Clara Curtis is often called an old fashioned mum and I read it has been around for over 50 years.

Are you by any chance thinking of some daisy type mums that come in a mix of fall colors of yellow, orange and rust?

An elderly neighbor has some and she calls them multicolored. She shared with me, but I lost them due to weeds and neglect.

Sue

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Thanks, Sue. No, I have had Clara Curtis and she is nice, but I am thinking of much older plants. There were just a few chrysanthemums grown in the US before the Civil War and those are what I am looking for. One was called Old Purple and several others were small pom-pom types. They bloomed well into the fall, even to Thanksgiving.

My grandparents planted this type of Mum in their garden in the 50's ... A neighbor of theirs pasted away and the new people that moved in didn't want them (maybe they didn't know all that green blooms in the fall!)

Last summer they gave me a couple "spriggs" of it to grow at my house ... this is what they looked like then ...
But now they have spread out alot further and they don't need my help anymore ...

They just call them their "antiques" ~

Tom

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I don't know how appropriate these would be to your area, but the Southern Living Garden Book, 2nd Ed., lists several as "old-fashioned florists' chrysanthemums--all longtime favorites that have survived at old homesites without a gardener in sight." "Try these: 'Ryan's Pink'," "'Emperor of China'," "'Hillside Sheffield' ('Sheffield Pink')," "'Mrs. Hathaway'," "'Single Apricot Korean'," "'Venus'," and "'Virginia's Sunshine'".

Sue

possibly 2 yrs too late but King's mums Clements California

Here is a link that might be useful: king's mums