CHRYSANTHEMUM SEEDS AND SEEDING. 



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so far as to say that any plants which cannot be reared from 

 seeds in English gardens equal to the varieties from other coun- 

 tries are in the main unworthy of our culture. 



In conclusion, I hope most sincerely that some amateurs, 

 with time and a love for this flower, will take up this phase 

 of Chrysanthemum culture as a speciality ; and, if they exhibit 

 some varieties with novel features or extra good qualities before 

 this Society, I feel sure that they will be rewarded as was 

 Mr. Wheeler half a century ago. 



Appendix. 



Dates and Authorities in reference to the Chrysanthemum. 



1688. Breynius, Jakob (b. 1637, d. 1697), (? as cultivated in 



Holland 1688-9). 

 1690. Van Eheede, tot Draakestein, Hortus Malabaricus (1678- 



1703), t. 44, vol. x. 

 1712. Kaempfer, Amoentates Exoticae. 



1750. Kumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (1741-55), t. 1, vol. v. 

 1753. Linnaeus, Species Plantarum (C. sinense, white flowers, 



large, and C. indicum, single white, and double small 



yellow), rep. by Willd. 1764. 

 1764. Chelsea Bot. Gard., introd. 1754 and flowered previous to 



1764. See Royal Society's specimen (= Miller's specimens, 



No. 2,112, in British Museum). 

 1784. Thunberg, Flora Japonica (as Matricaria). 



1789. Introduced into France by Ramatuelle, and cultivated by 

 M. Cels, then a celebrated nursery gardener of Paris, who 

 in 1790 sent the " Old Purple " (Bot. Mag. t. 327) to Kew. 



1790. Loureiro, Flora Cochinchinensis. 



1790. Introduced into England by M. Cels from France, and first 

 flowered in Colvill's Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, in 1795. 



1792. Ramatuelle (as C. morifolium), Jour. d'Hist. Nat. vol. ii. 

 (Paris). See Hemsley, ante, p. 111. 



1794. Moench, Method. PI. 1794. Suppl. 1802. 



1796. Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 327. (The first large-flowered Chrys- 

 anthemum bloomed in England. The variety was 

 called the " Old Purple," and closely resembles the more 

 modern variety known as " Dr. Sharpe " to-day.) 



1797. Willdenow, Species Plantarum (1797-1810). 



