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there is more yellow on their bases, and that the incurved 

 edges are yellow. There is no apparent disc. As the 

 flowers get older the florets become more incurved, espe- 

 cially towards the centre, and exhibiting only their backs, 

 have an appearance entirely different from that of their earlier 

 state, the whole flower being at the last expanded. The leaves 

 are rather large with deep indentures, the lobes are irregularly 

 serrated, with sharp-pointed serratures. A strong plant was 

 placed, in 1824, against the south wall in the Arboretum in 

 the Garden of the Society, and last season produced its flowers 

 not only much larger, but considerably earlier than those 

 under glass in pots. It is therefore probable that in another 

 and future seasons, the blossoms of the housed plants will be 

 superior in size to those produced in the present year, and also 

 earlier. From the circumstances stated respecting the out- 

 door plant, it will of course be understood that this variety 

 will do well in the open air against a wall. 



18. Late Quilled Yellow Chrysanthemum. This kind was 

 brought to England by Mr. Parks in the Lowther Castle in 

 1824, but did not flower in that year. It is so late in blos- 

 soming, and when out, apparently (from what has hitherto 

 been seen of it) of such inferior merit, that it will not be ex- 

 tensively cultivated, except where all the varieties are to be 

 collected together. The plant is of moderate height, pro- 

 ducing one tolerably perfect flower at the end of each 

 branch, and other imperfect ones from the sides ; the whole 

 if perfect would form a loose corymb. The florets project 

 and form an upright tassel-shaped flower, which when fully 

 blown has a diameter of about two inches. The florets are 

 all an uniform pale yellow, very slender, generally about an 



