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LEYEQTJE ET FILS. 



Monsieur Furtado. Antoiue Ducher. 



Paul Yerdier. Mdlle. Jeanne Marix. 



Napoleon Third. Gloire de Montplaisir. 



Mdlle. Annie Wood. Madame Anna Buguefc. 



Mdlle. Eleanor Griei-. Eival. 



Madame George Paul. Eose Perfection. 



Eugene Scribe. Alba Carnea. 



Horace Vernet. Monsieur Noman. 



Felix Geuero. Monsieur Cliaix d'est Auge. 



C. Verdier. 



HISTOSY AND CULTIYATION OE THE CHRYSAN- 

 THEMUM. 



BT MK. SAMUEL BROOME, 

 (Gardener to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple). 



|HERE is not in tlie cornucopia of the floral goddess a 

 flower but has its votary, and few that can boast 

 more admirers at the present time than the chry- 

 santhemum ; for no human being not utterly perverted 

 can scorn such flowers, nor can they be offered to the 

 spoiled child of fortune without an implied compliment. It, however, 

 has been said that fashion seldom interferes with nature without 

 diminishing her efiiciency — a statement which certainly cannot be 

 said to relate to the chrysanthemum, for every year advances their 

 symmetry, beauty, and popularity, and makes us acquainted with 

 other improvements through new varieties which were little antici- 

 pated. It would astonish Mr. Colville, were he now living, to see 

 the difterence between them and the stranger beauties which the 

 floricultural world flocked to admire for the first time in his nursery 

 at Chelsea. Such is the effect of human skill and care in improving 

 even the loveliest gifts of nature. 



The number of Mr. Glenny's " Gardener's Gazette " for October, 

 1860, contains a very interesting article on the introduction of the 

 Chinese chrysanthemum into England. The writer says it flowered 

 for the first time in this country at Mr. Colville's nursery, King's 

 Eoad, Chelsea, in November, 1795, in which year the name Chry- 

 santhemum (Golden Elower) was first given to it by Linna3us, 

 who divided them into two species, calling the one with a small 

 flower Indicum, and the other with a large flower Sinensis. But 

 after his time a diversity of opinion arose among botanists as 

 to its proper generic name. Some of them say it belongs to the 

 genus Anthemis. English writers call it Chrysanthemum, except 

 Sweet, who considers it a species of Pyrethrum (Feverfew), and 

 places it under the head of Dendrathema (shrubby kinds). The 

 diiTerences of opinion arise from the small membraneous scales, re- 

 sembling chaff", found on the receptacle of the flowers of the Chinese 

 chrysanthemum at the base of the florets — such being characteristic 



