By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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aided by the friendly exertions of Mr. Reeves, and the obli- 

 ging attentions of the Commanders of the China ships, have been 

 unceasingly directed for some years towards the introduction 

 of these and other ornaments of the Chinese gardens. In t he 

 year 1822, a severe disappointment was experienced, as respec- 

 ted the Chrysanthemums ; an assemblage of forty varieties 

 corresponding to the drawings then in the possession of the 

 Horticultural Society, had been diligently made by Mr. John 

 Potts, a gardener in the service of the Society, who went 

 to China in 1821, but the whole were lost in consequence 

 of an accident which befel the ship, in which they were 

 embarked, in her voyage home. We look with confidence 

 to a more successful issue in this class of plants, to the mis- 

 sion of Mr. John Damper Parks, who went to China last 

 year, and is now on his return home ; the plants already 

 received from him, amongst which are several Chrysanthe- 

 mums, have arrived in a much healthier state than usually has 

 been the case, and which is attributable not only to the care 

 with which they were packed, but to the attentions which 

 were given to them during their voyage. 



In my last communication on this subject, which has been 

 printed in the Transactions* I intimated the probability 

 that these plants might hereafter be considered as belonging 

 to a species distinct from the Chrysanthemum Indieum of Lin- 

 naeus. This position I have endeavoured to establish in a 

 communicationf to the Linnean Society. It is there pro- 

 posed that the species to which these belong shall hereafter 

 be considerad as the Chrysanthemum Sinense, the type of 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Volume v. page 161. 

 f See Linnaean Transactions, Volume xiv. page 142. 



