Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR THE GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 293 The following varieties form a useful group, embracing several types and those famous for their freedom of flowering. Japanese: Clinton Chalfont, golden yellow; Golden Elsie, golden yellow; Lady Selborne, white; Mile. Lacroix, white; Mrs. Chas. E. Shea, light yellow; O. J. Quintus, mauve pinkr; Source d'Or, orange; Yellow Selborne, rich yellow; William Holmes, rich crimson ; John Shrimpton, rich crimson ; Annie Clibran, soft rose pink ; Margot, salmon cerise ; Viviand Morel, silvery pink' ; Mis. Wm. Filkins, yellow, late ; Golden Dart, rich buttercup yellow, late; and Golden Gem, bronze crimson, very late. Incurved: Mrs. Geo. Rundle, white ; George Glenny, straw yellow ; and Golden George Glenny, rich yellow. Anemones : Mrs. Caterer, white ; Mine. Robert Owen, white ; and Fabian de Mediana, lilac and blush. Pompons: William Westlake, yellow; William Kennedy, crimson amaranth; Snowdrop, small, white; Primrose League, small, pale yellow; Sceur Melanie, pure white, early ; and Mile. Elise Dordan, rose pink. Anemone Pompons: Antonius, golden yellow ; Emily Rovvbottom, lovely cream white ; and Marie Stuart, pale lilac. To many the big flowers seen at exhibitions are ugly, almost monstrosities, produced by a system of feeding and stopping. Of course everyone is entitled to his own opinion, and certainly Chrysanthemums are more beautiful when grown simply for the greenhouse to display the truer growth of the plant, which is naturally remarkably free—sprays of blossom, not merely a single flower to one stem. All tLie varieties named in the above list are seen in true character when not severely disbudded. Source d'Or, for example, is a beautiful flower of an orange chestnut colour, and when associated with the rich browns and crimsons of the decaying foliage of many shrubs and trees, its colouring is intensified. Of course decorative varieties are not sufficiently large for exhibition, except in classes especially set apart for them, but those who simply require a gay greenhouse and conservatory in the late autumn know their great value.
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A PATH TO MY LADY'S GARDEN, WRUXTON ABBEY, BANBURY

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