Plate 427. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— PINK PERFECTION 

 AND STELLARIS. 



Strange and fantastic as are the Japanese Chrysanthemums, 

 and possessing, as they unquestionably do, all the charm of 

 novelty, they wiU not, with many persons, ever supersede the 

 older and more symmetrical varieties, so many examples of 

 which we have from year to year figured, and improvement on 

 which seems at times weU nigh impossible. Every now and 

 then, however, flowers of surpassing excellence, either in size 

 or novelty of colour, are reared, showing to us that there is 

 still ground unoccupied to work upon, and in our annual visit 

 to Mr. Salter's Versailles Nursery at Hammersmith, in Novem- 

 ber, we selected the flowers now figured as amongst the most 

 beautiful novelties of the year. 



We have already given a list of some of the best of the 

 Japanese section to be distributed this spring ; we now add a 

 description of some of the best in what is now called the 

 English section. Pink Perfection (fig. 1) is a beautiful, light 

 pmk flower, colour very pure, and form exquisite ; it is considered 

 by Mr. Salter, and we think with justice, to be the premier 

 flower of the year, and has obtained a first-class certificate from 

 the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horticultural Society. 

 Sfellaris is a medium-sized flower, Indian red, with the back of 

 the petals deep orange; this colour, as the flower is deeply 

 incurved, is that which most 25rominentIy shows when the 

 flower fully opens; it is in the style of Cherub, but much 

 better. Orcmffe Annie Salter, a fine bronze sport of the old and 

 much esteemed flower, Annie Salter. Rival Little Harry, 

 a very fine small yellow, of exquisite form, in the style of 



