INTRODUCTION. Vll 



pdled to abandon the idea, and to endeavour to raise 

 types and colours that would comply as far as possible 

 with public taste and requirements. 



" The first batch of popular sorts contained Nellie Pockett, 

 still a favourite everywhere. Then came W. R. Church, 

 Mr. T. Carrington, Mrs. H. Partridge, E. J. Brooks, Lord 

 Ludlow, Mary Inglis, W. Duckham, W. A. Etherington, 

 Mrs. W. Duckham, Mrs. W. Knox, Mrs. J. E. Dunne, 

 Miss M. Hankey, Wm. Gee, Mrs. J. C. Neill, Mary Mason, 

 C. H. Totty, Frank Payne, Leslie Morrison, Rose Pockett, 

 Pockett 's Crimson, W. Hotston, Pockett 's Surprise, Mrs. 

 H. Stevens, Gladys Blackburn, Mrs. C. H. Totty, W. 

 Mease, Alice Lemon, Mrs. R. Luxford, Howard Gould, 

 (syn. Bessie G. Payne), Mrs. David Syme, Miss Alice 

 Finch, and Miss E. King. Also the following incurveds : 

 Mrs. Barnard Hankey, Pantia Rallli, Clara Wells, W. 

 J. Higgs; and the decorative varieties, Market Red, 

 Freda Bedford, Wells' late Pink, R. F. Felton, Hetty 

 Wells, Foxhunter, Miss Muriel Smith, December 

 Gold, and Clara Vurnum. A greater number of 

 popular kinds might be mentioned, but I am 

 quite prepared to state that, after taking" into con- 

 sideration the perfection of many of last year's seed- 

 lings, and the knowledge gained as a result of a number 

 of systematic experiments that have been made during the 

 last few seasons, the standard will be very much higher 

 during the next few years." 



While Mr. Pockett was experimenting with large 

 Japanese chrysanthemums in Australia, Mr. T. Goacher, 

 of Tunbridge Wells, was busilly engaged in a similar way 

 with early flowering varieties at home. By dint of per- 

 severance he managed to obtain a number of excellent 

 specimens of distinct colours, such as Goaoher's Crimson, 

 Polly, Carrie, Rosle, Jimmie, Liillie, Mrs. A. Thomson, 

 1 Diana, Emily, Ethell Blades, Harrie, J. J. Hart, Wells' 

 Scarlet, etc. 



These " earlies " opened up a new field of endeavour 

 and pleasurable occupation for hundreds of thousands of 

 lovers of flowers for the professional gardener as well as 



