214 The Neiv Pompone Chrysanthemums. 



during any period of their autumnal treatment, they are al- 

 lowed to get THOROUGHLY DRY at the roots, they most likely 

 will suffer to the extent of dropping their blossom buds. Care 

 must also be taken that their drainage is perfect, or else the 

 same result may be expected. When in their winter quarters, 

 they delight in what may be termed a medium temperature 

 — say from 45 to 50 deg. at night, and from 50 to 55 deg. by 

 day. Thus treated, they may be expected to begin bloom- 

 ing by Christmas, and continue to do so till May ; and instead 

 of, as may often be seen, producing poor thin blooms, to set 

 off miserable brown foliage, they will produce fine massy 

 blooms, for which their noble dark green foliage forms a 

 magnificent back ground. I have often observed that C, 

 Chandlerii, treated in the ordinary way, produces common 

 waratah blooms, without a white marking ; whereas, if treated 

 as here recommended, it will invariably produce blooms beau- 

 tifully marbled with pure white, which, combined with its 

 peculiarly splendid foliage, makes it a most desirable variety. 

 The camellia is less subject to insects of any sort, than most 

 plants, when properly treated ; when brown or white scale 

 attacks them — which, under proper treatment, and when kept 

 from infected plants, is rarely the case — they ought to be 

 washed with soap and water and a sponge, taking care to re- 

 move every scale, and finishing with a syringing overhead. 

 If you think these remarks worth a place in the Journal, I 

 may, on a future occasion, say something of camellias planted 

 in the borders, and perchance of oranges. 



Art. VI. The New Pompone Chrysanthemums. 

 By the Editor. 



Few flowers have exhibited greater improvement in the 

 same space of time, than the Pompone, or Daisy-flowered 

 Chrysanthemums. It is not long since Mr. Fortune first in- 

 troduced the original small-flowered variety, or Chusan 

 Daisy ; yet in a period of six or eight years, more than two 



