154 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 



These he reared from home-saved seeds at Beaumont 

 Buildings,, in that city, and on December 2, 1832, he 

 exhibited some of his seedlings in London, and received 

 a silver Banksian medal for them as the earliest seedling 

 Chrysanthemums raised in England. 



About 1836 seedling Chrysanthemums were pro- 

 duced in the Channel Islands for the first time, and a 

 great improvement began to be effected among large- 

 flowered varieties. Many of these early Channel Island 

 varieties were obtained by Mr. Chandler, then of the 

 Tauxhall Nursery. In 1838 Mr. S alter settled at Ver- 

 sailles, and, finding the climate suitable, imported 

 many of the best known varieties from England, and 

 set about their further improvement. In 1840 his 

 collection of English, French and Jersey seedlings 

 amounted to between 300 and 400 distinct kinds. In 

 1843 seedlings began to be raised in the nursery at 

 Versailles. 



The first public Chrysanthemum show for cut 

 blooms was held at Stoke Newington in 1846. To Mr. 

 Fortune, as has been stated, we are indebted for the 

 original Pompon from China, .namely, the Chusan 

 Daisy, introduced in 1846, and thence dates a new era 

 in Chrysanthemum culture so far as this section goes. 

 In the "Gardeners Magazine of Botany" for 1850 we 

 find many varieties of these French Daisy kinds de- 

 scribed, and four sorts are represented in a colored 

 plate. 



Modern Japanese Varieties. Both the large-flow- 

 ered and Pompon varieties were largely grown and 

 much improved up to 1862, when again Mr. Fortune 

 introduced a new strain in the shape of seven varieties 

 from Japan. So singular were these in shape and 

 color from all reputed standards of perfection at the 

 time, that they barely escaped total neglect, and conse- 



