RAPID EXPANSION 15 



Anemone Pompon may also be regarded as one of the 

 products of the early " fifties." 



By this time the Chrysanthemum had definitely acquired 

 the position of a florist's flower and was universally regarded 

 as an important flower for the exhibitions. Societies for 

 encouraging its culture were formed and special exhibitions 

 rapidly sprang up all over the country. During the follow- 

 ing fifteen or twenty years the Incurved type and the Pom- 

 pons were the delight of the florists, and a high standard of 

 perfection was insisted upon, especially in the case of the 

 Incurveds. 



Once again Chrysanthemum culture was taken up by 

 growers in the Channel Islands, for, in addition to the 

 work of John Salter, the Jersey raisers Charles Smith, 

 Thomas Pethers, James Davis, Alexander Clark, and others, 

 did much to maintain the high standard of the Incurved 

 varieties. 



At this time the articles on Chrysanthemum culture 

 which appeared in the gardening press were supplemented 

 by independent cultural treatises by such authorities as 

 George Taylor, Joseph Dale, Samuel Broome, Shirley 

 Hibberd, and others. So voluminous has the bibliography 

 of this popular flower become that it is second only to 

 that of the rose. It is enumerated in detail in the writer's 

 work entitled The Florists' Bibliography. 



SOCIETIES AND THE EXHIBITIONS 



Reference has already been made to a show held in 

 1825 in the Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick, 

 when 700 plants in pots presented a fine display. Four 

 years later a show was held at Norwich, by the Norfolk 



