. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM MIDQE. I am sending you a chrysanthemum plant that either is diseased or infested with some sort of insect. What is the trouble, and what is a remedy for it? J. E. K.—Mich. MUM BUDDING DATeS. I am appending a list of names of chrysanthemums and would like to have you write after each name the bud to bo taken on that variety and the date it should be taken. E. N. S.— The table asked for is as follows: Variety. Bud. Date. White crown Sept. 10 Major Bonnaffou. Lute crown or terminal Sept. 10 Robert Halliday. .Crow
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM MIDQE. I am sending you a chrysanthemum plant that either is diseased or infested with some sort of insect. What is the trouble, and what is a remedy for it? J. E. K.—Mich. MUM BUDDING DATeS. I am appending a list of names of chrysanthemums and would like to have you write after each name the bud to bo taken on that variety and the date it should be taken. E. N. S.— The table asked for is as follows: Variety. Bud. Date. White crown Sept. 10 Major Bonnaffou. Lute crown or terminal Sept. 10 Robert Halliday. .Crown August 20 €hieftain Late crown Sept. 10 Early Snow Crown August 15 Early Frost Crown August 15 Harvard Terminal Last bud Tints of Gold Crown August 10 Charles Eager Terminal Sept;. 20 Nagoya Late as possible Dr. Bnguehard., .Terminal, Late as possible Yellow Late as possible Glenvlew Terminal ,.. .Late as possible Chadwiek Terminal Late as possible Hlrondelle Terminal Late as possible There is no arbitrary date at which buds can be taken. In the first place, the buds may not appear at a given date, and in the second, by some manipu- lation the plants can be made to pro- duce later buds than they normally would. The list shows a selection of early to late varieties. Thus Early Frost can be taken early in August and have the blooms in shape to cut bv September 20. Also Tints of Gold. Major Bonnaffon by being grown well, planted early, and a crown bud taken, say, the last days of August, will give fine flowers by the end of October. But, as generally grown, the terminal buds are taken late in September, or later if they will hold back, and the flowers -are marketed for Thanksgiving or later. Some growers do not plant Chadwicks or Nagoyas until late in July, and when so treated the terminal buds are pro- duced late, which is what the cultiva- tor aims at when he plants late. All of which shows the fallacy of trying to set an absolute day as th
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