JERSEY SEEDLINGS n 



Cabinet shortly afterwards coloured illustrations of these 

 early seedlings were given. Other English growers, Mr. 

 Freestone and Mr. Short, also obtained novelties from seed, 

 and in consequence the difficult and costly process of im- 

 porting new Chrysanthemums from the Far East was no 

 longer deemed necessary. 



The scene of operations now shifts for a time to the 

 Channel Isles. For some years prior to 1836 an amateur 

 in Jersey, whose name has been variously given by 

 different authorities, but which may reasonably be assumed 

 to be Slater from evidence obtained in recent years, 

 appears to have been most successful in raising new 

 varieties. In that year Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall 

 Nursery, who had acquired a stock of these Jersey seed- 

 lings, staged a collection of them at one of the Horti- 

 cultural Society's meetings. This was only the first of a 

 long series of successes, and for many years these Jersey 

 Chrysanthemums occupied a leading position in the shows 

 and in private collections. 



The name of John Salter will ever remain closely 

 identified with the development of the Chrysanthemum, 

 and indeed he has been designated, not inappropriately, 

 the " father" of the Chrysanthemum. Having already 

 been engaged in its culture for some time, Mr. Salter 

 went to France in 1838 and settled down at Versailles to 

 improve the flower, as he found the climate of that country 

 was far more suitable for the purpose than that of his 

 native land. For ten years he laboured in France and 

 obtained results that up to his day were not equalled. He 

 imported from England all the old Chinese varieties, and 

 the Jersey and the Norfolk seedlings. He added to this 

 collection the best French varieties obtainable, and then 



