CHKYSANTHEMUM. 



Chrysanthemum Indimin. 



'.HJBYSANTHEMUMS have 

 been known in Europe for 

 fully two hundred years, yet 

 they have been but recently 

 < { "discovered/'' for as a fa- 

 miliar garden flower the his- 

 tory of the plant dates from 

 , the year 1843, when the first 

 public exhibition of chrysan- 

 themums was held in the 

 ancient city of Norwich . Very 

 soon thereafter followed the 

 formation of the Stoke New- 

 ington Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety, the first exhibition of 

 which was held in the year 

 1846. This society may be 

 regarded as the parent of a 

 thousand, for although three years later in its birth than 

 that at Norwich, it has served as the model for all similar 

 societies, and as the school of chrysanthemum culture for 

 the whole world. During a run of about forty years the 

 village that has become so identified with this flower was 

 better known to the floral world than any other suburb 



