Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — Centenary of the Chrysanthemum [ARTICLE]

Centenary of the Chrysanthemum

The chrysanthemum first bloomed in England in 1795; next year, therefore, will be the centenary of the actual flower. But it was long neglected by floriculturists, and its serous cultivation only dates back about twenty-five years, when John Newton, gardener to the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, took it in hand. Now the chrysanthemum is all the rage. Yetinail these years the efforts of floriculturists have failed to evolve a satisfactory specimen with hues approaching red. The variety, “G. W. Childs,” named after the. late philanthropist, is described as showing crimson, which is not unpleasingfwnd was raised in America.—[New Orleans Picayune.