November 30, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



569 



the still generally adopted arrangement is on flat boards 

 with holes in them for little flasks of water, each flower 

 resting on its shoulders on the board. As a rule, the flow- 

 ers, especially of the Japanese varieties, crowd each other. 

 Bunches of flowers have been tried, but they do not please. 

 It must be admitted that the Chrysanthemum as generally 



the Japanese section, as shown in the various classes, I 

 give their names : Aida, Avalanche, Baronne de Frailly, 

 Boule d'Or, Carew Underwood, Coronet, Colonel W. B. 

 Smith, Edwin Molyneux, Etoile de Lyon, Ethel Paule, 

 Eynsford White, Florence Davis, Gloire de Rocher, Glorio- 

 sum, Hamlet, H. B. Ironside, Japonaise, Lord Brooke, L. B. 



Fig. 97. — Celastrus scandens. — See page 56S. 



represented on the exhibition-stand is as wonderful as it is 

 unnatural. 



The most praiseworthy exhibit of flowers at the Aquarium 

 was the first-prize collection of forty-eight large Japanese 

 varieties, shown by Mr. W. H. Fowler, of Claremont. They 

 were a grand lot, the size, form and finish of almost every 

 flower being exceptional. As they represent the cream of 



Bird, L. Boehmer, Madame Baco, Madame J. Laing, Made- 

 moiselle M. Hoste, Miss A. Hartshorn, Monsieur Bernard, 

 Monsieur Freeman, Mrs. A. Hardy, Mrs. E. A. Adams, Mrs. 

 F. Jamieson, Mrs. J. S. Fogg, Mrs. A. H. Neve, Mr. D. B. 

 Crane, Mr. E. Beckett, Mr. Williams, Puritan, Ralph 

 Brocklebank, Ruth Cleveland, Stanstead White, Sunflower, 

 Viviand Morel, W. W. Coles, W. Tricker, W. H. Lincoln 



