80 NEW ARRANGEMENT OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



37. The Late Quilled Yellow, Ilort. Trans, v. 6. p. 3 )3. This lias been called 

 a very lute and nut very desirable variety in collections. It appears to 

 be of the middle size, but it has not yet 0])ened its blossom buds with 

 me, not having long possessed it. 



38. The Large Lilac, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 343. and v. 5. p. 420. Also called 

 the Late Lilac, the New Lilac, and the Semidonble Purple. A very tall 

 upright plant, bearing but few double large and clustered flowers at the 

 summits of the branches, and those so late in appearance, that iu cold 

 seasons they cannot expand well, and are consequently iu but little repute. 

 I have only .seen one plant in blossom, and that in my own garden. 



39. 2Vie 7<?ss</W Z,(7rtc, Hort. Trans. V. 6. p. 332. A middle-sized, or rather 

 tall, plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most desirable of the 

 whole group, having very showy tassel-formed flowers, five inches or more 

 in expanse, very nume.ous, early, and elegantly drooping fiom their 

 weight, but the)' often show a disk. It is a likely variety to produce seeds 

 of the most promising kind, but I have not hitherto heard of its ripening 

 any in England. 



40. ThcTasscled Purple; The Purple, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 3.34. Has also 

 been called the Old Purple, the Old fled, and the Quilled Purjjle, and is 

 figured in the Bot. Mag. tab. 327. 'Ihis is a very beautiful and rather 

 early- flowering plant, of almost the middle size. 'I'he flowers are very 

 numerous, gracefully drooping, and of middling size, and are at first of 

 reddish purple colour, but become paler by age, and in mild seasons will 

 continue in succession from the end of October to the second week in 

 January. It acquires the name of Old from being the first China chry- 

 santhemum that came to England in modern limes, and bloomed at Mr. 

 CorviLL's nursery, in Nov. 1795, but was said to be at Kew in 1790. — 

 The great horticulturist Miller, certainly had one, or more likely txvo, 

 of the Chinese, or Indian, chrysanthemums, in cultivation at Chelsea 

 long before; but it is not yet quite satisfactorily explained what sorts 

 they were. See Hort. Trans, v. 4. tab. 12. p. 326, and following. 



41. The Changeable Tasseled White; The Changeable White, Hort. Trans. 

 V. 4. p. 336. and v. 5. p. 419., and Bot. Mag. tab. 2042. It has also 

 been called the Old White, being the first white-flowered variety known 

 in our gardens. It is recorded in the Hort. Trans, to have been raised 

 from a sporting branch of the preceding, and, indeed, resembles it iu 

 everything but colour. It is a very graceful and elegaut plant, and in 

 warm situations its flowers are often more or less tinged or dotted with 

 purple or blush colour. 



42. The Narrotv Quilled White; The Quilled While, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 

 337. and v. 5. p. 419. This rather slender variety is almost of the mid- 

 dle size, and has the slenderest and most completely quilled florets, and 

 the earliest flowers, of the whole group, which hang in gracefully droop- 

 ing tassels, and form a strong contrast to the next in almost every respect. 



43. The Great Tasseled White ; The Tasseled White, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 339. 

 and v. 5. p. 420. Has also been called the Expanded White. This large, 

 strong and broad, deep-green, shiuing-leaved variety is one of the latest 

 of all in blooming; but its lovely flowers are larger and more showy than 

 those of any white-flowered variety, and endured to the end of January, 

 1833, the date of the present paper. No flower in this chilly climate 

 stands the cold so well, or so long continues to beguile the fancy of a 

 florist by its protracted opening, by its hardihood in expansion, and by 

 the soft hue of its snowy blossoms; carrying on, as it were, the flowery 

 beauty of lingering autumn into the very bosom of winter, whose ice at 

 length closes the temple of Flora for a time, until the herald flowers of 

 spring appear amidst the melting snow, as if impatient of delay. 



"When Flora with her pleasing powers, 

 " Shows to the Sun her earliest flowers." 



•***♦* Half-doible Tassel Flowered; with only half-double flowers, and 

 narrow elongated quilled petals ; often drooping, and somewhat resembling 

 a tassel. 



