'mum

plural 'mums

1. alternativeAlternative form of mum (“chrysanthemum”).

   He bought a pot of ’mums, his mother’s favourite flower.

   2014, Marianne Ackerman, Holy Fools + 2 Stories (Essential Prose Series; 116), Oakville, Ont.: Guernica Editions, →ISBN, page 100

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   Large pale blush, single variety excellent in the border and with other ’mums to lend contrast to the darker tones.

   1938, Wayside Gardens, Hardy Plants, Mentor, Oh.: The Wayside Gardens Co., →OCLC, page 18, column 2

   Root disease is the worst enemy to be encountered in growing ’mums. The insect enemies of the ’mum are aphides and red mites which can be controlled by using Black Leaf 40, Vapatone, pyrethrum, cucumber or 12 spotted beetle stomach poison.

   1967, P[aul] A. Renton Jr., H. R. Newcomer, R[o]y C. Bates, Gardening in South Texas, 3rd edition, San Antonio, Tex.: The Naylor Company, published 1969, →LCCN, page 49