ON THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 87 



it, with two other varieties, the previous year. It was 

 called the Old Purple, and considered to be a double 

 form of indicum. It forms the subject of Plate 327 of 

 the Botanical Magazine. Six years later a collection of 

 plants was grown in Colville's nursery at Chelsea, and 

 these, well cultivated and flowering freely, first taught 

 the general public that an important new plant had 

 arisen. 



That greatest of horticultural writers, John Claudius 

 Loudon, called the Chrysanthemum Anthemis arte- 

 misicefolia. Anthemis nobilis is the common Camomile, 

 and the characteristic odour of the Chrysanthemum can 

 now be located by the amateur. 



Loudon wrote of the varieties in 1822 : "The Chinese 

 are supposed, on good authority, to have fifty varieties 

 or upwards ; there are fourteen described by J. Sabine 

 as having flowered in this country, and as many more of 

 recent introduction, which have not yet flowered. . . . 

 J. Sabine describes as having flowered in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society the following : 



The Purple. Golden Yellow. 



Changeable White. Large Lilac. 



Quilled White. Rose or Pink. 



Superb White. Buff or Orange. 



Tasselled White. Spanish Brown. 



Quilled Yellow. Quilled Flamed Yellow. 



Sulphur Yellow. Quilled Pink. 



From 1822, therefore, British florists had at least 

 fourteen varieties to work on, differing both in form and 

 colour. We see that there were white, yellow, lilac, 

 purple, orange, and brown sorts. The terms " quilled " 

 and " tasselled " are not used in reference to Chrysan- 

 themums at the present day, although we have quilled 



