US THE GARDENER. [March 



Yellow Perfection, Golden Nugget, Jardin des Plantes, the best yellow ; 

 Cloth-of-Gold, very fine indeed; and Golden Queen of England, of 

 great size, and one of the earliest to bloom. Of white flowers, Empress 

 of India, extra fine ; Beverley, very early to bloom, and lasts a long 

 time; Mrs George Rundle, a most exquisite flower; Mrs Heale, a 

 very fine flower, but does not close well in the centre ; Mrs Haliburton, 

 Queen of England, and Virgin Queen. Of the anemone-flowered 

 varieties, the two following were very fine — Fleur de Marie, pure 

 white ; and Prince of Anemones, lilac-blush, the first one of the very 

 best in this section. 



The Japanese varieties were Dragon, bronzy salmon ; Red Dragon, 

 reddish chesnut tipped with yellow, very showy ; The Daimio, lilac, 

 becoming tinted with rose as the flowers age ; and Nagasaki Violet, rosy 

 violet, with golden disc. Of Pompone varieties the following were 

 good : Mrs Dix, blush, bordered with rose ; Helene, rosy violet ; Rose 

 Trevenna, rosy blush; Alexander Pele, salmon bronze; Aigle d'Or, 

 canary yellow; and Madame Montels, a pretty anemone - flowered 

 variety, white, with yellow centre. 



Scarcely does any flower so well repay the cultivator as the Chry- 

 santhemum. Just when the summer has passed away, and the trees 

 and hedgerows are shedding their pleasant leafy garb, and the flowers 

 of the garden are laid low, then the Chrysanthemum opens its flowers, 

 and through the autumn months does a cheerful service, the more 

 valuable because it renders it almost alone, having so few floral con- 

 temporaries. That it should be a popular flower is only natural, for 

 in many cottage gardens it can be seen — the last remaining scene of 

 the floral panorama it is the function of spring and summer to present 

 to the admiring eyes of the children of men. Observer. 



ANOTHER CHAPTER FOR AMATEUR HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



What constitutes an amateur horticulturist ? is a question that seems 

 just now to require a definite answer. Many persons are apt to assume 

 that the possession of a garden and the pretence of having performed 

 the labour required in it, however slovenly it may have been done, au- 

 thorises them to assume the designation of an amateur horticulturist, 

 whilst another claim has been made, by a set of people who know 

 nothing whatever of the theory or practice of gardening, to be distin- 

 guished as amateurs, on the ground that they have become members 

 of a horticultural society. This latter claim is certainly very ridicu- 



