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HORTICULTURE 



November 24, 1906 



of a light green color. We cannot make it grow here. 

 From Japan we have P. Ajanensis and Alcockiana often 

 taken for one another. Alcockiana is well known. It 



PiCEA A.IANENlSI.S 



is a nice ornamental tree. Ajanensis has the needles 

 more flat and darker green, which makes tlie hlue color 

 on the underside more apparent ; it is also of a more 

 compact growth. 



P. Glehnii from northern Japan is also like Alcock- 

 iana. The needles are longer and lighter green and it 

 is a smaller, more compact tree. It is one of those 

 spruces that start early in the spring and the young 

 shoots are often damaged by late frost. 



P. polita, tiger tail spruce, is a very distinct tree 

 and worthy of one of the best places on the lawn. The 

 branches are not crowded. The needles, which grow all 

 round the shoots are very rigid, long, thick, and sharp 

 pointed. The buds are big and apparent; they make 

 their growth late in the season. It is a handsome tree 

 which ought to be in every collection. 



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New French Chrysanthemums 



The Floral Committee at the Paris Show had a very 

 big job on hand for there was an immense number of 

 new seedlings submitted for adjudication, all the well- 

 known growers being well in the field. This part of the 

 business was done the day before the opening of the 

 show and instead of the committee sitting round a 

 table and having the novelties brought to them as is 

 customary at English floral meetings the members had 

 to walk all over the place in a little crowd to find what 

 thfiy wanted in the different collections. 



M. Aug. Nonin was first in the list with seventeen 



certificates of merit. Then came the Marquis de Pins 

 with fourteen. M. Alfa Chautrier had twelve. The 

 eminent grower, M. Ernest Calvat was awarded eleven. 

 ^I. Decault followed with ten. M. Dolbois, an ama- 

 teur, was awarded eight. M. Montigny, M. Durand 

 and Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co. each received 

 five and the other exhibitors fewer. 



It is a difficult thing to prophesy as to the behavior 

 of European varieties in America but on the spot the 

 following were certainly the most promising. In 

 Xonin's group Amateur P. des Cognets is of Japanese 

 incurved form, big and solid broad florets, grooved, 

 color deep rich yellow shaded amber. Globe Blanc is 

 a very globular flower compact in build, florets pointed, 

 color pure white, faintly tinted green. George Kobert, 

 a large Japanese, color pure pale yellow tinted rosy 

 purple. Mme. Abel Chatenay, a closely built Japanese 

 with very long florets, color pure white slightly tinted 

 green. Le Gaulois is a decorative sort, very bright 

 velvety crimson, reverse rich golden yellow. M. Nonin 

 had five other decorative kinds certificated. 



Tlie Marquis de Pins' best varieties were Mme. Le 

 Saulnier de la Tour, a rosy amaranth Japanese with 

 silvery reverse, a l)ig solid flower with broad florets, 

 iliiic. Bougerc, also a large Jap, rather broad florets, 

 color dull rose on a white ground tinted green at the 

 tips. Comtesse Alice de Lancv, very large Jap, rather 

 flat but broad florets, color pale lilac-rosy pink. La 

 'i'onkinoise, the largest of all, a big spreading Jap, 

 color bright rosy amaranth, reverse silver. Mile. Gache, 

 a difficult color to describe, a kind of bufi tinted cream 

 in the centre. La Dame Blanche; this is a fine white 

 .Jap with long drooping broad florets. 



.\s to Wm. Chautrier's seedlings we can only say 

 that they were not exhibited in the highest possible 

 state of development and therefore it is difficult to 

 appraise their value. Alphonse XIII was not bad; it 

 is a big bloom, close and compact. Prefet Lepine is a 

 large spreading flower of good size, a Jap with narrow 

 florets. St. Fereol and Mme. G. Havre were two others. 

 M. Calvat showed Algesiras, a very large reddish 

 crimson with long drooping florets reverse golden. 

 .\lso Touring Club with narrow grooved florets, a close 

 built flower and very massive, color orange amber. Mr. 

 Paul Eandet, a large Jap; creamy white, narrow 

 twisted florets curley in tint. Mme. de la Kocheterie 

 has big blooms, grooved incurving florets, color white, 

 slightly tinted cream. S. A. Naceur Bey, President 

 Dubost, President Fallieres, Mme. Leon Truelle were 

 others. 



Messrs. Vilmorin's certificates were for decorative 

 varieties and as to those exhibited and certificated from 

 other sources it hardly seemed worth while to do so as 

 those mentioned are probably by far the best out of the 

 lot. 



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