14 Chrysanthemum Culture for America. 



present to the Royal Society fifty dried specimens of distinct 

 plants every year until the number reached two thousand. In 

 accordance, therefore, with the terms of the deed, a specimen 

 of this small yellow variety was, with other plants, presented 

 by the society's gardener, Phillip Miller, to the Royal Society 

 under the name Matricaria indica, and is still preserved in 

 the British Museum. 



Thunberg, in his " Flora Japonica," describes the plant in 

 1784, which he asserts is Linnaeus' s C. indicum, and refers to 

 the preceding account by Kaempfer. He, too, gives the 

 Japanese appellations, kik, kikf, kikku, kikof, and kiko-no 

 fanna, which latter name is but a different form of the word 

 kychonophane, used by Bregnius, the word fanna being used 

 by the Japanese as expressive of elegance. Thunberg men- 

 tions a great difference in color as well as size, also single and 

 double flowering kinds, all of which are grown in the gardens 

 of Japan on account of their beautiful flowers produced in the 

 autumn months, and he tells us that it is the same plant 

 mentioned by Kaempfer as matricaria. 



Loureiro, the Portugese traveler, in his account in 1790 

 of the plants of Cochin China, refers to the C. indicum of 

 Linnaeus, but his description evidently belongs to the Chinese 

 chrysanthemum. He speaks of the variety of the color of 

 its flowers, which he states are white, red, blush, yellow, vio- 

 let and purple, of various sizes, ard grown in all the gardens 

 of China and Cochin China. 



Ramatuella calls it Anthemis grandiflora, while Willdenow, in 

 1801, placed it under the samr genus, but gave it another spe- 

 cific name, calling it Anthemis artemisiafolia. Among other 

 botanical writers who described it, may be mentioned Moench, 

 Ray, Swett, Morrison, Valliant, Persoon and Desfontaines. 



Thus, while the chrysanthemum culture of to-day is denom- 

 inated a modern craze, it was in olden times the object of 

 more than ordinary interest. 



