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Account and Description of five new Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mums ; with some Observations on the Treatment of all 

 the Kinds at present cultivated in England, and on other 

 Circumstances relating to the Varieties generally. By 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. fyc. Secretary. 



Read April 20th, 1824. 



In a former communication* to the Horticultural Society, 

 after noticing some new varieties of the Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mums, I mentioned the existence of others which had not 

 flowered sufficiently well to enable me to describe them cor- 

 rectly at that time, which was subsequent to the autumn of 

 the year 1822. Since that period, these, as well as other 

 new kinds, have perfected their blossoms, and I am now 

 about to add to the twenty-two already described, the names 

 and characters of five more, making the present stock of vari- 

 eties twenty-seven. 



The first of those above alluded too was statedf to be 

 semi-double, with quilled orange florets. It will be called 

 the Semi-double Quilled Orange Chrysanthemum. It usually 

 approaches very nearly to a state of perfect singleness, hav- 

 ing always a very large disc of short tubular florets ; in 

 some instances, however, it has more ligulate florets than 

 will justify its being called single. The stem is strong and 

 tall, and its branches spread, producing from one to three 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 149- 

 f Ibid. Vol. v. page 159. 



