else in our garden flora. Their vivid and sometimes too artificial colors harmonize with nothing else at Thanks- giving time, and they are so strong and commanding that they should have a place by themselves. It is not uncommon for the fls. to be in good condition even after several light falls of snow, and they may be considered the most resistant to frost of any garden herbs. In fact, their peculiar merit is blooming after the landscape is completely desolated by successive frosts. The fls. are not ruined until their petals are wet and then frozen stiff. They are essentially for mass effects of color, and great size is not to be expected. Masses of brown and masses of yellow, side by side, make rich combinations. The whole tribe of crimsons, amaranths, pinks, and the like, should be kept by themselves, be- cause their colors are variable and because they make a violent contrast with yellow, which few persons can ren- der agreeable. The preceding remarks have applied wholly'to varie- ties of C. Indicum and C. morifoUum. The culture of all the other outdoor species is too easy to need any fur- ther remarks, except in the case of G. coccineum, better known as Pyrethrum roseum. In the cultivation of or- namental plants in general, and of hardy, herbaceous plants in particular, few cases are so striking as the great popularity of Pyrethrum roseum in the Old World, and the feeble and uncertain hold that it has in America. W. M. SECTION OP PYEETHR
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