'A' ,] oa bt about their being correctly named — wo have live houses (100 feet, each) specially for them 
C* to develop their hlooms. At the proper season we have a display consisting of all the best and 
most distinct kinds, which forms unquestionably the finest and most complete collection of this 
family ever brought together, and will, of course, include, like all our collections of florist flowers, 
the original species to the latest new and improved kinds. For comparison, throughout November, 
this will be found an opportunity such ns has never before been offered to lovers of this genus. 
C ANNELLS’ SYSTEM OF 
STAGING CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR EXHIBITION. 
Dormillon Borneo d'Or. J. Dtlaux. Fail Maid of Guomsey. La Chinois. Pot** the Oreat. 
M. AHtorc. Flummo do Punch Mdm-. deSevin. Comte do Germiny. Comtesse <le M. larm. 
jlouoiiet Fait. 'i’riomniie do la Rue Thunherg. Agrdinento de ia Boauregard. . Criterion. 
dee Chalets. , Nature. Madame 0. Audiguier. 
We long promised to introduce a new way of putting up cut hlooms of Chrysanthemums for 
Exhibition, hut, of course, saitl all, such a way would never look well, but admitted that it would 
be worth trying, and also said he would be a bSltl fellow who dared to venture in public with a 
departure from the ordinary and original style. We determined, therefore, to present six boxes, 
feet long, 18 inches wide, as per engraving above, before the Floral Committee at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and to our delight and surprise before we had completed staging the flowers, 
all our Floricultural critics spoke aloud that our new system was the right and proper one, and there 
and then unanimously resolved that we should be presented with the Gold Medal — but we never got 
it probably from the scarcity of material to make it. 
Shirley Hibbard, Esq., Gardeners' Magazine, speaks thus:— “ At the meeting of the Floral 
Committee, Messrs. Cannell & Sons showed a lot of cut flowers of all the sections mounted on 
green moss in the manner of roses. About nine-tenths of the cultivators of these flowers would 
find it impossible to follow the excellent example, but the practical lesson has its value, for if green 
moss is not everywhere obtainable there may lie some suitable substitutes in the world that town 
amateurs could secure for the purpose. For the present we must jog trot with our green hoards, 
and keep the green moss in mind as a pleasant thing to dream about.'’ 
Exhibition blooms cannot he supplied. 
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