The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-11-07
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
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ALL THE RAGE EyERYwHERE.

beauty and variegated in its colcr.
Marietta ladies and many gentlemen
are great lovers of ithis flower, and
its cultivation is largely INDUCED in.
The admiration for this flower has
eliminated In chrysanthemum
fair in Atlanta, held on Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week. One
of the greatest lovers of chrysanthe-
NUNS in Marietta is Ms. w. HI.
Trezvant. He has over 100 varieties
and nearly every morning can be
seen with bouquet of them in his
hand as he journeys to Atlanta to
his business.
The rage for this flower is about
to become national, in this country
as it is really the national flower of
Japan and China. 1t is used in
decorating the table at dinner or
luncheon in fashionable circles.
The cultivation OF the chrysanthe-
mum began in England about the
middle Of the eighteenth century.
1t was brought from China. but
through some accident it's proapga-
ton was lost, and it was not till
near the beginning of this century
that any new attempts were made
to introduce it into this country.
There were then some eight or ten
varieties, simple, undeveloped, and
far from being the lovely flower that
We have to-day. Patience, care and
keen observation from year to year
SO developed and improved the
plant that to-day nearly 5000 varie-
ties are known to the florist. fasi
The shape of the full blown
flower, of its corola and petals, says
Prof. Guien, enables the nurseyman
to classify and arrange the species
Systematically. Thus we have the
tall plants, with large, wide, wavy
like petals, the petals as they reach
the centre becoming incurved and
again the fat, strip like fowerets cs
they reach downward to the heart,
becoming a coherent, cup shaped,
and separate petal. Then there are
the recurved or refexed, which bend
backward from the center; the dwarf
with their quilted, involute tube, a
peculiarly In many of which is the
alternate strap and cup petal.
Finally, there is the anemone chrys-
anthemum, with a centre like q
small cushion or button, surrounded
by rows or rather rays, of small
flowerets. These chysanthemums,
as the name indicate, are really
miniature sunfowers, which, foster
ed by the gardeners care have de-
veloped into such beautiful plants.
1t seems incredible that most of
our chrysanthemums should have
originated from single, daisy like
flower, first brought from Chusan,
an island on the east coast OF China.
1t is only the patience of years and
constant study which could have
produced such a flower as ''La
Neige," a splendid and pure white
species. The LADY Slade" is an
other beauty, and the "Mrs. Hall
burton" the beautifully incurved,
slightly quilted flowerets, with a
deep rich bloom of primrose white
color. Many flower has its petals
so slightly curved at it's tip that it
is wonder how ever Mother Nature
could have brought it about. But
it searched still further with the
microscope, still more wonderful
secrets will be discovered. The
japanese variety of this flower
strikes one by it's oddities, its fam
tastic shape and strikes its spotted
petals with many fringes as delicate
as those OF the blue gentian or pink
haberneria. They date from a
much later introduction than the
Chinese, and to. day prove more at
tractive to the general public than
its older competitor.
1t is hardy flower and deserves
the boundIess popularity it has won
by sheer merit.