150 Further Account of Chinese Chrysanthemums. 



communicate to them that the Society has had greater suc- 

 cess in the importation recently made from China than my 

 best hopes had anticipated. 



Of the two new varieties described last year, the Quilled 

 flamed Yellow is now very generally known, and nothing 

 further is necessary to be added to the account given of it. 

 But the Quilled Pink Chrysanthemum, which had then blos- 

 somed but imperfectly, having in the present season been 

 seen in full splendour, I am enabled to describe it more 

 correctly. 



The expansion of the flower is from three and a half to 

 four inches, the colour being a most delicate vivid pink ; 

 the florets, after spreading horizontally a part of their length 

 are curved forwards, and their ends are bent inwards, having 

 an appearance quite different from every other variety ; they 

 diminish in length as they approach the centre, still keeping 

 the character of incurvation, and thus forming a full double 

 flower of arched florets without a disc ; the florets are rather 

 flattened, and they all open their lips on their inner side, by 

 which their ends are widened considerably, and they have 

 thereby more breadth and importance individually. The 

 expanded flower has the scent of new honey-comb, similar to 

 that given out by the Quilled White. The buds are a dull 

 pink before they open. It is certainly the most beautiful of 

 any of the varieties yet known in Europe, but it is late in 

 coming into blossom, and does not yield many flowers ; im- 

 proved management will, however, make it more perfect.* 



* Since this Paper was read to the Society, a figure of this new variety has been 

 published in the Botanical Register, plate 616, from a specimen exhibited at a 

 Meeting of the Society, from the garden of William Wells, Esq. at Redleaf, 

 near Tonbridge, 



