562 GAKDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



There are three classes into which the varieties of this plant 

 are distributed : 1 . The Incurved, such as have their petals 

 curved up towards the centre. " Reflexed flowers, or those with 

 their petals curving downwards," Mr. Dale says, " are now en- 

 tirely rejected as Show flowers." 2. The anemone-flowered. 

 3. Pompones. 



The following is a list of what struck me as the largest 

 and handsomest of those I saw in blossom in the Temple 

 Gardens : 



Astrolabe, orange-nankeen ; Bella Donna, delicate lilac ; Beverley, ivory- 

 white; Cherub, golden amber; Edwin Landseer, rosy ruby; Florence Mary, 

 very bright salmon-red ; Florence Nightingale, pale sulphur ; General 

 Slade, Indian red, tipped with bright orange ; Globe, white ; Gloria 

 mundi; Golden Beverley; Golden Nugget; Hereward; James Salter, a 

 Japanese; Golden Hermine, golden orange, tipped carmine; Hermine, 

 blush, tipped purple ; Jardin des Plantes, bright golden orange ; Lady 

 Eussell, blush lilac ; Lady Slade, delicate lilac pink ; Nil Desperandum, 

 dark red ; Nonpareil, rosy lilac ; Oliver Cromwell, dark chesnut ; Orlando, 

 rosy buff; Pelagia, bright orange cinnamon; Prince Alfred; Prince of 

 Wales, bright fiery red; Progne, crimson carmine; Prometheus, bright 

 fiery-red salmon ; Queen of England ; Yesta, ivory-white. 



The best way of treating the plant, as far as my experience goes, 

 seems to be this : About the beginning of January, or directly 

 the flowers fade and become unsightly, cut the flowering-stems 

 close down. Turn the plant out of its pot if it be in a pot, or 

 if it be in the border dig it up. Eemove the whole of the earth 

 from its roots, and then pull it completely to pieces, by tearing 

 apart each separate shoot and sucker. Prepare a piece of ground 

 in a shady spot by digging it up and rendering it mellow with a 

 mixture of old manure and a little sand. Put down the shoots 

 and suckers in the manner of cuttings in rows a foot apart, 

 and a foot between each shoot in the row. Water them daily, 

 and they will soon establish themselves and grow with great 

 vigour ; and, by the end of May, become large plants with nume- 

 rous ground-shoots. They should then be taken up, and the 

 shoots pulled apart at the roots, and each separate shoot planted 

 singly in moderate-sized pots, in which they may remain under 

 shelter from the heavy rains till October. They should then be 

 repotted into ample-sized pots and a new soil. Some few left in 

 the border will survive all extremes of weather, but the safer 

 plan is to put all that room can be found for under shelter. 



The Chrysanthemum is subject in the Cold season to the 



