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of India, or White Queen, White Globe (of which there are two, 

 one Smith's, the other Salter's), General Sladc, Nil Desperandum ; 

 1863, Abbe Passaglia, Beverley, Golden Eagle, General Bainbrigge, 

 Princess of Wales, Venus, Prince Alfred ; 1864, Lady Slade, 

 Mr. Brunlees, Mrs. Haliburton, Rev. J. Dix, Sir Stafford Carey; 

 1865, Empress Eugenic, Eve, Hercules, Lady Carey, Prince of 

 Wales ; 1866, Golden Beverley, Gloria Mundi, Hereivard, John 

 Salter, Mr. Gladstone ; 1867, Faust, Hetty Barker, Isabella Bott, 

 Lady Talfourd, Mrs. Heale ; 1868, Bronze Jar din. Baron Beust, 

 Enamel, Guernsey Nugget, Lc Grand, Mrs. G. Bundle, Mrs. E. 

 Sharpe, Miss Marecliaux, Princess Teck, Princess Beatrice ; 

 1869, Barbara, Blonde Beauty, Golden John Salter, Pink 

 Perfection, St. Patrick; 1870, Miss Hope; 1871, Duchess of 

 Roxburgh, Ensign ; 1872 was a bad year for everything, and it 

 makes no figure in the present summary; 187 '3, Hero of Stoke 

 Newington, Refulgence ; 1874, Emily Dale ; 1875, nothing ; 

 1876, nothing ; 1877, Golden Empress ; 1878, Mrs. Shipman, 

 Rev. C. Boys; 1870, nothing ; 1880, nothing ; 1881, Angelina' 

 Mr. Bunn; 1882, Jeanne d" Arc, Lord Alccstcr, Mabel Ward, 

 White Venus; 1883, Lord Wolseley, Mrs. J. Crossfield, Sir B. 

 Seymour ; 1884, Duke of Teck, Mrs. Weston ; 1885, nothing ; 

 1886, Bronze Queen, Yellow Globe ; 1887, Fingal. 



The dry list is, like many a dry tree, full of useful material. 

 It points to some interesting, perhaps I may be permitted to say 

 curious, conclusions. It shows by the list to which I subject the 

 chronology of the incurved, the best varieties were produced from 

 1847 to 1871, since when the lists have been refreshed by sports 

 chiefly, and the true seedlings have been secured through happy 

 accidents rather than as the result of systematic effort, as in the 

 case of those produced by Smith and Salter. In plain truth the 

 incurved pattern was used-up in the course of twenty to twenty- 

 five years, a result attributable not to the niggardliness of 

 Nature, who can bestow new countenances on her children ad 

 infinitum, but through the systematic sterilisation of the flower 

 for the attainment of floral perfection. When it is clearly under- 

 stood that to grow for the show-table and to grow for new 

 varieties are ends incompatible, we may hope for a new era of 

 variation in the incurved group, and the Chrysanthemum will 

 enter upon a greater and grander phase of development than 

 has been witnessed hitherto. Looking back from this point to 



