New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-08
THE CHRYS4NTHEMUM.
It's Popularity Not Waning-
Some Fine Examples.

'sChrysanthemums going out Of style? Not a
bit Of IT," said a F1fth-ave florist the other day.
livery fail sees the same old hue and cry raised
over the passing OF the chrysanthemum. but the
fact is selling than
Eighteen dollars a dozen doesn't look as If
Chrysanthemums were suffering frost in popular
favor does It? OF course II is only the extra large
blooms, the of the market. to speak, for
which we ask a big price like that. but Sc to SO a
dozen Is an average price for fine flowers. If chry-
Hanthemums were passe it would probably be hard
10 dispose Of them at 81 dozen
The fact is"-and here he feclled falling leaf
from a stunning Colonel Appleton-"that the chry-
sauthcmum viii be exceedingly hard to displace
from its position floral leader at this season Of
the year. The chrysanthemum season is short-only
about six weeks or two months the utmost-but.
while is supreme for decorative purposes.
Nobody ever carries bouquets Of chrysanthemums.
and men do not wear them for boutonnieres az
they did few years ago refined taste having fixed
ID orchids vioets and gardenas for this purpose
the smaller, choicer flowers. IN word.
'3ut for weddings and balls, for dinner decora-
lions and that sort of thing, the chrysanthemum
Just Ills up a gap.
Although florists make their flowers bloom
about when they like. and give liies-of-the-
valley and volets and roses all ths year round.
Nature sometimes comes TO the fore and asserts
h. laws. she has made the chrysanthemum the
natural early winter flower, and people have almost
got % like il whether they want TO or not just
they have got TO like tuberoses and asters in Sep
TENDER and dahllas IN October. There isn't much
Of anything else to Ike in November except the
rose carnation, etc standard flowers, which we
have always with US"
Yellow is the leading color in chrysanthemums
owing 10 It's inherent briance and sayety and to
tie ease with which it harnonizes with the pre-
vaIling tones Of the autumn foliage-the soft
lronzes and russets, the glowing crirnsons and
EcarIets. the Quaker grays and dun colors.
Pink and white retain all their oldtine charm,
however and are scarcely second to yellow in point
Of popularity.
Leaders in favor are the William Duckham.
large pink flower; Mrs. Perrin pale pink; G. Bran
hail. large whits incurSsd blossom; Colonel APP
pleton large yellow Timothy Eaton, a large stiff.
white flower, and Major Bonffan. a medium sized,
Very compact yellow incurved flower
Every November sees good sale OF potted chrys-
snthemums. People buy these for Horse Show
week and Thanksgiving and put them in their win
6ows, where they bloom and bloom. sometimes for
weeks. Every year sees the sale of potted plants
increasing. according to a smart florist One gets
80 much more for his money in a Towering plant
and the joy Of the thing is so much more enduring
than with the evanescent cut flower. Leonard
Barron Editor Of American Gardening says the
Gay Of fabulous prices for cut flowers is over. For
holiday and complimentary presentation nearly
every one prefers a handsome Towering plant that
will keep It's beauty indefinitely. like azalea
November IS par excellence the month OF the
chrysanthernuu. For thing the chrysanthe-
mum IS the Horse Show flower. For another. New
Yorks annual ChTysanthemum Show takes place
always about the middle Of the month The Chrys-
Gntleuum Show viii this year be held under the
auspices Of the American Institute. at Herald
Square Exhibition Han. November 10 10 II Sunday
eXcepted).
With the chrysanthemUns will be exhibited flow
ers fruits. Seeds bulbs plants, farm crops, nuts
honey, preserved and canned goods. dried stock.
fruit beverages, agricultural and horticultural i'm
Elements and garden tools-in short. il will be the
''seventy-1h bird annual fair" of the American In
stItute.
ehrysant henUn. the lovely flower cultivated by
the Chinese living near the border Of India. but
Centuries ago the Inhabitants Of Nippon adopted ii
for their own From the Orient ii travelled west
Ward. FTen~p and English horticulturists being
lie first TO IMPORT II into Europe
They had brought it to what was then considered
aish OF perfection before it attracted much
attention The hands OF American flower lovers
Although Il was introduced into England as
early 1884 ii is said that 1882 only about forty
varieties were known and these were Chinese