By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



357 



time of the earlier imported sorts. In the list of plants cul- 

 tivated in the Botanic Garden at Pisa, twelve sorts are enu- 

 merated. Messrs. Audibert of Tonnelle, near Tarascon, 

 appear by their catalogue to have also twelve sorts in cul- 

 tivation. In the Bon Jardinier* for 1822, the Editor enu- 

 merated thirteen kinds, which are noticed as having been 

 introduced by M. Noisette into the French Gardens ; the 

 same account is continued in the Bon Jardinier for 1825. In 

 all these cases the names given to the varieties are principally 

 founded on the colours of the blossoms, but do not appear to 

 correspond with those by which they are known in Eng- 

 land. Each of these foreign collections is besides differently 

 named, and it is impossible without a comparison of the 

 plants to identify them. When M. Noisette visited this 

 country in 1824, he was presented (together with several 

 other plants from the Garden of the Society) with the twenty- 

 seven sorts of Chinese Chrysanthemums then described, and 

 a list of them is attempted to be given in the " NouvelZes" 

 of the Bon Jardinier for 1825, page 35, but their names are 

 very inaccurately printed, so much so, that some can scarcely 

 be recognized.-^ 



Considerable improvements in the cultivation of the Chrys- 

 anthemums, have been made within these few last years in 

 the Garden of the Society. An account of the management of 



* See Bon Jardinier for 1822, page 568, and for 1825, page 433. 



f Whilst this Paper was in the press, the Bon Jardinier for the year 1826 has 

 been received ; in this Edition names in French and descriptions corresponding to 

 those of the first twenty-seven sorts, enumerated in pages 419, &c. of the fifth 

 Volume of the Transactions of the Society, are correctly given. 



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