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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 29, 1864. 



which they obtain from tlieir own stables, and from the 

 London yards. At Lois Weedon Wheat is grown every 

 year on the same plot. We should advise yon to trench the 

 ground, bringing the lower spit to the surface annually. 

 Your farmyard manure will be the only fertiliser you need.] 



CKRYS AJSTTHEMXTMS . 



3EB. SAXTEE'S, VERSAILLES STUESEKY, HA3I3IEKSHITH. 



The winter garden here is just now a beautiful sight, the 

 Chrysanthemums, numbering about 1S00, being at present 

 in full perfection, and the whole are arranged with exquisite 

 taste, the brightness of the colours, which would otherwise 

 fatigue the eye, being skilfully toned down, so as to pro- 

 duce a brilliant, but not dazzling effect. With this object 

 Oranges, Araucarias, various Eerns, and some other plants 

 are introduced in groups here and there, especially near the 

 entrance ; baskets of Woodwardia radieans, and other Eerns 

 are suspended from the roof; tall Scarlet Geraniums are 

 trained on the back wall above the Chrysanthemums ; and 

 in front of the Geraniums are ranged fruiting Orange trees 

 in pots. The small oval beds in the centre walk where the 

 banks of flowers recede are chiefly centered with tall plants of 

 Centaurea candidissima surrounded by charming little Pom- 

 pons, studded with innumerable blooms. Pine a-s Mr. Salter's 

 annual show has been for several years, that of the present 

 season far surpasses them, and whoever has not seen it can 

 form but a faint conception of its beauty. 



Mr. Salter is so well known as the raiser and introducer 

 of beautiful novelties, as to render comment on that head 

 unnecessary, for not a year passes in which he does not 

 acquire some striking novelty out of the thousands of seed- 

 lings which he himself raises, independent of the many other 

 sources which his extensive connection enables him to draw 

 from. Of the new varieties of 1S64, we noticed last autumn 

 several which were of high merit, and especially Princess 

 of Wales, which appears to be destined long to rank as one 

 of the most beautiful in cultivation. Its colour, a pearly 

 white tinged more or less with rose lilac, according to its age 

 and other circumstances, is most beautiful. Prince Alfred is 

 another noble flower, very large and full, with broad, finely- 

 incurved petals of a rosy purple ,- also General Bainbrigge, 

 orange amber, and which is already deservedly a great 

 favourite for exhibition. Lord Clyde, glowing crimson, is 

 of a splendid colour, and Eobert James, a fine bright cin- 

 namon and orange. Bev. Joshua Dix is another fine show 

 flower, the colour orange red, and the same may be said of 

 Sir Stafford Carey, dark chestnut, with golden points. Be- 

 sides these we noticed Mrs. Haliburton, a very double sulphur 

 white; Grange Lodge nival, orange salmon; LallahRookh, 

 dark ruby rose ; Mrs. E. Miles, bright yellow, a good ex- 

 hibition flower; Donald Beaton, St. Margaret, Bella Donna, 

 Elorence Nightingale, Sam Slick, Pelagia, St. Patrick, and 

 some others. 



Still more interesting were the seedlings for 1S65, though 

 all of these had not been named, nor would this be done 

 till more had been seen of their character ; for Mr. Salter is 

 very careful not to send out inferior varieties, and for one 

 seedling that he retains he often destroys hundreds. Vir- 

 gin Queen is a large, fine, close flower, pure white ; Ranun- 

 culus has a very broad petal, crimson, lighter at the back; 

 King of Denmark is a large dark lilac, with silvery back, and 

 is of fine form ; and Mr. Wynness, a dark crimson approaching 

 to mulberry, is one of the richest colours we have seen in 

 the Chrysanthemum. Yenus, delicate lilac, finely incurved, 

 was to have been sent out last year, but sufficient stock had 

 not been propagated, and it is, therefore, numbered with the 

 new varieties. Mrs. Brunlees, cinnamon, with orange points, 

 is very attiaetive in colour; and Golden Ball is remarkably 

 high, forming a fine golden orange ball. Two fine rose 

 lilacs exist in Albert Helyer, and Lady Carey, both of which 

 are very large and beautifully incurved, and Pink Pearl, 

 another of the same colour, but shading off to white, promises 

 to be equally fine as a show flower and pot plant. Prince of 

 Wales, mulberry, with a lighter centre, has the petals, or, 

 more properly, florets broad, even, and beautifully incurved. 

