CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 13

CHRYSANTHEMUMS

JAPANESE VARIETIES. The following is a reliable list of varieties of Japanese chrysanthemums to grow for exhibition, with brief descriptions. All are of proved merit: — Autumn Tints, rosy salmon buff, cream reverse, splendid; Annie Hamilton, beautiful pure white, a relined full flower; Bessie Cook, large pink silvery reverse, an ideal show flower; Berta, crimson, with gold reverse, the best of its colour; Edith Cavell, light chestnut, gold reverse, one of the best; Florence, delicate pale pink, incurved, distinct; F. S. Vallis, canary yellow’, always reliable; Gallipoli, large mauve pink, splendid exhibition flower; Golden Champion, beautiful golden yellow, very large; J. H. Perry, purple amaranth, silvery reverse; J. S. Lloyd, primrose sport of Wm. Turner, extra good; Kara Dow, chestnut, with gold reverse, distinct; Louisa Pockett, the largest and best pure white, splendid; Lancashire, large rich yellow, a splendid novelty; Majestic, golden amber, a beautiful colour; Mrs. A. J. Witcher, pale heliotrope; Mrs. R. C. Pulling, very large yellow, one of the very best; Mrs. E. Alston, a pure yellow sport from Autumn Tints, extra fine; Mrs. A. Luxford, Indian red, gold reverse; Pink Pockett, ping with silvery reverse, the best pink; Pockett’s Crimson, deep crimson, a glorious colour; Reginald Vallis, purple amaranth, always good; Rose Day, beautiful pink of the largest size; Sir William Brunton, splendid dark crimson, gold reverse; Stephen Brown, salmon with old gold reverse; very large; The Melba, creamy yellow of exceptional beauty; William Turner, incurving, pure white, of enormous size; Renown, rich dark crimson, gold reverse; Vera Callender, old gold deepening to bronze, incurving, splendid for exhibition, a new variety.