This section is from the book "The Flower-Garden; Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers", by Joseph Breck. Also available from Amazon: The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers.
Chrysanthemum coronaria. - Garden Chrysanthemum. - Handsome hardy annuals, one variety with white, and another with yellow flowers; two feet or more high; in bloom from July to October. Sow the seed in April. The double varieties alone are worth cultivation. The fine double varieties are propagated by cutting.
Chrysanthemum cavinatum,, or tricolor. - Tricolored Chrysanthemum. - A hardy annual from Barbary, one and a half or two feet high, in flower from July to October. Disk of the flower purplish-brown, inner circle of the rays yellow, margined with white; very pretty.
 
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