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it would not find by its own natural reward. Chrysanthe- 

 mums were first introduced by individuals, and the public 

 obtained them through the nurserymen ; and if the Society 

 had thought they were not introduced fast enough, their legi- 

 timate business was to have pointed out the sources for obtain- 

 ing more sorts, and offered a premium for their attainment. 

 By interfering in this and other respects with the regular 

 commerce of gardening, the efforts of nurserymen and other 

 commercial gardeners are paralysed ; a false importance is 

 given to petty objects and details, and the funds and energies 

 of the Society are wasted on these, instead of being directed 

 to great and leading objects, such as determining the nomen- 

 clature of the hardy fruits and culinary vegetables of the 

 temperate zones of both hemispheres, and forming a com- 

 plete library ; which are two of the only three things which 

 the Society have the power of doing better than any indi- 

 vidual. 



We shall not, however, take leave of the subject of chry- 

 santhemums, without paying a tribute to the indefatigable 

 exertions of Mr. Sabine in procuring their introduction, no 

 less than in describing them ; and we will suggest to him, as 

 a medium of making all the varieties more generally known, 

 that of having figures of them printed in colours, which can 

 be done in a very superior manner and at no great expense. 

 As a proof of this, we refer to the carnation printed in 

 colours in Mr. Savage's beautiful work on ornamental print- 

 ing, executed by Whiting and Branston. On this plan, 

 coloured figures of 50 sorts, in 8vo., might be sold for 15s. 

 or 205. We should like to see strawberries, gooseberries, 

 apples, peaches, pseonies, carnations, auriculas, tulips, and 

 other fruits and flowers, published in monographs on the 

 same economical plan for general purchasers ; not, however, 

 to the exclusion of more splendid publications of the same 

 things to those who could afford to purchase them. 



3 1 . Account of the Cultivation of Chinese Chrysanthemums in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society. By Mr. Donald Munro, 

 F.L.S. Gardener to the Society. Read January 17. 1826. 



The present improved mode of cultivating chrysanthemums, 

 is stated to be derived from the information of Mr. Wells, 

 before alluded to. (p. 196.) In the beginning of April, 

 cuttings are taken from the top shoots of last year's plants ; 

 they are planted in the pots called small sixties, in mould 

 made up of one half equal portions of loam and bog- 



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