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honour of his native land, and to increase the number of 

 high-class Japanese exhibition blooms. 



Calvat's first seedlings were shown in this country in 

 1892 at a meeting of the National Chrysanthemum Society, 

 and they caused intense interest. The experiment was 

 repeated on several other occasions, and then little by 

 little Calvat's blooms displaced on the show boards, at our 

 exhibitions at least, the seedlings of almost every other 

 raiser at home or abroad. His flowers became so famous 

 that for a period of ten or twelve years no winning stand 

 at any of our leading shows could be found without a 

 large proportion of the Frenchman's productions. Among 

 his seedlings some of the popular favourites were Mme. 

 Carnot, Calvat's Australian Gold, Mrs. C. Harman Payne, 

 M. Chenon de Leche, N.C.S. Jubilee, Mile. Therese Key, 

 Ma Perfection, Mme. Ed. Roger, Mr. F. S. Vallis, Mme. 

 Paolo Radaelli, Marquis Visconti-Venosta, Sapho, President 

 Bevan, and President Viger. Many of Calvat's Chrysan- 

 themums will long remain in cultivation, if not here, at any 

 rate on the Continent, to testify to the great capacity and 

 industry of one who in many respects must be regarded as 

 the greatest Chrysanthemum raiser that ever lived. 



Of modern French raisers, that is to say, contem- 

 poraries of Calvat, nothing much can be said from an 

 English grower's point of view, for Calvat excelled them 

 all, but it may be observed in passing that here and there 

 in our modern exhibitions seedlings may be seen that 

 have come from other continental sources. 



Amongst the chief contributors in later years on the 

 other side of the Channel have been the Marquis de Pins, 

 A. Chantrier, A. Nonin, J. Heraud, Vilmorin Andrieux and 

 Co., A. Cordonnier, and Liger-Ligneau. 



