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arrivals, "Dinsmere" (which was sent out by Peter Henderson with such a 

 flourish of trumpets, as something beyond anything ever before produced) 

 is a fairly good and very free blooming red rose, but I have as yet failed to 

 detect any difference (save in name) between it and " Madam Charles 

 Wood," introduced nearly thirty years ago. 



The black spot has again seriously interfered with propagation by cut- 

 tings. The leaf, when affected with it, drops before the cutting is rooted, 

 and then the chances are that the cutting will not root at all. I have as 

 yet found no remedy for it, but as it has only been here two years, it may 

 again disappear. It is not altogether confined to the rose, but affects cur- 

 rant and other leaves. 



In spite of a few minor discouragements like these, the season has, on the 

 whole, been a satisfactory and encouraging one to the rose culturist. 



THE CHRYSANTHEMUM CENTExNARY. 



THIS was the great event of the month of November in Horticultural 

 circles in England, and was celebrated during the first week of 

 November at the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick, 

 by both a conference and an exhibition. At the latter it was the aim to 



many of the known 

 and the number of 

 agined when it is 

 no less than 900 

 the Cheswick Gar- 

 conference some val- 

 read, on such sub- 

 of the Chrysanthe- 

 its Culture, New 

 beginnings of its 

 and Japan are lost in 

 two hundred years 

 Holland, and about 

 ago three varieties 

 England ; and of 

 was at once recog- 

 autumn flower. Con- 

 been brought for- 



collect together as 

 varieties as possible, 

 which may be im- 

 stated that there are 

 varieties grown in 

 dens alone. At the 

 uable papers were 

 jects as the History 

 mum. Progress in 

 Varieties, etc. The 

 cultivation in China 

 antiquity, but about 

 ago it was known in 

 one hundred years 

 were brought into 

 these, a purple one 

 nized as a valuable 

 stant surprises have 



Fig. — 8. Mrs. Alpheus Hardv. 



ward ever since, either through fresh importations, or through hybridiza- 

 tion, until the interest in this flower has become a perfect furore, and almost 

 every form and color may be hoped for. 