 Sam Weller, finely incurved, reddish cinnamon; Hercules, 

 dark, very large and fine for conservatory decoration ; 

 Othello, a fine dark mulberry ; Margaret Yateher, bright 



rose with a lighter centre ; Golden Dr. Brock, a finely- 

 formed amber sport of Dr. Brock ; Imogene, lilac snaded 

 blush, a fine conservatory plant ; and Princess Margaret, a 

 very pretty silvery rose anemone, are the principal of the 

 other new sorts for 1S65. We must not, however, omit 

 mention of John Salter, which Mr. Salter considers will 

 prove the finest flower he ever raised; as seen by us the 

 colour was a reddish amber changing to amber at the 

 centre, the petals remarkably broad and smooth. 



Among Pompons were Lizzie Holmes, a very free and 

 double canary yellow; Lady Dorothy Nevill, bright yellow ; 

 Miss Nightingale, a blush anemone, with a white centre, all 

 of them varieties of 1864, and of older kinds, Capella, dark 

 reddish chestnut, with an orange centre ; Eairest of the 

 Pair, a very attractive free-flowering lilac blush ; Madame 

 E. Doma^e, beautiful pure white; Salamon ; Eose Trevenna; 

 Mrs. Dix, blush bordered with rose, very fine; Madame 

 Pould, cream; Daniie, golden yellow, and many others. 



Many beautiful flowers of less recent large varieties offered 

 themselves to the view at every turning, but being now 

 pretty extensively known, it would be of little advantage to 

 enumerate their names, a few however may be mentioned 

 as useful for particular purposes. Thus — Abbe Passaglia, 

 White Christine, and Her Majesty, make fine conservatory 

 plants, and Cloth of Gold, though ragged, is excellent for 

 the same purpose ; Progne, is the only one having the same 

 brilliant crimsori carmine colour, whilst White Queen of 

 England, a sport from the blush kind, is splendid for cut 

 blooms. Beverley, another white, is fine for the same pur- 

 pose, also as a pot rjlant, and Lord Eanelagh, Lord Pal- 

 merston, Lady Hardinge, Cleopatra, Sparkler, General Slade, 

 Talbot, and Duchess of Buckingham, are adapted for both 

 purposes. The old Quilled White is another kind/'whieh, 

 though not a florist's flower, is late and excellent for forcing 

 and bouquets. 



There were besides several of the Japanese Chrysan- 

 themums, brought home by Mr. Fortune and others, such 

 as Laciniatum, fringed white like a Dianthus, and pretty 

 for bouquets ; Late Yellow Dragon, a large, coarse-looking 

 yellow ; and Grandiflorum and Bed Dragon, which were 

 better than the others, and might be useful for conservatory 

 decoration. As many persons are desirous of knowing what 

 kinds are the most suitable for this purpose, we give beneath 

 selections of twenty large-flowering Chrysanthemums, and 

 the same number of Pompons, affording a diversity of colour, 

 and suitable for conservatory decoration. 



Large-flowering.— Beverley, White Queen of England, Mrs. 

 Haliburton, Her Majesty, Lady Hardinge, Princess of Wales, 

 Bella Donna, Marshal Duroe, Lord Palmerston, Lord Clyde, 

 Progne, Prince Albert, Sparkler, General Slade, Antonelli, 

 Little Harry, Sir S. Carey, Jardin des Plantes, Yellow Her- 

 mine, and Golden Formosum. 



Pompons.— Madame E. Domage, Mdlle. Mart, Cedo Nulli, 

 Madame Fould, Fairest of the Fair, Lilac Cedo Nulli, Eose 

 Trevenna, Trophee, Adonis, Salamon, Jane Amelia, Eequiqui, 

 Aurore Boreale, Daniie, Mr. Astie, General Canrobert, Ca- 

 nary Bird, Capella, Miss Julia, and La Eousse. 



In the span-roof house adjoining the winter garden were 

 several specimen plants in fine bloom, particularly Jar- 

 din des Plantes, and some seedlings, and in the lean-to 

 against Mr. Salter's residence seedling Geraniums, ob- 

 tained between a Nosegay and a scarlet kind, and which 

 partook a good deal in the character of those raised by 

 Mr. Beaton ; also several Centaureas. One of these was 

 the true ragusina, for which candidissima is very generally 

 sold, and gymnocarpa, another, is very, useful for winter. 

 We also noticed a variety of Cineraria maritima called com- 

 pacta, which has the merit of being of dwarf, compact habit, 

 and twe pretty Geraniums, one belonging to the Zonale 

 section, with a well-marked horseshoe, and a white flower 

 with a deep rose centre, and another named Madame Barre, 

 of a very deep rose, deeper than Helen Lindsay, and of 

 dwarf habit. A pretty hardy Sedum, provisionally named 

 glaucum from its colour, used in the winter garden and out 

 of doors, forms a pretty and very close carpet, and is well 

 suited for edging beds and covering banks of earth. 



Out of doors the borders were gay with Chrysanthemums 

 in great numbers and variety, and though some of them 

 had been exposed to 11° of frost (thermometer 21°), their 

 general appearance was good. It was interesting to notice 



