S-. Connell & Collide 
AMERICAN NEW VARIETIES 
CAPTAIN TORRENS — A flue globular Japanese flower with massive petals, which are rather 
broad and slightly incurving at the tips ; colour deep golden yellow, outer florets shaded crimson- 
bronze. Crown bud. Plants, 7s. 6cf. 
CHARLES A. JESSUP — Incurved Japanese, with florets of medium breadth, but long and 
closely incurving, forming a really grand globular flower for show purposes. The colour is a rich 
golden yellow. Crown bud. Plants, 5s. 
DESDEMONA — A graceful variety of the reflexed Japanese type ; the florets are rather narrow 
and drooping,' and the blooms are full and very double ; colour rosy-pink, with paler centre. 
Plants, 5s. 
DR. CONAN DOYLE — An effective globular Japanese of good form, with medium-sized 
florets, which are stiff and erect ; a good show flower, of a pretty, soft, bright pink colour. Crown 
bud. Plants, 5s. 
DUCHESS OP WELLINGTON — -Very long drooping florets outside, with inner ones incurving 
in a bold heavy manner, making the blooms build up to a great size ; the florets are twisted, curly, 
and deeply grooved, aud of medium breadth ; the colour is pure golden-yellow throughout, and a 
more effective and striking variety for the show board can hardly be found in the Japanese incurved 
class ; rather dw r arf. Crown bud. Plants, 7s. 6 d. 
FRED. WATERTON — -A fine bold Japanese incurved flower, with deeply grooved florets of 
good breadth, which are twisted aud curly. A massive aud worthy companion to such a flower as 
Boule d’Or, except iu colour, which is of a soft pale shade of lilac-pink; medium height. Crown 
bud. Plants, 5s. 
FREELING J. LAWRENCE — Although a Japanese, this tray be described as a most excep- 
tional flower, for unlike all other Chrysanthemums its higher tone of colour appeals on the outside 
of the florets. The petals are of medium width, grooved, and sharply pointed at the tips, some of 
them turning over at the edge show the two colours in striking contrast. Inside of the florets is pale 
silvery piuk, with a reverse of bright violet-amaranth paling off with age. Plants, 5s. 
GEO. COLVILLE — A very round-shaped flower. The petals are incurved, making up a solid 
fine bloom, with fimbriated tips ; the colour is deep rose with a reterse of silver. Plants, 5s. 
GOLDEN WREATH — A rather loosely formed Japanese, with long, curly, twisted, and inter- 
mingling florets, which are flat and pointed ; colour bright golden-yellow. Crown bud. Plants, 5s. 
H. HAMMOND SPENCER — A large semi-spherical Japanese, with long flat petals of medium 
width ; colour light pale blush with centre suffused pale yellow. Plants, 5s. 
J. AGATE — A grand incurved Japanese variety, very large, and perfect iu shape, petals long, 
very thick, aud beautifully incurving; in colour there is nothing approaching such purity of 
whiteness. Crown or terminal bud. Plants, 7s. Grf. 
IAGO — Rather broad incurving florets; a fine massive Japanese bloom; colour deep golden 
yellow, slightly tinted crimson on the inside of the florets. Crow n bud. Plants, 5s. 
JAMES LAMONT — An incurved Japanese, ns round as a ball ; colour deep rosy-air.nranth, 
lighter towards the centre ; the petals are compactly arranged, and rather flat. Plants, 5s. 
J. H. RUNCHMAN — A globular Japanese, with very compact interlacing florets, large solid 
blooms ; colour a tine shade of rich golden-yellow, slightly tinted lemon-yellow. Crown bud. 
Plants, 7s. Grf. 
J. H. WITTY — A very fine semi-globular full Japanese flower, with sharp pointed florets of 
medium width. It is big and solid, with long outer florets that shorten towards the centre; deep 
primrose-yellow, shading off to sulphur ; a choice acquisition. Plants, 5s. 
J. W. MOORMAN — The most perfectly incurved Japanese in cultivation, having its florets 
most regularly arranged. The blooms are large, of good substance, ana wonderfully solid, are stiff 
and stout with finely incurving tips; a lovely shade of creamy-white. Plants, 7s. Gel. 
JOYCE A. FOSTER — A Japanese having flat stiff florets, a medium-sized bloom ; colour deep 
rose, tinted mauve, with a | pale shade of yellow suffusing the centre; dwarf. Crown bud. 
Plants, 5s. 
JULIAN HILLPERT — A massive Japanese, with very long tubulated and semi-tubulated 
florets. The colour is a delicate shade of creamy primrose, and the bloom is wide and spreading. 
Plants, 5s. 
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