S EED is now being saved iu every country in the world. It comes up readily, and of course 
each raiser secs wonderful things in his own, so they are thrust on to the public. From 
long experience, seedlings want carefully selecting with practical knowledge, and even then should 
be well grown and shown the next year, there may be many little nasty habits to prevent it 
ever becoming popular. We have increased our department, built the grandest and best adapted 
house, 150 feet long by 25 feet wide, and appropriated nearly an additional acre of ground 
to grow old stools that we had cut down early before dowering, which we have now taken up with 
large balls of earth, and are giving us valuable, early, and first-rate cuttings that give more 
than satisfaction. We only intend to purchase from the principal growers, who have a knowledge 
of what is wanted, and of others that can be relied npon. Seedlings are raised as readily as Zonal 
Pelargoniums, and the world can be swamped with many that are not nearly so good as our older 
kinds. Wheu good ones are obtained, they ought to command double what they have hitherto 
done to make them worth venturing large sums of money. Even some of those that have been 
cultivated by the greatest experts, in our opinion, will not be heard of again. We only intend to 
introduce those that will become standing varieties, like those we have hitherto put in commerce, 
giving us a great reputation for the best varieties sent out by any firm. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM CUTTINGS. 
We have adopted quite a new system for the supply of cuttings, which we are sure will be 
much more satisfactory to the purchasers, and far more successful than those supplied in the 
usual way from plants which have stood close together with their long drawn-up cuttings, and 
often from those not very healthy, whose colours have been strained to the utmost. 
We now plant out our stock of young plants first week in May in the open ground, and cut them 
down the end of September, then lift them with large balls of earth and plant them in our earth- 
stage, close against the glass. They soou begin to throw up quantities of cuttings of a short sturdy 
nature, quite different to those from exhibition plants, and the difference is such that all growers who 
have seen our two houses, 100 ft. each, full of these roots, would decide never to grow from the 
over- worked old stools again. 
LARGE-FLOWERING INCURVED VARIETIES. 
FOR OCT BLOOMS. 
Those varieties marked with a (*) are those that have been exhibited, and were amongst the 
winning classes at the principal shows throughout England. All those with a (f) are the best for 
exhibition specimen plants. (J) In the Japanese, those that flower in the latter part of September 
and early part of October, (a) Raised and sent out by H. C. & Sons. 
ABBOTT’S WHITE (Inc.) — Pure 
white ; a great acquisition ; sure to become a 
general favourite. Is. 
ALFRED LYNE — Lilac, a sport from 
Novelty. Is. 
1. AUREUM MULTIFLORUM — Very 
bright pure yellow ; fine front row flower. 
2. *|ANTO NELLI — Salmon-orange. 
3. AREGINA, syn. INNER TEMPLE— 
Magenta crimson ; distinct. 
4. AMI HOSTE — Deep buff, striped 
yellow, shaded violet-carmine ; large deep flower, 
smooth petals. Is. 
5. ‘ANGELINA, syn. PRESIDENT SAN- 
DERSON — Golden amber, shaded cinnamon ; 
fine exhibition flower. 
6. ‘ALFRED SALTER — Deep rosy pink ; 
large and fine. 
7. *ABBil PASSAGLIA — Brassy amber : 
fine front row flower, 
8. ‘BEAUTY— Delicate blnsh. 
9. BEAUTY OF HULL (sport from Mr 
Bunn). ■ — There are two sports, this being dis- 
tinct from one called Mr. Shoesmith. It has a 
much lighter and brighter ground colour, witli a 
bronze stripe up each petal, distinct and telling; 
finely incurved flowers of a good shape, one 
of the best front row flowers. 
10. ‘fBARBARA — Rich bright golden yellow. 
11. BLONDE BEAUTY— White, tipped 
pale rose. 
12. ‘BRONZE JARDIN DES PLANTES 
— Bronze and yellow. 
13. ‘BARON BEUST, syn. BERNARD 
P ALLIS Y — Red chestnut, tipped with gold. 
14. *tBEVERLEY — Creamy white, broad in- 
curved florets of fine form. 
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