cultivated in England. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 337 



and the outside florets white, in which state it has been 

 figured in the Botanical Magazine, plate 2042. At other 

 times, though but rarely, one side of the whole flower will be 

 purple and the remainder white; and occasionally the outer 

 florets will be purple and the inner white. This plant is not 

 noticed in the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; it is 

 the variety 8, Alba or White, of Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus. 

 My enquiries respecting the original production of this plant 

 have not ascertained any thing certain, further than that the 

 variation from the purple kind was secured by propagation of 

 the sported branch in this country. Mr. James Mean, Sir 

 Abraham Hume's gardener, to whom I am indebted for 

 much information relative to the introduction of these plants, 

 thinks that it originated about 1802, in the garden of the 

 Bishop of London, at Fulham. Messrs. Lee and Ken- 

 nedy had it first for sale in the Hammersmith Nursery, 

 soon after that time. 



3. The Quilled White Chrysanthemum. The plant grows 

 nearly to the same height as the purple, as the branches are 

 numerous there are plenty of flowers on the whole plant, and 

 there are many flowers on each corymb. This comes into 

 blow the first of all the varieties ; in the scent of its flowers it 

 differs singularly from all the other kinds, having a strong 

 resemblance to that of new honey-comb before it is filled 

 with honey. The flowers, on first opening, have a pale yellow 

 cast, which continues longest in the centre, they then become 

 pure white, sometimes having a tinge of purple on the out- 

 side florets, and this is always increased by cold weather; 

 the florets project, and grow compactly together ; the whole 

 flower is nodding, and looks like a close tassel ; the expansion 



