THE florists’ chrysanthemum exists in many forms, two of the commonest being normal double and ‘incurved'. In both, the inflorescence consists entirely, or almost entirely, of ligulate flowers ...

The largest mum is one of more than 5,000 in the garden’s annual festival celebrating the fall flower. And while none are as demanding, it still takes 18 months for so many mums to bloom at the ...

Yet New-England has become permeated with the Eastern enthusiasm for the chrysanthemum, and a gardener looks for no prouder triumph than the evolution of a new variety of this peerless November queen.