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as a chrysanthemum society does not exist in France. We 

 quote from a letter of Messrs. Lemoine and Fils, Nancy, 

 dated July 9, 1890, in which they kindly give the following in- 

 formation : "We have no chrysanthemum society in France, 

 but the numerous horticultural societies in our country are 

 much interested in chrysanthemums, and nearly every one 

 has a chrysanthemum show at the proper season. Pot-grown 

 plants are generally exhibited ; cut flowers in small quantities 

 only. Here we do not grow the specimens for exhibition, as 

 the practice is in England and America. We do not care for 

 the enormous flowers that English florists obtain, or huge 

 plants with only a few blooms upon them. Here the plants 

 are treated to give the largest number of blooms, and in the 

 most natural way. New varieties of chrysanthemums are not 

 very largely produced in France, except in the southern por- 

 tions. Here in Nancy we have a severe climate, and it is 

 nearly impossible to get seeds of the double varieties. Per- 

 sonally, we have sent out some good novelties, but the seed 

 that yielded them was not our own. There is no country 

 where there is so large a quantity of novelties raised annually 

 as in France. For instance, this year, Simon Delaux, of Tolouse, 

 offers 24 new varieties of his own production j M. de Reydellet, 

 of Valance, 18 novelties ; M. Louis Lacroix, 25 varieties; M. 

 Rozain Boucharlet, of Lyons, 14 novelties ; M. Host, of 

 Lyons, 7. novelties ; M. Santel, of Salon, near Marseilles, 12 

 novelties, besides a number raised by Etienne Lacroix, M. 

 Bernard, Pertuzes and Audiguer, of Tolouse, and others. Over 

 two hundred novelties are annually produced in the south of 

 France, principally of the Japanese and Chinese forms." 



From this we note that the large blooms and specimens of 

 plants so common at our shows here are not seen in France, 

 and, judging from the schedule of prizes of some of the dif- 

 ferent exhibitions at hand, their culture is not encouraged. 

 The arrangement of plants for the best effect is one of the 



