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He was so extraordinarily fortunate in their cultivation that 

 he raised upwards of five hundred seedlings, which he sold to 

 Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall nurseries, and a considerable 

 number of them were known twenty-five years ago. 



According to a correspondent of Mr. Burbridge, the pro- 

 ducer of the first seedlings in the Channel Islands, was a baker, 

 and had his plants trained to the wall behind the oven. Oth- 

 ers soon followed, among them Messrs. Clarke, Davis, Peth- 

 ers, Smith and Wolsley, while in latter years, Mr. Dawnton 

 and Major Carey have contributed some very favorite sorts. 

 In Mr. Salter's catalogue of chrysanthemums more than half 

 appeared to be of Guernsey and Jersey origin. Our friends 

 in the Channel Islands have done but little in recent years, 

 compared with their former efforts, in raising new seedlings, 

 although it is not entirely neglected. Mr. Smith has long 

 since discontinued the growing of crnysanthemums from seed. 

 Mr. Pethers, who went to the Cape of Good Hope, seemed 

 not to have resumed its culture upon his return, and Mr. 

 Clarke has been dead for several years. Mr. Davis, whose 

 name is deserving of more than a passing notice from having 

 obtained Prince Alfred, Prince of Wales and Princess of 

 Wales, no longer devotes himself to the work. Mr. James 

 Dawnton, the raiser of Elaine and Fair Maid of Guernsey, 

 will be longest remembered of the Channel Island growers. 

 Notwithstanding the lull in seedling growing at present, the 

 chrysanthemum still has many friends and cultivators in these 

 islands. Their first exhibition was held in 1865. 



Belgium had its first chrysanthemum show in the autumn 

 of 1866, which was organized by the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of Ghent, and has been repeated in succeeding years, 

 others having followed at Liego, Antwerp, and Tournay. 



It is a matter of some difficulty to trace the work of 

 chrysanthemum culture in Germany, but it is safe to assume 

 that it was of some importance there in 1832, and has, we 



