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tation from Japan, among some very promising chrysanthe- 

 mums, another specimen of Mrs. Hardy. Among the seed- 

 lings of this variety raised by Mr. Manda, and shown by him 

 during the season, there has been no appearance of hairs. 

 One of the seedlings, named Bohemia, is a large, dark flower 

 of decided promise. Strangely enough, there does not appear 

 to have been any sport from Mrs. Hardy, though the unusually 

 large numbers of that variety which have been grown this 

 season would lead one to expect this not unusual occurrence. 



Of the varieties of recent introduction, the following may be 

 noted : Alcyon, Delie, Superbe Flore, Madame Pepee, Val 

 d'Andorre, Ed. Audiguier, W. H. Lincoln, L. B. Bird and 

 John Thorpe, all Japanese, have done well; Mrs. G. Wright, 

 Avalanche and Condor are three good whites of the reflexed 

 Japanese type ; Mrs. H. Cannell, white, incurved Japanese, 

 has not done well, while Mr. H. Cannell, though not a very 

 free flowerer, appears to be a real addition to the large yellows 

 of the old Grandiflorum class ; Mrs. N. Davis, a yellow sport 

 from Princess of Teck, has all the good qualities of one of the 

 best of the large incurved Chinese kinds ; Marie Ouvray has 

 not shown itself to be a valuable addition to the. long list of 

 early flowering varieties of more or less distinct violet shade ; 

 M. Gamier, a Japanese, with yellow ground, shaded and striped 

 brown-red, is a fine variety ; Souvenir d' Alfred Motte, reflexed 

 Japanese of a peculiar color, magenta and buff, is worth add- 

 ing to a large collection, and so, too, is Mrs. Falconer Jameson, 

 one-of Cannell's new varieties, a flower colored buff and red, 

 with yellow points ; La Tosca, Japanese, fiery crimson, striped 

 brown, though a small flower, is good and distinct ; Cythere, 

 of the same class, purple-amaranth and shaded dull red, is also 

 good ; Magicienne, a Japanese, chamois with light rose tints, 

 is a large and early flower ; Vieil Or, though very rich in color, 

 is too flimsy in substance to be useful; Etoile de Lyon, a deep 

 lilac-rose, margined with silver, of large size, though it has 

 not done well here, has succeeded so well on the other side of 

 the ocean that it should be given a second trial. 



The incurved Chinese flowers have fallen into undeserved 

 neglect in later years, and the few valuable additions to this 

 class have not attracted the attention due them. One of the 

 best of these newcomers is M. Roux, a seedling raised by 

 Boucharlat and introduced in 1884. It has retained, even 



