Plate 422. 



JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, DR. JAMES 

 SALTER AND HERO OF MAGDALA. 



We can well understand any one who had not seen anything 

 of the remarkable varieties of Japanese origin, looking at tliese 

 strange-looking flowers, exclaiming, What can these tilings be ] 

 are they really flowers, or only some whimsical fancy of the 

 artist 1 But in very truth they are exact representations of two 

 of the remarkable series of the hybrid varieties which Mr. Salter 

 has been engaged in producing from the Japanese fiowers intro- 

 duced some years ago by Mr. Fortune, disregarded at that time 

 by many, but containing, as we believed them to do, the 

 elements of much future progress ; and this they have done far 

 beyond anything that one could have imagined in so short a 

 time. 



We had the opportunity of seeing Mr. Salter's collection in 

 November, and, in addition to the flowers now figured, we 

 noticed Dr. Masters, a large and fine flower, bronze-red with 

 yellow tips and centre ; G. F. Wilson., dark golden-yellow ; 

 Purpurea alha, rich purple, spotted and tipped with white ; 

 Meteor, bright orange ; Begalia, fiery-red orange ; the Mohtdo, 

 very large and long orange-yellow petals ; whilst Bed Dragon, 

 Ameniium, Leopard, Wizai'd, and others of last season, were 

 remarkably fine ; the two which we have selected, however, 

 seemed the finest we had yet seen. Fig. 1 . Dr. James Salter, 

 is a flower of remarkable character, the petals being very broad 

 and of a rosy-lilac colour, but without the slightest regularity of 

 outline, the petals being thrown together in the most confused 

 manner, more resembling masses of cut paper than flowers. 



