40 Chrysanthemum Culture for America. 



such a name as that of John Lane at the front, we may 

 expect much from the west in the not distant future. Mr. 

 Lane is a retired business man, an enthusiastic amateur in 

 chrysanthemum culture, and treasurer of the National Chrys- 

 anthemum Society. He has extensive grounds and several 

 greenhouses, from which his friends and neighbors reap the 

 benefit, for his flowers are distributed with the most lavish 

 generosity. His critical notes on varieties and culture, writ- 

 ten in a style wholly his own, always receive great attention. 

 The chrysanthemum has been exhibited at the shows of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston since 1830. 

 The list varieties exhibited at that time was as follows : Quilled 

 Flame, Curled Lilac, Tasseled White, Golden Lotus, Large 

 Lilac, Changeable Buff, Paper White, Crimson, Pink, Lilac, 

 White, Semi-quilled White, Parks, Small Yellow, Golden 

 Yellow, Quilled Lilac, and Quilled White, these being exhib- 

 ited by Robt. L. Emmons of Boston, then recording Sec- 

 retary of the Society, and Nathaniel Davenport. The plants 

 were spoken of as grown in the open ground, and evidence is 

 given that that the number of varieties at this period was 

 very small. They were exhibited on the 2oth -of November, 

 and reported in the New England Farmer of November 26th, 

 1830. 



