Editorial Comment for this plate:

CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Our pictorial supplement, this week, is an appropriate companion, to “Ferns,” which embellished these columns a few weeks ago. Like its predecessor, this picture comes to us without the artist’s name; and, like it, the work is in every particular worthy of the best photographer. Perhaps the author, reading this, will announce himself (or herself), and tell us just how the photograph was made. It is an example worthy of imitation, and like the group of “Ferns” already referred to, represents a class of work, most satisfactorily accomplished with the camera, which is only too little attempted. (p. 491)