356 Account of New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums. 



with the Buff or Orange, and its derivations, to throw out a 

 parti-coloured flower, such as some Rose florets mixed with 

 the Buff, or a flower Yellow on one side and Rose on the other. 



Those who wish to exhibit different flowers in the same 

 pot, may obtain their object in an easier manner than by 

 procuring the sporting plants. Cuttings or small plants 

 of the different kinds derived from the same origin, may 

 be planted in the same pot, and when they produce the 

 blossoms, as their leaves are exactly similar, they will have 

 the appearance of the same plant yielding differently coloured 

 flowers; the pots used for the purpose should be large, to 

 give full support to the increased quantity of roots. 



From an original drawing in the possession of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, it appears as if the Chinese obtained a 

 variety of coloured blossoms together by means of grafting. 

 Several different kinds, and those not sports from each other, 

 are represented in the drawing as all branching off from one 

 common stem, which is divided near its base into several shoots 

 bearing different varieties of Chrysanthemum. 



Since the publication of the list of figures, and the two 

 plates, in the last* Volume of the Transactions of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Dr. Sims has given in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine, folio 2556, a representation of the Expanded Light 

 Purple Chrysanthemum ; this, with the figures of the Change- 

 able Pale Buff, and the Two-coloured Red, which have been 

 engraved to accompany this Paper, make the number of pub- 

 lished representations in this country, eighteen. 



The Continental Gardeners have been in possession some 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 423, and Plates xvii.* and 



