cultivated in England. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 353 



to Sir Abraham Hume, we are indebted for the many kinds 

 of Chinese Chrysanthemums which we now possess ; but 

 the credit of their first re-appearance, as far as their present 

 existence is concerned, belongs to M. Blancard,* a mer- 

 chant of Marseilles, who in 1789 imported three different 

 plants from China, one with Purple, one with White, and one 

 with Violet flowers. He lost the two last ; the first lived, and 

 was sent to the Jardin du Roi at Paris in 1791. This is the 

 Purple variety ; it had been transmitted to this country from 

 France in 1790, and after its arrival here, the Changeable 

 White was obtained from it by cultivation. Between the 

 years 1798 and 1808, inclusive, eight new varieties were im- 

 ported from China into England, in the following order : the 

 Rose and the Buff together, in 1798 ; the Golden Yellow, and 

 the Quilled Yellow together, in 1802 ; the Sulphur Yellow at 

 the latter end of the same year; the Spanish Brown in 1806 ; 

 and the Quilled White and Large Lilac together, in 1808. 

 Of these the Sulphur Yellow was imported for the late 

 Thomas Evans, Esq. of Stepney, and the other seven sorts 

 for Sir Abraham Hume. Later importations have pro- 

 duced two others, the Tasselled White in 1816, and the 

 Superb White, in 1817. In May, 1819, Messrs. Barr and 

 Brookes of Ball's Pond, imported, in the Lady Melville 

 Indiaman, commanded by Captain John Stewart, three 

 more Chrysanthemums (together with various other cu- 

 rious plants, under the charge of Mr. Joseph Poole, a 

 gardener sent out by them, for the express purpose of 

 collecting Chinese plants), but these have not blossomed in 



* Journal cTHistoire Naturelle, vol. ii. page <>33. 



