Excellent Display of Locally Produced Blooms The fact that the chrysanthemum both a native of China -and an autumn flower, added to the diligent efforts of the Shanghai Horticultural Society, made of the annual chryganthemum: show in the Winter Garden and the Italian Garden of the Majestic Hotel on November 13, a brilliant and lovely success. Every variety and colour this" flower, from the small-flowered pompon, which ~incidentally is the original source for every "type Of the species, to the " grotesque-flowered Japanese sort, was. present, Severe, neat Tooking flawers "prevailed for the most part, set with. precision in patterned tubs, saved from overwhelming similarity only by. their many shades of colour. Purple and red, striped yellow and silver, mauve and pale gold, and the ever glitter: ing white, made of the large rooms a shimmering wave of. brilliance. Delightfully infrequent anemone-flowered kinds, with long ray petals Tike dangling ear-rings, and short, brisk disk petals, appeared every now and then. And ferns of every Varioty made their usual indispensable contribution, There were other flowers, besides the chrysanthemum, displayed although they tended' to become de-Corative features while the "mums" held the spotlight. ' Begonias and actus, carnations in red and pink and yellow, verbena, poppies, four haughty and fragile' orchids," roses red and flowering shrubs, and even tobacco, lined themselves' along the wally and walks and covered the screens and pillars.
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