By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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produce only one kind of flower on all its branches, which, it 

 will be recollected, are only annual productions. 



If the origin of the Small Yellow is a matter of doubt, that 

 of the Paper White Chrysanthemum, which I am now to de- 

 scribe, will be determined with still greater difficulty. The 

 only point of certainty respecting it is, that it is not a sport 

 from any other kind cultivated in England, for its foliage 

 differs from all sufficiently to justify the statement that it is 

 original. It is not probable that it was raised from seed, be- 

 cause we have not yet had any instance of such mode of 

 increasing Chrysanthemums in our climate, so that we are 

 necessarily driven to consider it as a new introduction from 

 China ; which, by one of those misfortunes to which plants 

 in their transmission from shipboard to the garden, are too 

 often subject, had perhaps strayed from the possession of its 

 importer. 



A plant of this Chrysanthemum was accidentally seen by 

 Mrs. Marryat, of Wimbledon, in flower, in the autumn of 

 of 1821, in Covent Garden, and purchased for a sum not 

 exceeding that for which the commonest varieties are usually 

 sold. Its merits were then first observed, and the name 

 by which it is now known was attached to it ; plants of it 

 were propagated, which flowered in the season of 1822, and 

 some were presented to the Horticultural Society both by 

 Mrs. Marryat and Mr. Joseph Marryat, her son, from 

 their respective gardens. The plant is of moderate height, 

 with stiffish spreading branches ; the blossoms open soon 

 after those of the early kinds, three or four in a corymbus, 

 and are rather pendant. The scent is mild. The expansion 

 of the flower is near three inches, in some cases it shews a 



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