CHRYSANTHEMUM SEEDS AND SEEDING. 



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Flcur tie Marie (1840) 

 Garnet 



Golden Hermione 

 *Golden Queen of England (1859) 

 •"James Salter (1861)) 



Jane Salter 



Jenny Lind 



John Bunyan (1862) 

 *John Salter (1866) 



Kaempfer (A. Salter) 



King of Anemones (1857) 

 *Lady Talfourd (1867) 



Marquis of Lome (A. Salter) 

 Meg Merrilies (1871) 

 Nancy de Sermet 

 Purple King 

 *Queen of England (1849) 

 Queen of the Isles (I860) 

 Rex Rubrorum (A. Salter) 

 Scarlet Gem (1857) 

 Snowball (1862) 



Tisiphone (single red), (A. Salter) 



* Venus (1865) 



* Versailles Defiance (1852) 



♦Madame Poggi (1844) 



* Terhaps those marked with an asterisk are Mr. John Salter's best seedlings. 



The way Mr. {Salter managed his seed-bearing plants at Ver- 

 sailles was to plant the early kinds at the foot of a south wall, 

 and in the autumn a coping of glass was placed just above 

 the flowers to keep the blossoms dry. They were also pro- 

 tected in front by a blind or other shelter during severe frost. 

 The seed takes a long time to mature, and was seldom ready for 

 gathering before February or March. Seed-saving was found 

 by Mr. Salter to be a more difficult matter in England, parti- 

 cularly with the incurved varieties, the rains and, worse still, the 

 London fogs of November rendering it nearly impossible, so 

 that one might almost be tempted to say that the seed gained 

 was not worth the trouble. The only way found successful was 

 to grow the plants quite naturally in pots (48's), and to flower 

 them as early as possible, keeping the flowers quite dry, but in 

 the open air, in a warm sheltered situation, until the flowers were 

 quite over, after which they were placed in a warm greenhouse, 

 with a free current of air passing through it, and the result was 

 a little seed. 



Channel Islands. — Mr. Charles Smith, of Guernsey, who 

 has raised some of the very best of incurved varieties, tells me 

 that he grew his seed-bearing plants, and saved the seed, in the 

 open air, against sunny walls. One season he raised three 

 thousand seedlings, out of which some sixty or so were sold to 

 Mr. Salter and to Mr. Bird, of Stoke Newington. Mr. Smith 

 says a warm, sheltered, high and dry garden are the necessary 

 conditions for securing seeds, a result very difficult to attain in 

 low, damp, and foggy localities. 



One feature insisted on by Mr. Smith, who reared incurved 

 and pompon varieties only, is that the seedlings from the same 



