74 NEW ARRANGEMENT OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



given by Mr. Sabine, in tbe Transactions of ike Horticultural 

 Society, vol. v. p. 322, &c., dated Jan. 1826 ; in which 48 species- 

 or varieties are enumerated, but without any sections, divisions, 

 or subdivisions whatever, and with insufficient attention to their 

 natural affinities ; which renders it very difBcult for any one, and 

 more especially a t}To, to ajTiireciate and understand them suffi- 

 ciently. Wherefore I send you, hereunder, what I conceive to be 

 an imjiroved and more natural aiTangcment of them, nearly as far 

 as known to me ; referring them to, and identifying them with, Mr, 

 Sabine's varieties in every instance, as far as practicable, and like- 

 wise to published figures wherever I have been able to find any. 



I possess, alive, several other reputed varieties ; but these, at 

 present, I refrain from mentioning, hoping to describe them more 

 completely another year, when I may know more about them, and 

 be better able to appreciate their characters. Tliere have also 

 very recently been raised, and flowered, various seedling varieties, 

 which were exhibited at the December meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of London, which were chiefly obtained from seeds 

 of the Early Blush, the Early Crimson, and the Two-coloured 

 Red. These, however, I must abstain from further mention of at 

 present. 



There have been vai-ious methods recommended for the culti- 

 vation and jjropagation of these showy jilants, and that by cuttings 

 in May is now almost universally adopted. But I do not approve 

 of this for strong fibrous-rooted, hardy herbaceous plants with late 

 autumnal blossoms ; for critical time is lost by the delay of stri- 

 king the cuttings ; and, if they are accelerated by heat and glass, 

 they are (more than any other plants) debilitated, weakened, and 

 dwarfed, and often lose their lower leaves by the time their flowers 

 are open, having a faint and sickly appearimce, instead of the vigo- 

 rous growth of such roots, if annually parted and transplanted like 

 perennial asters or other hardy perennial plants. 



I recommend their voracious and very fibrous roots to be parted 

 in autumn, or early spring, and planted in very rich manured 

 light soil, at the foot of a south or west aspectcd wall, with not 

 more than one, two, or three branches from each root, trained to 

 the wall as regularly and as thinly as a peach tree, cutting ofll" all 

 superfluous shoots and weak lateral flower-buds. 



Tliey must, when planted, be watered in ihc usual way, and 



