My Garden in Spring 



One season they sent a large white form with cream- 

 coloured outer segments richly suffused with crimson 

 purple, asking what I thought had produced this sudden 

 break among seedlings of chrysanthus pallidus. Three 

 years previously I flowered a batch of seedling chrysanthus 

 here, among which were forms almost identical with the 

 Haarlem wonder, but raised from forms of variety coeru- 

 lescens, so I was able to reply that I believed them to be 

 pure chrysanthus in descent, and this has been proved by 

 the seeds of this blue and white form, which is now dis- 

 tributed and known as " Warley Variety," giving a per- 

 centage of typical pallidus forms at Haarlem. 



These blue and whites are lovely forms and very strong 

 growers, and I recommend a free use of Warley Variety 

 for the rock garden and also as a seed parent. For the 

 best form of my kindred race I have an even greater affection, 

 perhaps as my own raising to begin with, but it is a rounder 

 flower with more cream colour in the outer segments, and 

 the crimson markings are divided into more distinct feather- 

 ings. I call it Bowies' Bullfinch, having adopted the plan 

 of calling the best of my chrysanthus seedlings after birds' 

 names. Yellow Hammer, a light yellow striped with deep 

 brown, Siskin with bright yellow exterior to the outer 

 segments but the inner pure white, a very effective little 

 chap, and Snow Bunting, white with grey lines on cream- 

 coloured outer segments, have gone forth into the world, and 

 I wish them to bear the genitival form of my patronymic 

 before their avian pet name, so as to distinguish seedlings 

 raised here from others that I know are coming along in 

 friends' and neighbours' seed-beds. The 22nd of February 

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