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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



On December 2, 1832, Mr. Wheeler is said to have ex- 

 hibited some of his seedlings in London before the Society, and 

 it is recorded that he received a silver Banksian Medal for them as 

 being the earliest seedling Chrysanthemums raised in England. 



Mr. Wheeler's success was very soon followed by at least 

 two Chrysanthemum growers in Norfolk, about the year 1835, 

 when Mr. Short and Mr. Freestone reared some fine incurved 

 kinds. Norfolk Hero, Nonpareil, and Prince of Wales (of 

 Freestone, not of Davis!) were amongst the pioneers. This 

 last-named variety was, as Mr. Alfred Salter informs me, a very 

 remarkable two-coloured, or red and yellow flower, that would 

 be highly esteemed to-day were it not lost to cultivation. 



Feance. — In 1838 the late Mr. John Salter settled as a nursery- 

 man at Versailles, and, finding the climate suitable, he imported 

 many of the best kinds as then grown in England, and set himself 

 about their further improvement. Seedlings began to be reared 

 at Versailles in 1843, and, at a later date, others appeared 

 at the Versailles Nursery at Hammersmith, W., and one of my 

 pleasantest memories as a gardener is of a visit I made in 1868 

 to that classical ground, where I saw Mr. Salter himself, and 

 heard him discourse on the best new Chrysanthemums of that 

 year. Mr. Salter may fairly be called the " Father of the 

 Chrysanthemum " in England, since he not only reared many 

 fine varieties himself, but he bought up the finest and best of the 

 seedlings of his time, as then reared by Webb, Smith, Clark, 

 Davis, Pethers, and others in the Channel Islands, where the 

 tradition still lingers that neither Mr. Salter nor Mr. Bird of 

 Stoke Newington would look at any seedlings except incurved, 

 or now and then a superior new pompon. 



The following is a list of Chrysanthemums actually reared from 

 seed by the late Mr. John Salter, or by his son, Mr. Alfred Salter, 

 who is, happily, still spared to us as an enthusiastic amateur, 

 and as a distinguished raiser of seedlings of our popular flower : 



*Annie Salter (1844) 

 *Alfred Salter (1856) 



Adrastus 



Andromeda 



Arthur Wortley 



Chang 

 *Cloth of Gold (1850) 



Countess Granville 

 Cossack (A. Salter) 

 *Crimson King, or King- of the 

 Crimsons (1847) 

 Daimio 



Diamant of Versailles 

 Duchess of Edinburgh 



Comet , Emperor of China 



