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Mr. Astie, Rose Marguerite, Mad. 

 Montels, Mrs. F. Smee, Roquelaure, 

 President Morel, Mad. Chalonge, 

 Mad. Carnac, Regulus, Toinette, 

 Antonius, Marguerite de Wildemar. 



Mr. Salter's winter garden is this 

 year as interesting and more attrac- 

 tive than ever. It is here that the 

 lovers of the clirysanthemum meet 

 once a year for a grand feast of 

 flowers, and to make notes and com- 

 parisons of the progress made in this 

 particular branch of floriculture. 

 Apart from the critical points which 

 arise from the inspection of new va- 

 rieties, the general display is the 

 most artistic of the kind ever accom- 

 plished, and the winter garden pre- 

 sents at the present time a grand 

 picture — the result not simply of a 

 brilliant display of colour, but the 

 combination with chrysanthemums of 

 fine conservatory trees and shrubs, 

 and groups of plants with variegated 

 leaves. jVIr. Salter has this year 

 adopted a method of growing chry- 

 santhemums in a much dwarier 

 manner than has yet been done. 

 Some time during the summer he 

 made the discovery (which, doubt- 

 less, many others have also made) 

 that tying up the plants was a great 

 waste of time, and he therefore 

 adopted the following method, to 

 save time : Instead of tjing up the 

 stems, lie bent them down and in- 

 serted a few pegs to keep them close 

 home, and growing round and round 

 the stool. In due time the plants 

 were taken up and potted, and by 

 means of bass the twisted branches 

 are brought round the pot and over 

 the surface, and the result is a squat 

 mass of vegetation of the shape of a 

 common circular hassock. The pot 

 is completely hidden, not a stick is 

 required, and when the flowers open 

 the whole breadth of colour is seen 

 above the green ground-work of the 

 foliage, just as in the best exhibition 

 specimens, but with a thousandth 

 part of the trouble. The number of 

 new seedlings of great merit in Mr. 

 Salter's collection is very consider- 

 able. Our visit was a little too soon, 

 as some of great beauty had not yet 

 been named ; but as the notes we 

 made may be of some service to our 



readers we append them, and com- 

 mence with Prince Alfred, the finest 

 formed flower after Queen of Eng- 

 land, but a sort of Arigena colour, or 

 say lilac-crimson, with whitish reflex. 

 This will be one of the grandest 

 flowers of the race, and admirable 

 for specimens and cut blooms. Ve- 

 nus, larae incurved rosy-lilac, or 

 Alfred Salter colour, and evidently 

 a much more massive and telling 

 flower than Alfred Salter — a real gem 

 among the seedlings. Princess of 

 Wales — this is a very novel colour, 

 and a finely-formed flower ; the colour 

 may be described as transparent 

 pearly-peach, very fresh and clean, 

 and the florets incurving grace- 

 fully ; the flower of full size, on 

 stiff strong wood, and an ample 

 and healthy foliage. Lord Clyde 

 is the most striking of all in colour, 

 and is most appropriately named. 

 It will remind the rose-grower of 

 Messrs. Paul's new rose of the 

 same name, and at exhibitions it will 

 rank with Prince Albert, Lord Pal- 

 merstou, Triomphe du Nord, and 

 others of the high-coloured section, 

 of which the last few years have pro- 

 duced sume very fine examples. Lord 

 Clyde is a strong grower, a large, 

 half-globular flower, broad, incurving 

 florets, colour rich deep crimson, with, 

 white tips. It is one of the best of 

 the series for 186i. Another good 

 novelty is Bernard Palissy, lively 

 reddish-orange tipped with gold. 

 Wonderful Improved is a great ac- 

 quisition in the way of colour, and a 

 decided advance on the qualities of 

 its noble parent. General Baiubrigge, 

 cinnamon, incurved, not a showy, but 

 a very high-toned flower, that will cut 

 well and enjoy a leading place. St. 

 Patrick, an improved Dupont. Sir 

 George Bowyer, yellowish-white, and 

 as we think second-rate, but Mr. 

 Alfred Salter thinks it 7!l 1, and we 

 will leave it to the growers to deter- 

 mine between us. Jupiter, rich red 

 with orange points, a remarkably fine 

 flower in every respect, the form 

 superb, and the colours very striking, 

 equal in its way to a prime bloom of 

 Jupiter Dahlia. Yellow Hermine, 

 good ; Seraph, primrose, deepening 

 to gold at the centre, extra fine; 



