The morning times., 1895-11-10

| Make way for the queen of autumn.
| The white, golden. and pink chr hrysanthemum
has arrived and VIII soon be the flower OF
| the rage. You have seen them SO far only
| as biazes OF white and yellow In the tall
SHOW windows OF the florists, where they
| monopoiiZe the space, and, perhaps, you
| have seen them at one or two of the swell
| banquets of the season recently.
1t viii not be many days before you win
| see them in every buttOnhole, and viii
| continue to see them there OF all shades
ana sizes according to the loudness OF
ones taste or the length OF ones purse, until
| the sweet violet, which is now in the
nursery, is big enough to get around by
| Itself and perfume the city.
As everybody knows, the ehrysanthemum
! is fad. 1t is only a weed of Japan"
which has been cultivated and idealized
| into the glory of the hothouses. 1t came
| into vogue and fashion about eight or ten
years ago; Just about the time that the
transcendentais went crazy over the peach
| Dlow vases, and aestheticism went stark
raVlng mad over the most volatile ideas
and suggestions.
or course everybody also knows that
the High Priest, the Melchisedech of this
madness and moonshine sentiment, is
| now in jail in England, rejecting over
the subtieties of some of his notions and
cooling his morals with perhaps Lady
Windermeres Fan"
NOBODY knows how or when the chrys-
antheInum got into this country. Maybe
IL came over in rice seeds. and like some
or the ptstilent grasses of Europe spread
over the country, or like the Spanish
horses whose descendants are now run
ming wild over the Western plains, or
like the descendants Of Huguenots, PurI-
tans and Cavaliers who crowd the cities
and the country.
LAVISHED MICH ATTENION
1t is only certain that about the beginning
of the last decade florists began TO paw
great attention to the growth and develop
ihent OF this beautiful flower. Then pri-
Vate gardeners took them up, and there was
as much attention iavished on them as
there was III the human babies in the nur-
series Eight years ago the rage became
line by degrees and beautifully less, but
there is nothing to show now that there is
not what might be called a revival.
III IS only possible to know what can be
done with the recreation of this flower by
going into one OF the big florists estab-
lishments OF this city and eompa ring the new
flowers with the order that we ali remem-
Der growing in the front yards OF ten years
ago, and in the little flower patches around
country houses The flowers of long ago
were what dwarfs and hunchbacks are to
the human race, both in size and beauty.
The first flower that came to this country
was probably the little yellow one, which
Is called Gioriosum, and 1t Is likely that the
whole genus got its name from this one,
as it is OF the gold color, and Greek scholars
know that chrysanthemum is the Greek
word for golden flower. The original
GlorioSum was the weed flower OF Japan"
IL and itsvarious species a re not really hot
house flowers, but it is only possible to
make them rare beauties by keeping them
out of the wind and the rain. both OF which
are Its enemies.7 Phese elements blow or
dash them to pieces and besides they are
susceptible to frost, which retaris the
growth and stunts them.
The most familiar chrysanthemum is the
little white one which goes under the
pretty name of Ivory" 1t is the one that
is used for buttonholes, and besides makes
a very pretty show in clusters.
In this climate the chrysa nthemum be
gins to bloom from the 1st to the 9th OF
October, and IL gradually increases In
beauty and style until about the 10th to
the 25th of November, when It is the queen
regnaut. The very largest In this country
are the Mrs. Craig Lippincott' and the
philadelphia" which is the new one in
troduced last year. The Mrs. Craig Lip
pincott' Is a decided pink. and has been
grown to the enormous size of fourteen
inches in diameter, which gives super
ficies of $50 square inches. When well
from five to six feet in height, and is con-
sidered rather a graceful flower.
NAMES OF THE FLOWER.