306 EEPOET ON ANNUALS GKOWN AT CHISWICK. 



XLIX.-EEPOKT ON ANNUALS 



GROWN FOR TRIAL AT ChISWICK : I860. ^ 



Bij TnoMAS Moore, ¥.L.S.,'F.Il.'S>., Secretary to ihcFlwal Committee. 

 The experimental trials of annual flowers made during the past 

 summer at the Garden at Chiswick, have doubtless, like those of 

 other plants, been influenced in some degree by the unpropitious 

 nature of the season, and therefore the opinions pronounced on 

 the respective subjects may not be regarded as altogether final. 

 Nevertheless, it was found that the majority of the plants belong- 

 ing to this class acquired a very fair state of development, and 

 some may even have preferred the moisture and comparative 

 coolness which were prevalent, to the more heated and parching 

 conditions of soil and climate which are the concomitants of 

 ordinary summer weather. 



The observations embodied in this Report were made from time 

 to time during the summer, the plants having been examined by 

 the Committee, as they reached the flowering state. 



am ... Van Houtte. 



This pretty Swan River Everlasting, raised in gentle heat, and 

 afterwards planted out, came into flower early, and continued for 

 a considerable period in blossom. It grew about a foot or rather 

 more in height, forming a tuft of erect stems, which were un- 

 branched, bearing narrow leaves, and each terminated by a single 

 showy flower-head, which in most cases was pink becoming paler 

 in age, but was sometimes white, the centre or disk always yellow, 

 and the ray of coloured involucral scales, somewhat dry and 

 membranous in texture, like what are known as Everlasting 

 flowers. It proved to be a distinct and pretty border plant, for 

 early summer flowering. 



Ageratmn mexieannm albnm . . Carter & Co. 



A very unattractive plant, the flower-heads of a dirty white. 



Ageratum mexieanum nannm . . . Thompson. 

 A good dwarf variety of Ageratum, with a diffusely branched 

 habit, the leaves almost deltoid in outline, coarsely-toothed, and 



