The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-14
A CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN.
Private Greenhouses Which Contain
Thousands of Flowers.
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Boston Transcript.

Attractive as may be the displays of
chrysanthemums to be seen at the flower
shows, TO see them at their best they must
houses. 1t was for this purpose that the
garden committee of the Massachusetts
horticultural Society. CONSISTING. of Patrick
Browditch, Charles N. Bracket, e. w.
Wood, f. Woodford Manning and James
P. Cheney, at Wellesley, last Saturday en-
der the leadership of John Barr, for thirteen
years head gardener of this magnificent es-
tate, they were conducted around he place
between well-trimmed hedges, over thirty
acres of velvety lawns, and miles Of pleas
ant walks and drives, to greenhouses which
contain thousands of splendid chrysanthe-
mum blossoms. In one of these houses, more
than one hundred feet long, are rows upon
rows of chrysanthemums in full bloom,
single flower on one stem, some OF the
plants being more than eight feet in eight,
with foliage running all down the stem to
the rich earth N which they are painted
To look over this great collection cf eight
hundred blossoms is pleasure To the f1OW-
er-lover. Here at hand are the large yellow
blossoms named the Gladys EanGel hiit
softened down by a row Of white Minerva
blossoms. Beyond is the pink Tulinda, Which
shades beautifully into the Shrimpton. with
its wine-colored heads. One of the most at
tractiVe varieties in the collection IS the
Mrs JerDmesJones, which YVES developer by
the late Mr.. Cane and named in honor CT
his daughter. This IS one OF the faVcrl- e
varieties and has held its own in favor
while many new varieties have been ccvel-
oped It is Of what is sonnet: mes 81 known S Az as
curved white petals bearing delicate
fringe. Beyond this whole bank of Golden
bloom, the Colonel Smith, the Major Eoni-
FAINT, Modesto and otnar varieties These
shade into the Philadelphia, 4 demon col
ored variety, soft as fleece, and this IN tllln
mergeS into the cream color OF she May
flower. After the Georgiana "amhaIi a
paler yellow, come white varieties. the Mrs
Peabody, tall plant with perfect foliage;
the Robinson, and the faVorite INITIAL
Friend, a giant III size of blossom, with
row of the Mrs. Perrin, a pink variety,
forming an agrea lb'e ontrast. In this one
greenhouses are more THAN fifty VII, Ieties Of
chrysanthenums, arranged with artlsuc
skill, giving the effect vi spectrum waves
of color
The production of such marvellous speci-
mems is the highest art of the gardener; To
produce a single perfect blossom on plant
requires constant care. All attempts at
branching growth must be checked. All
the shoots at the bottom of the plant must
be taken out, regardless of their possible
value in the production of new and Valu-
able varieties. Everything tends toward the
production of a single blossom on the plant.
Surely the results achieved in this particu-
lar greenhouse justify the care.
But for the production of the bush varie-
ty another kind of treatment is needed.
Every shoot of the spreading plant is
traineu to grow upon stick, ana the re-
suit is symmetrical, evenly developed
plant covered with blossoms sometimes as
many as a hundred flowers making one
plant a glowing mass of color. In another
greenhouse Mr.. Barr has arranged these
dwarfed plants, dwarfed only as compared
with the tall plants bearing only single
flower, however. Here the effect is kalei-
doscopic, and the rich colors stand out
sharply from background of deep green
ferns. which are grown in semi-tropical
luxuriance. The Miss Agnes Dalscow,
great chrysanthemum with ivory pink
blossoms, has an influence beyond it's own
limited box of earth, for one of the other
plants bears a single ivory blossom in its
mass of crimson, sport" from the parent
plant Here the Ivory, the Minerva, the
Mutual Friend and other kinds are grown
in large masses so different from the
plants with a single blossom that no one
but the expert could believe that the plant
was the same. Here, TOO. are odd combina-
tons of color; the Fishers Torch a ma
room variety the Silver Cloud, with a yell
low CENTER the Bard, dark crimson, and
the Cara, white chrySanthemum which
grows in the shape of an anemone Some
chrysanthemums are grown for their gas
light beauty. Among these are the Column
bine. yellowish-hued flower most beauti-
full in the evening, and the Iowa, pink
variety with delicately fringed petals All
these flowers are seen at their best here,
for the projection of growth, whether in
single blossoms or in the bush varieties, is
marvellous. Indeed, so luxurious is the
growth of everything in the greenhouse
that, as one of the members facetiously
observed even the greenhouse cat is
dOublo-tOed