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XXX. Account of several New Chinese and Indian Chrys- 

 anthemums, with additional Observations on the Species 

 and Varieties, and on the Management of the Plants in 

 Gardens. By Joseph Sabine, Esq, F.R.S., $c. Se- 

 cretary. 



Read, January 17, 1826. 



After an interval of two seasons, I again* present myself 

 before the Horticultural Society, with descriptions of New 

 Chrysanthemums. In that interval very extensive and beau- 

 tiful additions have been made to the number of the varieties 

 cultivated in this country, which it is necessary should be- 

 come known to the collectors of ornamental plants, through 

 the same medium of communication, which has hitherto been 

 used. The success which has of late years attended the 

 endeavours to increase the number of the varieties, and the 

 general improvement in the knowledge of their treatment 

 and cultivation, have raised this class of plants into the first 

 importance with the admirers of beauty and variety in 

 flowers. In the two last seasons, the exhibition of Chrys- 

 anthemums in the Garden of the Society has been generally 

 allowed to be the most splendid one of flowering plants in 

 one mass, that has ever been seen, and superior to any other 

 garden exhibition at even the gayest period of the year. 



Chrysanthemums in pots, in full flower, to the amount 

 of about seven hundred, were placed together in one of 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 412. 



