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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1875. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
HE subject of the date of introduction of 
many of our most common and most 
popular garden plants has more than onc 
been brought forward in these es; and we 
have before this drawn attention to the fact that 
many of the flowers which ornament the smallest 
and poorest garden now-a-days were not, indeed, 
rare, but absolutely unknown among the horti- 
culturists of former days. When speaking of 
Pelargoniums a few weeks back, we gave the 
dates of the first appearance of those now wet 
pensable border plants i in our gardens ; and w 
imilar manner бе 
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pensable venena of our gardens—we mean the 
Chrysanthem 
It would, indeed, be difficult to ri ien tour 
the value of this me plant all its 
varieties. Just a 
yeàr, when the approach of winter is felt in the 
sharpness of the mornings, however bright they 
may be, when the Pelargoniums and Heliotropes 
are, as it were, in daily expectation sp end 
fin al * notice to quit," when the Dahlia 
the eve of departure, and the cw alg iios 
ust now itis that the hardy 
symptoms of speedily approaching dissolution— 
ju 
Chrys anthemum 
white and gol n 
renewed des of xr a to our borders, 
which does much to carry us through a good 
part of the gef and айш winter season, 
Like pe Pelargonium, the Chrysanthemum is 
equa home with rich and poor,in the 
ei of the former as in the small back 
a advantage 
not shared by the Pelargonium but — " 
dii old-fashioned border eigenen that it 
о est 
uble. 
rather Pelargoniums, are by no means deficient 
in variety, the Chrysanthemum excels them in 
this p articular, and that not only in the varied 
dta but in the forms assumed by its 
blossoms. 
China and Japan — to which countries our 
houses and gardens are абера. i many of 
thei ent us the 
seems ain to have 
been held in great esteem in its native land. 
All the early t and botanists st visited 
China seem to have Ss struck with t 
tween the rows of bricks in their courts “ 
ay fine walks.” Не says “they plant them 
n spring; i onths they grow a yard 
high, and last four or five months,” „Loureiro, 
a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, to whom we are 
so largely inde ebted for our knowledge of the 
plants of Coc country in which he 
travelled at the Aut Quid anis ша mentions 
the Chrysanthemum among the plants which he 
saw on his journeys in that. country; and 
Thun refers to it as being cultivated 
in all the nes of Japan, and as occur- 
the neighbourhood 
g in a wi 
of Nagasaki. The t account, however, by 
y early writer, is that given b Rumphius in 
'the Herbarium Amboinense (1741-55). Hetellus 
how the plant was cultivated not only in China 
and Japan, but also in India and Malaya, and 
mentions the infinite number of varieties which 
ow very 
large blossoms were secured. On the occasion 
of entertainment given a Chinese he 
decorates his tables and windows with Chry- 
santhemu e the 
by the people of Jeddo, where the tea-gardens 
are adorned with “imitation ladies " made u 
these blossoms. 
^ 
species of Artemisia, and are 
standards, after the mann 
great vigour under these 
gular circumstances. 
The Ch ат EnA of our bias includes 
two distinct species, or, perhaps, more cor- 
rectly, two distinct races of a commo n type, one 
of which is represented by the * Pompon, 
r by the tall, loose-growing plant, with 
large, usually pink or yellow flowers, which is 
ho 
The former of these, which is known 
to the botanist as Pyrethrum indicum, although 
often considered as a more recent introduction, 
was bted. to E -horticul- 
turists and botanists before the latter species 
(P. sinense) was introduced. 
barium, and is the plant figured by Plukenet in 
his Phytographia (1692), as is clearly estab- 
lished by the original of thi 
appear to represent C, sinense with any degree 
of certainty, although there are one or nu^ which 
might possibly be small forms o 
he earliest 
doubtedly belongs to that species is one in the 
Banksian H 
Sir George Staunton, who travelled in that 
our gardens. 
presented to the Royal Society among the fifty 
plants which the Chelsea gardens annually sent 
to that body, in accordance with the terms of 
the deed of conveyance by which the land on 
s Sloane to the Apothecaries’ Com- 
p e plant. must have been 
there before that period. specimen is also 
preserved in the British and i: 
ma referable to P. indicum ; Ht the 
yp any P vate, when when the présent race adi df mura 
was introduced by Mr. Fortune, and became 
шана known as the Chusan Daisy, it was 
regarded as an entire novelty. 
duming now to the large-flowered Chrysan- 
um, P. sinense, we cannot do better than 
extract Us following account of its introduc- 
tion from. Mr. Sabine's paper in the Zransac- 
tions of the Royal Horticultural. Society for 
