Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-12
fine FLORAL WONDER,
Chrysanthemum Three Feet High
Has Five Hundred Blossoms.
TWENTY FEET in DIAMETER

Private Car Needed to Take Golden
| Beauty Grown at Madison, N. j., to
| Chicago Flower Show-"A World
seater," Declares Gardener Who
Planted It Last February. G
Solomon in all his glory has been out
done by mere chrysanthemum
In the spacious greenhouses OF the
Hamilton Nick. Twombly estate at
Madison, N. j., the naughty japanese
flower was seen arrayed in such gor-
geous attire that even its own little
daisy ancestor would never recognize
this magnificent monarch. 4 Although
only the cream Of chrysanthemum So
ciety has ever been allowed to break
into bloom In the recherche circles Of
| the Twombly hothouses, this year a
| new and more marvellous bud will
make her debut, one that Is destined
to make even the aristocratic and prize
winning dowagers lift up their swelled
heads and marvel, for the debutante
chrysanthemum, though an infant Of
only nine months, has already acquir-
ed 800 blossoms to her slim young stalk
and boasts diameter of twenty feet,
| so that when travelling about on exhi-
| bition she needs must have whole
private car5of her own. ., .;...
To meet this Brobdingnag gian speci-
men face to face New York Evening
| World reporter journeyed out to Madi-
son the other day, and there. surround
ed by an admiring throng of sister
| chrysanthemums, the 500 header stood
| The more the merrier seemed to be the
| motto of this fat young thing, for bulg-
| ing blossoms burst from every availa-
BILE space. Five hundred good sized
golden heads, all gayly nodding ac-
| knowledgment Of the wondering gaze,
| proudly challenged the flower world to
| match their charms with hers.
But none dared come too close to the
naughty though corpulent debutante,
for her burdened branches, stretching
out ten feet on all sides, made admira-
| ton permissible only at long distance.
While this stupendous specimen Of the
japanese flower is the long Of it in
! width, it must be confessed she Is
certainly the short Of it in height, for,
standing in solitary splendor upon a
shelf all her own, she only reaches the
three foot mark when stretching to
her utmost. s
But lack Of inches doesn't disturb the
vanity Of the youthful debutante, for,
lifting her yellow heads to the admir-
ing gaze Of the beholder, she scorn-
fully seems to say to her hothouse
companions, "Bear me If you cam
And there isn't a chrysanthemum
| in the world that can beat this young
beauty" proudly said Arthur Harring-
ton, head gardener of the eighteen
greenhouses which stand on the
TWombley place and who for nine,
months has raised this latest floral
wonder with the tenderness of a fa-
ther. l. III" "a
We planted her last February, Just
a little shoot from one of the other.
chrysanthemums, and she has respond
ed to my care just as if she were a
human being. When we grow more
than one blossom on a branch we
pinch out each little shoot and in that
way start another bud growing, while
with the tall one blossom flower we
train all the stray shoots in. Well, ]
never saw chrysanthemum grow SO.
many shoots as this golden headed one
did. They simply sprouted out by the
hundreds, and every day we'd find a
dozen or more blossoms to greet u.s.
She just started in to beat the record.
and she has certainly succeeded, for
there probably isn't another flower Of
I this kind In the world which can boast
of 800 blossoms.
] She's the pet of the greenhouses,
and there isn't anything fine enough
Tor her, we think. OF course she,ll
have private car when we take her
to the Chicago flower show, for she
couldn't get in with any others, she's
such a size.
| And she isn't a pampered or petted
flower either. This little beauty dilIn,t
need any certain temperature or Other
cares like the orchid or numerous
flowers of delicate constitution. She's
hardy girl with fine sand setting.
and nothing short Of cyclone win
mar her beauty. It's q one best bet
to say she's the finest chrysanthemum
In the world" III 3.
Although the 500 header is the ac-
knowledged beauty Of the place, chrys-
anthemums OF other varieties run her
q close second for wondrous beauty.
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