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Garden and Forest. 



[December 19, 1888. 



C. H. Wheeler, Hon. G. Welsh, H. Waterer, Gloriosuni, Bicolor 

 and Lord Byron may be especially noted, and are all worth 

 g-rowing. 



The most remarkable Japanese collection sent to this coun- 

 try is undoubtedly that made by a Japanese named Neeseina, 

 for some time resident here, who, on his return home, sent to 

 Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, of Boston, a small collection of Chrysan- 

 themums. Among them was the now celebrated plant named 

 Mrs. A. Hardy, which has created so much e.xcitement at tlie 

 tlower shows of the past season. While to my mind this is cer- 



larly good. No plant of 1887 has made so satisfactory an im- 

 pression upon me, in my own houses, as Spaulding's John 

 Thorpe, a Japanese tlower of large size, rich, deep lake in 

 color. Marvel, sent out by H. Waterer, a white Japanese with 

 large violet blotch in the centre, is distinct and good. Mrs. 

 Carnegie and Mrs. Morton, exhibited for the first time this year, 

 are both striking and promising varieties, but should have 

 another year's trial before they can be considered as fairly 

 entitled to tlie positions now claimed for them. 



Cambridge, Mass., December 4th, 188S. H. P. Walcott. 



Fig. 82. — Cbrysanthemum, Lilian B. Bird. 



tainly not the most beautiful Chrysanthemum in existence, it 

 is probably the most valuable addition made in recent years 

 to this class of plants. It is apparently of vigorous growth, a 

 character sadly lacking in Mrs. Wheeler, Bicolor and others of 

 this class, and should become the parent of many striking 

 novelties. Some other flowers from plants belonging to 

 Neeseina's collection are also very good. The plants now in 

 possession of E. Fewkes & Son have not been themselves ex- 

 hibited this season, but flowers from them have been shown, 

 and these have been especially commended, and deservedly 

 so. W. H. Lincoln, large yellow ; Lilian B. Bird, large, full 

 quilled pink flower; Kioto, large incurved yellow, are all particu 



Japanese Chrysanthemum, Lilian B. Bird. 



"T^HIS variety, an illustration of which, from a photograph, 

 *■ appears above, was received from Japan with the 

 now famous Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. It is a flower of the largest 

 size, with a full, high centre when at its best. Although it 

 resembles somewhat in form the old Glorie Rayonnante 

 in color, it is very distinct, being throughout of that clear 

 and soft shade of pink commonly called " shrimp pink," a 

 tint quite new to the Chrysanthemum. The florets are all 

 tubular, or quilled, long and slender, with the ends scarcely 

 expanded and slightly" curved inward. The unique color. 



