32 JOURNAL OE THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Chu-giku or Kurui-giku is a variety extensively cultivated by amateurs ; 

 the outer group of its petals are "tubular," and the petals should be 

 sixteen in number. All the other inner petals are flat, and the centre of 

 the flower should maintain its natural shape. The speciality of this class 

 is the curious curves in which the petals grow, and their constant change 

 whilst the plant is flowering. The outer petals, which are tubular, retain 

 their original straight form all the time, and the others, forming the inner 

 ones, curl or twist in almost every form, thus presenting different shapes 

 daily from the beginning of the blossoming till the end. In the class 



Fig. 3. 



called ' Kurui,' which means grotesquely-shaped, the number of petals 

 varies to a large extent, some even having only one line of the inner 

 petals. Great care must be used to maintain the high quality of the 

 blossom. To produce similarly shaped flowers even from the same 

 variety is no easy task. In Nicholson's " Dictionary," a figure entitled 

 " Japanese Chrysanthemum (Chinaman) " seems to be closely aUied to this 

 class, but its outer petals are not tubular. A plant which was exhibited 

 by Mr. G. Carpenter in the Show given last year by this Society, and 

 called 'West Hall Crimson,' seems also to partake of the character of 

 this class. 



