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cultural Society in the Chiswick Garden, and an attempt 

 at classification was made by the Society's gardener, Mr. 

 Donald Munro. Mr Haworth also classified the known 

 varieties in 1833, and it is interesting to note that the style 

 of nomenclature was then simple and descriptive, for the 

 varieties were distinguished chiefly by their peculiarity of 

 form and colour in names such as Tasselled White, Quilled 

 Lilac, Golden Yellow, The Starry Purple, Curled Blush, 

 and Quilled Orange. 



By this time interest in the flower was pretty general, 

 and this interest was further encouraged by the holding of 

 a fine Exhibition in Chiswick Gardens in the autumn of 

 1825. Many of the novelties were illustrated and described 

 in such publications as the Botanical Magazine, the Botanical 

 Register, Sweet's British Flower Garden, and the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Transactions. 



Up to this time no attempt had been made to raise new 

 varieties from seed. Indeed, although reference had been 

 made on several occasions by persons interested in the 

 new favourite to the possibility of raising seedlings, no 

 one in this country appears to have attempted doing so 

 until about 1830. But in France Captain Bernet, a retired 

 army officer, and his gardener, Dominique Pertuzes, had 

 raised seedlings as early as 1827. Other cultivators in 

 France followed his example, the chief among them being 

 M. Lebois, his widow Mme. Lebois, M. Miellez, and M. 

 Pele. 



So far as England is concerned, Mr. Isaac Wheeler, of 

 Oxford, was probably the first to raise seedlings. He 

 exhibited some of his novelties at a meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society on December 4, 1832, for which he was 

 awarded a silver Banksian medal, and in the Floricultural 



