Evening star., 1924-10-30
CHRYSANTHEMUMS
GET NURSES NAMES
New Blooms Called for Doe
+. tor and Aides Who At
tended Wallace.

Four of the most beautiful of the
new big Japanese chrysanthemums
produced by the expert growers in
the Department of Agriculture green
houses, on exhibition for the first time
in the oath annual chrysanthemum
show, which opened yesterday. have
been named for the doctor and three
nurses who attended Secretary Wal
lace in his fatal illness.
At the solicitation Of Mrs. Wallace,
who has for the last three years taken
a great interest in the chrysanthemum
show and in naming the new varie-
ties, DR.. William A. Taylor, chief of
the Bureau of Plant Industry, who is
In charge of the greenhouses. per-
Sonally selected the best of the new
blooms.
The Doctor Boone" is considered
one of the best ever produced by the
department, and is one in which the
commercial growers have taken a
great interest 1t is of distinctive
formation of pinard yellow and jasper
pink.
Nurses HonOred.
The three named for the nurses are:
Emile Cunningham" pale greensh
yellow, shading to white: the Helen
Lord" outside pale yellow and inside
white, with fine purple stripes on the
outer edge of the petals.
Three of the best of the new POM
pom varieties were also named by DR..
Taylor-'Leonore Ash" Daphne red
over white; the Lee Loveland," a
light bronze. and Helen Compton"
Pickwick yellow, opening white.
Crowds f1ocked to the show today
and there was waiting line even be-
for hnI RI RI
long the equipages of foreign diplo-
mats, members of the ecabinet and
others prominent in official life con-
tinued to drive up to the green
houses. The general public brushed
shoulders with the leaders in affairs
of state and social life as they bent
in common admiration of the riot OF
coloring and monster blooms.
L. S. Workers See Show.
Employees of the Department of Ag-
riculture and of the Internal Revenue
Offices and the War and Navy depart
ments which are nearest to the green.
house tlocked in by the hundreds dur
ing their lunch hour so that the show
has had an unusually large attend
ance today.
The general comment is that the
show is 1.-The best ever" Some of the
such as the Adjuana. His Majesty
Grace Coolidge, Mrs. Woodrow Will
son, Hon. James r. Mann, Bol Dor
Vermont, Anola Wright, General Per.
shing, Smiths Sensation, Queen Mary
etc.
A novelty attempted in the show
this year is the grouping of some
blooms of similar coloring in blocks
but the visitors did not particularly
approve of this iDDoyation
Stalks Are Shorter.
The stalks Of the Japanese bloom.
are shorter this year than previously
and this made it possible for the Wis.
itors to get a better view of the
varied shapes and coloring.
AS usual, the crowd attending the
show is taking fully as much inter.
est in the small pompon and single
varieties maSsed on benches at the
sides of the exhibition house as they
are in the monster Japanese blooms
Tomorrow is to be Society day
and Walter Reed day at the show
Many society women are planning tc
bring the crippled soldiers from Wal.
ter Reed in their automobiles to ge
look in at the show.
Saturday all the school children o.
the city are invited to be DR.. Taylor:
guests. In many schools the teach
ers are arranging to take charge O.
large groups of children so parents
need have no worry about them.
The British post office, which con.
trolls the telephone systems of Great
Britain, has begun the substitution
of automatic telephones for the
present equipment.