NEW VARIETIES OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



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Souvenir de Mme. Blandinieres is deep rosy-crimson, tipped 

 with gold in the centre of the disc, which is full ; the guard 

 florets drooping. 



Jeanne Marty, although introduced in 188G, did not become 

 generally known until last season. It is, perhaps, the finest 

 variety in this section in point of quality, having an especially 

 large lilac disc ; the drooping guard florets are blush-white. 



Single varieties have largely increased during the last three 

 or four years, so that now there are a goodly number, in shades 

 of colour from snowy- white to purple-red. Jane, or Snowflake, 

 is perhaps the finest white variety ; America, blush ; David 

 Windsor, chestnut-red; Admiral Sir T. Symonds, deep orange- 

 yellow ; Mrs. A. Le Moult, amaranth-crimson ; and Souvenir de 

 Londres, rich crimson, are some of the most noteworthy of new- 

 comers. Mary Anderson being exquisitely formed, the flowers 

 white with a faint tinge of blush. 



Pompons and Anemone Pompons call for little comment ; 

 nothing very startling has been added to these of late, if I 

 except Mile. Elise Dordan (in the former section), which is 

 generally admired for its neat form of flower and pleasing colour 

 — soft lilac-pink. 



JUDGING CHRYSANTHEMUMS : MEN AND METHODS* 



By Mr. J. Wright, F.R.H.S. 



Seeing that as much depends on men as on methods in the 

 discharge of the duties in question, I will endeavour to give a 

 little consideration to both, commencing with the former. 



A season seldom, if ever, passes without the qualifications 

 of persons who are appointed to officiate as judges at the chief 

 Chrysanthemum shows being questioned by writers in the gar- 

 dening press. To that I presume they have not the slightest objec- 

 tion. Honest criticism is wholesome in taking conceit out of men, 

 and putting them on their mettle in the work they undertake. 



One of the favourite grounds of complaint against certain 

 judges is, that they are not " growers " of the plants and blooms 

 the relative merits of which they are called on to determine. 



I will endeavour to go to the root of this matter. First, who 

 are the objectors, and what is their experience ? Secondly, who 



