Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-29
ABOUT THE CHRYsANTHEMUM.
How Gardeners Have Developed This Much
Priced FIower-The Show Next Tuesday
Expected to be Great Success-Points
About the Flower.

Priced Flower-The Show Next Tuesday
Expected to be a Great Success-Points
About the Flower.
Interest is increasing in the chrysanthe-
mum with the approached the flower show.
1t is always n flower worth studying, but adj
ditionally so since we expect soon to see
some of its choicest varieties. Possibly
Superintendent Hamilton, of the Allegheny
Parks knows as much as any man about the
chrysanthemum The credit belongs to him
of having brought into the world some of
the rarest of seedlings. Several
of his particular pets will be displayed at
the auditorium on Tuesday next.
Going up the River of Time to its source,
you find the composite order TO which the
cnrysanthemum, the dahl1a ana the rose
Delong, sImplified and quite unlike what IL
now IS The little cup-shaped rose OF the
neId was not unlike the rose OF Eden. II
Adam bethought himself to pluck bouquet
OF fchrysanthemums for Eve of a morning, 1t
WAS very different flower he presented her
with 10 what 1t now is. 1t was not unlike
the sunfiower. with its yellow disk and
single row of petals, which used to do serv-
Ice ms food for chickens before Oscar Wilde
discovered It's merit rs parlor ornament.
Liked by the Japanese.
Adam and the cbrysanthemum, however,
parted so early in their acquaintance that
he must have left it much as he found it.
of the beautiful which is as much part of
them as their appetite for rice, took liking
to it. Long ago. nobody knows how long,
they made the chrySanthemum the national
buttonhole bouquet. When we English
speaking people saw this queen of the gar
den we fell i'll love with her, and carried her
across the ocean. To-day the captive
pervades the land. As its gardener
Mr. Hamilton knows something of its
beauties, frailties ana coyness. Since,
through propagation and cultivation, it has
taken to wearing more petals, the number
of seeds it produces is lessening. Something
like a woman who. as she grows fonder of
dress loses the little brains with which she
started in this world. The chrysanthemum
grows bigger and bigger, its colors, their
shades and gradations OF shades the more
numerous until finally it is barely possible
to obtain a single seed. Cutting or rootlings
arc its only salvation, else it dies off the face
of the earth.
1t seems likely, too, that the chrysanthe-
mum must be under the ban of original sin,
for it displays a tendency to 20 in
the broad way. Mr.. Hamilton says that if
semi-double flower and leave them to
their own sweet wills, some bright morning
you will find very insignificant flower in
their place.
Preyed Upon by Fly.
These may be the fittest to survive, but it
is not the survival of the fittest. A large fly,
that looks like bee, is sort of a hanger-on
what Julien Gordon, when she finds SINH
lar case in the human race, facetiously terms
"The little brother of the rich" This fellow
gives the gardener any amount OF trouble,
and is voted above accordingly. He flies
h1ther and thlther among the chrysan-
themums when they are in bloom-a poor re-
lation never bothers you unless you are
fiuSh
little stomach s full of honey and his face
covered with pollen. Nobody would mind
him taking the honey if he would let the
pollen alone. But he mixes the pollen here
and there, destroys the varieties so that the
mother chrysan themum couldn't swear to
her own offspring. The gardener has to tie
up his pet seedlings in gauze and the fly
either goes to its garnet and starves OF else
hunts employment elsewhere.
A Great Show Expected.
1t is needless to say that the chrysanthe-
mum show which opens in tile Auditorium
on Penn avenue on Tuesday, Novem-
Der TO- and continues until Thursday,
November II, will be largely attended.
The regulation prizes for fine flowers
are numerous and will appear in the cata-
logue issued on the opening day. But in ad-
dition a number of prominent people and
firms are Offering splendid prizes, which
will be eagerly competed for by the various
exhibitors
At a committee meeting yesterday evening
in n. Patterson's on Sixth avenue, the COM
Dlete list of extra prizes was arranged. Some
of the contributors to the prize list selected
the nature of the competition, while others
were satisfied to put the matter in the hands
of the committee. The completes list of
prizes is as follows:
First day-E. P. Roberts. handsome vase
for the best handled basket of chrysanthe-
NUNS; w. w. Wattles vase for best display
of orchids in bloom: Joseph Horne & Co., S25
for most artistic display of cut orchids; Paul
arranged fat oval basket Of flowers.
Mr.. Hacke's present will be one
of the most beautiful, as the vase is a rare
one picked up during his European travels.
Miss Mary MontOoth will give SO for the
prettiest box of flowers.
Second day-John Dimling, 800 for dining
room decoration, which will continue
the third day; Hardy j. Hays, hand
some vase for most beautiful arrangement of
vase of long-stemmed yellow chrysan-
themums: Eicllbaum, set of account books
for vase of chrysanthemums of three Uarie-
ties.
Third day-A number of Lawrenceville
people will give a "Lawrenceville Cup"
best bridal set. consisting of brides bouquet,
two bridemaids' bouquets, boutonniere for
bride and two boutonniere for groomsmen.
George W. Biggs, vase for handsomely ar
ranged vase of long -stemmed roses: Ley and
Geiselhure $40 in money for handsoueSt
wreath; John Sauer, S25 for fiat oval basket
of chrysanthemums.
Smith, chairman, B. /. Elliott, r. G. Patter-
son. j. B. Murdoch. James DELL John Her
ron, Julius Ludwig, John Baden. n. Pat
terson.
Social Chatter.
SATURDAY there will be q Convention of
Chidren's and Young Peoples Missionary