The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
NEXT FRIDAYS SHOW
Chrysanthemums Will Be Seen on All
Sides and Everywhere.
DISPLAYED IN MANY CITIES
Flowers In the Yards Of Butte Are
Scare. but the Exhibition Next
Friday Will Be Nothing
Less Than Astonishing.

Butte, Nov. 7.-Butte's chrysan-
themum show will open at the
Auditorium one week from to-day
and will continue three days.
Chrysanthemum shows are being held
in all the big cities of the land now.
Florists all over the country are pay
ing particular attention to chrysanuhe-
NUNS, for they lead all other members
of the floral kingdom at this season OF
the year. Preparations are being made
everywhere for annual exhibitions.
Chicago's great chrysanthemum exhi-
bbtion began last Tuesday, IS prizes be-
ing offered for the best varieties
shown. The exhibition at Chicago is
said to be the finest ever seen in this
country. Tens of thousands of bios
SONS from the most daintily tinted pet
ais to those flaming with bold defiant
colors are seen. The show at Chicago
runs all this week.
The annual chrysanthemum exhibit
tion at Denver is also running this
week, and Is SURPRISING all former eff
forts in that line. In fact, all over the
country chrysanthemums are at their
best and are being shown to the pub
lie.
What can be done anywhere else on
earth can be done right here in Mon
tana, and Butte will have a chrysan-
themum show This year that would be
a credit to any city. Right in the
Rocky Mountains, in a city where no
flowers can grow except within doors,
where plants of all sorts are such
rarity as to be greatly appreciated,
chrysanthemum show on large scale
Is bound to be success. From the
preparations which have been made
there is no doubt that the show exhibit
will be one to delight all. Prizes are
offered for best specimens of all kinds
of flowers, for other favorites will be
on exhibition as well as chrysanthe-
NUNS.
Japan is the mother country of the
chrysa millennium but American florists
have really outstripped the Japanese by
their enterprise and care in the cultiva-
ton of this peculiar flower. The chrys-
anthemum boasts a pre-Adamite age,
having been cultivated by the inhaIb-
itants of both China and Japan from
time immemorial. 1t is the national
flower of the Japanese and is regarded
by them with a wonderful generation
and love. In this country it is cultiva-
ted entirely in greenhouses and in some
cities special houses have been con-
structed for the raising of the chrysan-
themum. When the plant is a few
inches tall II Is transplanted upon
benches in the greenhouse and from
that time until the bloom is ready ito
ship to market, the plant is under the
watohful eye of the mum" expert.
Different varieties require different
treatment. Some are subject to Iblights
that do not affect others. Some. when
in the bud, will be ruined by sunshine,
while others require 1T. Some need one
kind of fertilizer, fumigation and
spraying, while others another entire
ly different sort of treatment, so that
1t is easily apparent that, with a crop
of blooms worth many thousands of
dollars approaching the marketable
stage, mistakes are costly, and eternal
vigilance as well as capable trea tment
is the only road to success.
None of the varieties have more than
one flower to a plant, all the strength
of the root and stalk being reserved
for this blossom. 1t is in this way that
the best results In size and color are
secured. A wonderful feature of
chrysanthemum culture lies in the pos
sibilities and opportunities in produc-
ing entirely new varieties through ex-
perimenting. So extensively is this
business being conducted that each sea-
son has its new candidates for favor,
while other well-known varieties drop
into obscurity in a short space of time.
so eager is the demand for something
entirely new. In all these changes,
however, the same high standard of
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