ITS HISTORY AND PROGRESS 7 



his most sanguine hopes, for he has left on record to the 

 present day some of the finest forms of the incurved 

 section. 



We will now pass on to the year 1841, notable for 

 the appearance of two weekly papers, both of which 

 rank of some importance at the present day. In the 

 Gardeners Chronicle for that year we find frequent 

 references to the Chrysanthemum How to flower in 

 Spring and Autumn, to raise from seed, soil, as a 

 florists' flower,' etc. 



Also there are advertisements from May, Salter, and 

 Chandler, all having Chrysanthemums for disposal. 



There is a note on the latter's establishment at 

 Vauxhall, with a list of the best varieties of Chrysan- 

 themums growing there, of these I append a few : 



Conqueror, a good early white Lucidum, silvery, with 

 regularly incurved petals ; Vesta, white, good form with 

 broad petals ; Exquisite, incurved white ; Goliath, large 

 with yellow centre ; Compactum, small, late Invincible, 

 cream, with inflexed petals ; Celestial Beauty, blush ; 

 Empress, fine lilac pink, with petals somewhat twisted ; 

 Perfection, incurved pink; Chancellor, large quilled pink; 

 Elegans, double pink ; Pulcherrim, deep pink, very full ; 

 King, pink, with an orange-tinged centre, flower very 

 double and evenly incurved ; Campestrini, dark crimson 

 double good shape ; Casimir Perrier, pretty, flat-petalled 

 variety; Sultana, fine dark crimson; and Grand Napoleon, 

 velvety crimson; Due de Calynian, red petals, tipped 

 more or less with yellow; Arago, buff; Marie Therese, 

 fine bright red ; Conductor, fine double orange ; Adven- 

 ture, double yellow ; and Gouvion St Cyr, double in- 

 curved, orange with bronze markings on petals. 



Two matters to which much importance was attached 

 in those days were the shape and symmetry of the flower 

 and the colouring, which had to be of a decided tint or 

 tone, otherwise the plant was discarded. 



