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Title: The chrysanthemum, its culture for professional growers and amateurs; a practical treatise on its propagation, cultivation, training, raising for exhibition and market, hybridizing, origin and history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Herrington, Arthur
Subjects: Chrysanthemums
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rangedin a semi-spherical, cushion-like center. A few of thebest are: Acquisition, Fleure de Marie, Gladys Spauld-ing, Gluck, Miss Annie Low, Mrs. C. J. Salter, Garzaand Thorpe, Jr. Section 7.—Japanese Anemones. The varieties classified under this head have thesame closely-quilled center as those in the precedingclass, but the flowers are often of great size, and theouter fringe of ray-petals shows much variability inform, length, disposition and arrangement. They mayappear as long drooping threads hanging down severalinches, or be broad and curiously twisted; in fact, thereare in this class some quaintly pretty kinds. Typicalexamples are Beauty of Eynsford, Caledonia, Halcyon,James Weston, Lady Temple, Marcia Jones and Zoraida. Section 8.—Pompon varieties. These are undoubtedly pure lineal descendantsfrom the Chusan Daisies of our forefathers, having thesame dwarf habit of growth, with small leaves and tinyflowers from one to two inches in width. Interest in 144 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM
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Fig. 32—THE ^BABY^ CHRYSANTHEMUM (ROBERTCRAIG) them has in great part been sustained by reason oftheir hardiness, so that they can be cultivated in theopen ground. The flowers of Pompons vary from flatto spherical, having short, erect or reflexing petals. CLASSIFICATION AND SELECTION 145 which, in some varieties, are prettily fringed or toothedat their tips. A great number of varieties exist, ofwhich the following are typical: Alena, Daze. Onita,Vera, La Purite, Globe dOr, Dawn, Little Pet andBaby (Fig. 32). Section 9.—Pompon-Anemones These, as the name indicates, are varieties havingquilled florets in the center and an outer ray of fiatpetals surrounding. The class includes some verypretty kinds, as Astarte, Briolas, Perle, Grace Darling,Mr, Astie and Marie Stuart. Section 10.—Single-flowered varieties These have Daisy-like flowers, a row, or, in somecases, two rows, of petals surrounding the central disc.This large and beautiful class has been unaccount-ably neglected in this

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