THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JUNE 1st, 1833. 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — A new Arrangement of the Donhle-flow- 

 ered Chinese Chrysanthemums, with an improved 

 Method of Cultivation. By A. H. Haavorth, Esq. 

 F.L.S. &c., Author of "Synopsis Plantarum Succu- 

 Icntarnm, Narcissinearum Monographia," &c. 



Sir, — I have the pleasure of sending you, hereunder, a new 

 aiTUJigement of double Chinese Chrysantlieniums for insertion, 

 if you plea-sc, in an early Nmnher of your interesting and useful 

 publication. 



To tlie new, and, I hope, improved location in my distribution 

 of these fine and much favoured plants, are added some brief but 

 characteristic descriptions of their size, time of flowering, and 

 ai)i)eanince of their flowers ; together with an epitomised method 

 of the; management, soil, and cultivation they require. And they 

 are well worthy of all the care and attention we can bestow upon 

 tliem ; being not only at present one of the finest hardy herbaceous 

 gi-oups in the flowei-garden, and remaining with us in bloom by 

 nnich the latest ; but they will hereafter, through the medium of 

 their very sportive seeds, become far more numerous, more \ arious, 

 more beautiful, and more attractive tliaji ever. 



Seven years have jjassed away since any published infonnation 

 ha.s been added to our knowledge of these hardy and conspicuous 

 flowers ; the last account, as far as the writer can find, being that 



