310 REPORT ON ANNUALS GROWN AT CHISWICK. 



Ghrysantlieniiim. cariuatam. Borridgeanniu. 



Stn: C. tricolor Burridgeanuni . . Vilmorin. 



C. tricolor, Burridge's . . ■ Carter & Co. 

 This proved a very handsome variety when iu its best or true 

 state ; but it was open to the same objection as the next, being 

 wanting in fixity of character. When perfect, the ray florets were 

 white, with a zone of yellow forming a circle around the dark- 

 coloured disk, and next to this on the outer side was a zone of 

 purplish-crimson, forming a second circle exterior to the yellow. 

 It was the most beautiful of the several forms of this showy 

 species, and deserving of every eflfort to render it permanent by 

 careful selection of the seed-bearing plants. 



Stn : C. tricolor vennstum . . . Thompson. 



C. tricolor, Beautiful . . . Carter & Co. 

 The true plants of this variety were of a very pleasing character, 

 but the greater part were sportive and not sufficiently distinct or 

 decided in colour. The ray florets were yellow at the base, 

 forming a ring around the disk, and in the best forms, rosy- 

 purple in the upper part; or they were whitish, more or less 

 stained with rosy-purple : these latter having an indistinct 

 appearance. If the deeper-coloured forms produced more or less 

 freely in every batch of plants can be perpetuated and fixed, this 

 wfll form a very showy border flower. 



Chrysantlienmin coronarium albo-flavuin. 

 Sw : Chrysanthemum white and yelloio . Carter & Co. 

 This resembled the foUowing in habit, but the florets were flatter 

 and less quiUed, and in some plants were wholly yeUow, in others 

 yellow below and creamy-white at the tips. 



ChrysantliemTiiii coronarium albo-plenum. 

 Syn : Chrysanthemum white double-quilled Carter & Co. 



This and the preceding, being free-flowering, strong-growing 

 annuals, were determined to be useful for the ornamentation 

 of large shrubbery borders. They were tall-growing plants, of 

 densely branched habit, and distinguished from the former series 

 (C. carinatum) by having smaUer and more closely-lobed tripin- 

 natifid leaves, the lobes of which were spathulate ; and also by 

 having smaller flower heads, 1^ inch in diameter, of which the 

 involucral scales were not keeled. The ray florets were incurved 

 at the edges so as to be more or less qmlled or tubulose, yellow 



