YELLOW CHRYSANTHEMUM
TO XU- EDITOR OF TUB -BK3S. Sis, —In your issue of May 9ck " Amateur" writes referring to two species of chrysanthemum, natives of England. He is quite right in supposing them to have been introduced here, and already the oxey? daisy is a nuisance in grass paddocks. 0. Segetum may be seen in several gardens here. This also is a troublesome Weed whon it gets a footing in corn growing lands. " Amateur" fancies that C Segetum, being a yellow flower, may not the yellow varieties in cultivation be derived - from it. I think it safe to assume that C. Segetum, being an annual plant, there is little chance of it having any influence in producing the yellow in cultivated varieties. Mr Shirley Hibberd, who obtained all the available knowledge on the chrysanthemum, has concluded that from C. Sinensis, a whit* rayed flower capable of sporting to yellow, and by reflective .ports producing all shades of color, and from three wild forms of C. Sinensis, which have been cultivated in China over three thousand years, have resulted all the varieties of the florist's chrysanthemum.—Yours, Ac, John Dcxtok, Florist* May 12th, 1891.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7863, 14 May 1891, Page 3
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