Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-21

From the great interest everybody
manifested in the chrysanthemum, we
feel justified in again calling attention
to the unique collection now in bloom
at Evergreen Lodge, and though a
great number has been sold and are
daily being shipped to parties in the
North as we'll as the South, still Sulii-
cent remain to delight every appreci
ative beholder.
Harper's Weekly, the New York
Herald and American Florist are all
at hand, replete with the interesting
details of the great shows of Philadel-
phia and New York. 1t is astonish-
ing the undivided interest now CEN
tered III these beautiful flowers. New
varieties are yearly being raised, and
the old white and yellow, familiar to
our ancestors, has well nigh vanished
from the scene to make room for the
newer varieties of startling colOrs and
erratic formation. At the close of the
New York exhibition all the plants
we're sold for the benefit of the soci-
ETY.. One plant sold for $105, and was
purchased by the "AIikado" company
at Fifth avenue theatre. Other fine
plants were also purchased by this
company and used to decorate the
stage in the garden scene the same
day, which is said to give the stage
ve~y realistic appearance. Such plants
can be bought at the Lodge for 80
cents. A seeding raised by John
Thorpe last year and named President
Cleveland was sent to the White
House, Washington, last week, which
had $50 open flowers. The President
and the ladies were delighted. y cor
dial invitation is extended to all to
visit the Lodge and realize the capti-
waiting charms now to be found in the
hitherto uncared for chrysanthemum
The New York Herald has this to say
of them:
Certainly the most frislSy and volatile of
flowers Is the cilfN san Ileftlntn, as II Il shown
at the summit OF its capacity for variety in
form and color at the exhibition in Hprti-
cultural Hall OF late the chrySan themum
has become fashionable. It has been long
"A favoTite among artists, and probably these
facts have turned the head of the fOmerly
prim little blossom and caused IL 10 assume
the wild eNuberance of spirits which now
cnRracteriZeS il. For the aud1ciOuS and ut
terlV prepOSterouS rambling of the chrySan-
thsmum through the entire gamut of c Dior
il something quite paralyZtug 10 the orii-
nary observer. one finds them of macon,
CUR. old gold, pink, white, brown, every I'M
aginable shade and tint of yellow, down TO
cold, matter-Of-tact white, COlorS that no
other flower wants the chrySantRemum
grecdily ahSorbS. Colors that are the pride,
hope and ambition OF rose, pnusy, tulip,
lily and the reSt--ScaTlet, crimson, blue,
royal purple-are fiOuLed hy the crysanthe
mum, which reioiceS in vagaries OF neutral
tintS charged with the least suspicion of
0 the primary cOlOrS. II is as though the spec
iOuS Hover desired to exhibit the pOSSibtli-
ties of hueS which have hitherto been con-
disposition, the furtheSt possible from the
insidioTs daring Of the willy chrysantlIe-
mum. The ChrOmatic extravaganza which
permits this aggressive plant To perpetrate
tBe floIal anachronism of half a dozen b Os-
SONS OF utterly unheard OF hueS, all differ
ent, calmly projecting themselves from one
mother stem, j. something 80 perfectly ridi-
culouS that only "a gqrdener could cOutem-
plate il with impanity.
2 And as for form, the Ghrysanthemum as
wilderness OF startling surprises. Prom the
stmple, diminuttve, harmless looking OFdi-
I nary chrySan themum of the period To the
Mydusa heal creation of the erfuttc recent
gardener, Is a wonderful and unprecented
stride into the abnormal.
our own BELIEF Is that the chrySanthemum
/ is "A colossal japanese impoSture, spaSmOd-
&c effort OF floral witchcraft which should
be abated in the interest OF morality.