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Mcdama (recurved pompon) is another variety. 



Chogi-giku, known as the anemone chrysanthemum, is cultivated in 

 Maibashi district, and there are more than one hundred varieties. 



Fuhizume.— This incurved variety is inferior to the one grown in this 

 country. 



Hironoshi is a single-petaled variety, arid the width of one petal is as 

 much as two inches. Fig. 5 shows a flower of this kind. Its cultivation 

 seems to be almost entirely confined to Osaka, and although those shown 

 in the pictures were reared by me in Tokyo they are inferior to those of 



Fig. 5. 



Osaka in quality. A properly grown one will have sixteen petals. The 

 fact that the chrysanthemum crest of the Japanese royal family is sixteen- 

 petaled suggests that it was derived from this particular kind of chrys- 

 anthemum. The white seedling exhibited by Mr. T. B. Fortescue is of 

 a similar kind to this. 



Ichimonji-giku is chiefly cultivated in the Kumanamoto district ; the 

 petals are all tubular and shoot out vertically from the centre as if they 

 were made of wire. The petals of this flower are usually few in number. 



Ennichi-giku is the kind which is most extensively cultivated by the 

 Japanese florists for sale, and is very popular with the " masses " as pot 



