Plate 199. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS.— MES. GEOEGE GLENNY AND TRIOMPHE DU NOED. 



If Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, in their recent fine display of Chrysanthemums at 

 South Kensington, exhibited few positively new varieties of these handsome autumnal plants, 

 it must be conceded that they exhibited some of the older varieties in such new and improved 

 form that they were really quite deserving of being sent out as quite new. Of these the two 

 we now figure are examples. 1. "Mrs. George Glenny " was sent out so recently as 1874 

 by Mr. H. Cannell, of "Woolwich, and is a fine sport from the well-known variety, "Mrs. 

 George Eundle." 2. " Triomphe du Nord '' is an older variety, but one of the very best, and 

 was originally sent out by Mr. Turner, of Slough. 



Plate 200. 



POINSETTIA PULCHEERIMA PLENISSIMA. 



Under the above name this magnificent new variety of P. pulcherrima has recently been 

 described by Mr. Thomas Moore in the Gardener's Chronicle. Our coloured plate is only one 

 half the natural size, and represents to this reduced scale a single head of one of the specimen 

 plants at Messrs. Veitch and Sons' Nursery. The coloured bracts of the original measured 

 somewhat more than eighty inches across. This is the long-talked-of and singular novelty 

 discovered in May, 1873, by M. Benedict Eoezl, in a small Indian village in the Mexican 

 State of Guerrero. The Horticultural Press has, with one accord, spoken in the highest 

 possible terms of this valuable new variety of the old Poinsettia of our gardens, and the 

 Journal of Horticulture says that "since the introduction of the well-known plant, Poinsettia 

 pulcherrima, from Mexico forty years ago, it has been without a rival as a distinct, scarlet- 

 bracted, winter decorative plant. It is now, however, likely to be effectually superseded by 

 a new and totally distinct form, which has also been discovered in Mexico by M. Eoezl, and 

 which is regarded by that collector as the most valuable of all his discoveries. The entire 

 stock of the new Poinsettia is in the possession of the Messrs. Veitch, and is now in full beauty 

 at their nurseries at Chelsea. 



" The examples which we have seen of this plant are remarkable alike for the size of the 

 heads, their form, the distinct character of the bracts, and their marvellous brilliancy of 

 colour. In the old type the plant is surmounted by a single cluster of yellow flowers, from 

 the base of which the bracts radiate in a horizontal manner. In the new form the central or 

 primary cyme, which is surrounded by splendid bracts, is, as it were, the root of other flowers 

 which spring from it on short simple stems, each surmounted by flowers and bracts ; and these 

 secondary heads become further subdivided, and forming also perfect flowers and bracts — the 

 head, in fact, culminating in a multiplication of parts, each perfect and of extraordinary 

 brilliancy. 



"The head, which we more particularly noted, was sixteen inches in diameter, and from 

 the base to the apex of the cone of drooping bracts was eleven inches in depth. The bracts 

 on this head were fifty in number, arranged on seven separate cymes which had sprung from 

 the primary base. The colour is superlatively brilliant, as if a delicate tint of orange floated 

 over the intense scarlet, imparting a more dazzling appearance than is possessed by the old 

 species. If the designation ' a cone of fire ' is applicable to any plant in existence, this is the 

 one." Messrs. Veitch and Sons inform us that the entire stock is in their hands, and now 

 ready for distribution. 



