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velous success and exhibited to thousands whose interest 

 in horticulture is limited to these plants. Japanese varie- 

 ties were exceptionally fine this year, the most striking, 

 perhaps, among the newer ones being Australian Gold, 

 Mademoiselle A. Galbert, Madame Carnot, Australie, Nyanza, 



incurved Chrysanthemum arc anxious for its position. 

 According to Mr. Cannell, the Japanese varieties were 

 looked upon as curiosities in 1869, the loose, ragged char- 

 acter of the flowers being considered monstrous and ugly. 

 It is also remarkable that at that period the Japanese varie- 



Fig. 70. — Lonicera sempervirens. — Sec page 496. 



Mrs. J. Lewis, Simplicity and Madame M. de Proli. The 

 popularity of incurved varieties is evidently on the wane 

 with exhibitors, and even that beautiful variety, Queen of 

 England, which has reigned supreme since 1847, was so 

 poorly shown this year that old-fashioned admirers of the 



ties Mlid not properly develop their flowers till about 

 Christmas. Is the change in the time of flowering due to 

 breeding for early varieties or to a difference of cultural 

 treatment? Cultivators nowadays declare that by skillful 

 methods it is possible to produce Chrysanthemum flowers 



