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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ February 16, 18&3. 
John H. Taylor. 
This variety is described by Mr. John Thorpe in the Chrys¬ 
anthemum number of the “ American Florist,” November, 1892, as an 
early variety, and specially marked as such, not late. Amongst the best 
late varieties mentioned in “ American Gardening ” this variety is 
omitted by Mr. John H. Taylor. I attribute its lateness of flowering to 
late importation.— Importer. 
Faversham and District Chrysanthemum Association. 
Knowing the wide circulation your paper possesses I beg to 
inform you that this Association at a committee meeting held on the 
10th inst. took steps to modify the conditions of their “ Kent County 
Competition,” referred to on page 116. They do not, however, see their 
way to do without the Keflexed varieties entirely, so have modified it 
thus—twelve blooms each Japanese and Incurved, distinct, and twelve 
Keflexed of not less than nine varieties.—C. E. Clinch. 
National Chrysanthemum Society. 
A meeting of the General Committee was held on Monday last 
at Andertun’s Hotel, Fleet Street. Mr. R. Ballantine occupied the 
chair, being supported by an excellent attendance of members and 
officials. 
The minutes of the former meeting being disposed of, Mr. R. Dean 
(the Secretary) announced that Sir Edwin Saunders could not con¬ 
veniently preside at the annual general meeting, and it was thereupon 
moved by the Chairman that one of the Vice-Presidents be asked to 
fulfil that duty. Mr. H. R. Williams of Hornsey will probably be the 
one to undertake it. 
The sum of 2 guineas was voted to the Beanfeast Fund of the 
employes of the Royal Aquarium in accordance with the usual custom, 
and a letter from the Secretary of the Aquarium Company was read 
confirming the fixtures for the current year’s exhibitions. 
The Secretary presented a rough sketch of the annual report, which 
was approved, and will be laid before the members at the annual meeting 
next Monday. From the Secretary’s statement it would appear that a 
balance will remain in hand far exceeding that of previous years. 
The following Societies were admitted in affiliation : — Dalkey, 
Killiney, and Glenagnary Chrysanthemum Society, the Rugby Society, 
and the East London Amateur Chrysanthemum Society, and fifteen new 
members were elected. 
Mr. Earland, whose frozen blooms were awarded a medal last 
autumn, in acknowledging its receipt, referred to his work in that 
colony, and his expectations of New Zealand saved seed producing a 
very high percentage of good double flowers. He also promised to send 
over a further instalment at no distant date. It was mentioned that 
the cash subscribed to the special prize fund for 1893 now amounted to 
upwards of £128, in addition to which were, several important special 
prizes of medals offered by Mr. Jukes, and a cup by Major Collis 
Browne. The affiliation scheme appears to be bearing good fruit, for at 
the present time there are exactly 100 Chrysanthemum and Horticultural 
Societies at home and abroad on the list. 
Mr. Jukes, in calling attention to the annual meeting, reminded the 
members that there would probably be a large attendance and a good 
deal of business to be done. He hoped the Committee, who were really 
the working members of the Society, would all be present, and that 
country members would likewise muster in good numbers. 
Increased Size of Stands. 
Sadoc ” (page 116) fears I do not realise the full benefits that 
would accrue from the use of a larger board. He then goes on to give 
a reason that is almost an echo of a case in point I made (page 76), and 
that “ S.” so ably dealt with (page 96) namely—that if a larger board 
was made “compulsory” the judges would be able to arrive at an 
accurate estimate of the merits of each particular stand with ease, and 
that without doing the amount of damage that is now so often a pro¬ 
minent feature of our shows. It is in the word “ compulsory” that the 
gist of it all lies ; without it, there is, and ever will be, as “ D.” puts 
it, “chaos.” 
What sane man, who has the welfare and improvement of the 
Chrysanthemum at heart, would dream of proposing an optional 
decrease in the size of stands for incurved blooms on the score of the 
present size board being too large for some of the growers of smaller 
blooms? Yet that is what the question of an “optional” increase in 
the size of stands for Japanese resolves itself into. Moreover, the 
problem will become more and more difficult of solution each year, for 
England has far from reached the zenith of her fame in giant Chrys¬ 
anthemum raising ; in fact, she has only just awoke to the importance 
of it, and we may rest assured it will not be “ as you were ” when she 
has had her fling. 
My suggestion is, that where societies find their tabling space limited 
they should institute smaller classes, and ask for all distinct ; for 
instance, “ thirty-six Japanese distinct,” would be equally or more 
representative than forty-eight with duplicates allowed. Or in the 
case of smaller classes, “ eighteen distinct ” against twenty-four with 
duplicates. There would then be no extra tabling needed.—H. Brown, 
BeaureiJaire. 
Sheffield Chrysanthemum Society. 
The annual dinner of the Sheffield Chrysanthemum Society took 
place at the Clarence Hotel, High Street, on February 8th. About 
sixty members, delegates, and friends were present. Mr. John Haigh 
occupied the chair, supported by Mr. B. G. Simpson as Vice-President, 
Mr. W. Housley (Secretary), Mr. H. Broomhead (Treasurer), Mr. J. G. 
Newsham, Mr. H. C. Robinson, Mr. R. H. Laughton, and others. 
Delegates were present from Wakefield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Rotherham, 
also from local horticultural societies. Letters of apology were received 
from C. E. Jeffcock, Esq , the President, Mark Firth, Esq., ex-President, 
the Mayor (Aid. Batty Langley), and G. Senior, Esq. 
On the conclusion of an excellent repast, the toast of “The Queen 
and Royal Family ” was proposed by the Chairman, who took the 
opportunity to refer to the honour conferred by the Queen in raising 
Sheffield to the status and dignity of a city. The toast was drunk with 
enthusiasm. The toast of the “ Chrysanthemum Society ” was proposed 
by Mr. J. Smith of Rotherham, who congratulated the members on the 
excellent show held in November, and stating that they in Rotherham 
were endeavouring to imitate them. 
The Chairman acknowledged the toast, and spoke of the advance 
made in the cultivation of Chrysanthemums. Progress was still going 
on in the size and quality of blooms which could be produced. Some 
of the leading authorities had found it necessary to increase the size of 
the exhibition boards. The aim of the Society was to make their exhi¬ 
bition a credit to the city and a powerful means of spreading instruction 
and interest in the growth of Chrysanthemums. So long as the public 
upheld them, as they appeared to be doing, the members of the Society 
would be willing to cater for their benefit and delight. 
“The Visitors and Kindred Societies” was proposed by Mr. Housley 
and responded to by Mr. Taylor (Rotherham Society), and Mr. R. H. 
Laughton (Walkley Society). 
Hairy Chrysanthemums. 
The short note by “ Sadoc ” in the Journal for the 26th ult. (page 76) 
reminds me of the very decided tendency on the part of seedling growers 
to keep the ball rolling in whatever direction the Chrysanthemum may 
take. The latest departure in new Chrysanthemums is certainly the 
development of hairy-petalled varieties, and if the demand for them be 
at all worthy of attention we may be sure that large numbers of novel¬ 
ties in this new section will be forthcoming. The pliability of the 
Chrysanthemum is one of the chief reasons of its present popularity, for 
it seems we have only to ask for what we want, and in a season or two 
the want is supplied by ingenious florists either in Europe or America. 
Five years ago Mrs. Alpheus Hardy was first announced in the 
American press, and a wonderful, though perhaps undeserved, stir it made. 
Louis Boehmer followed, then W. A. Manda and H. Ballantine. Last 
season Enfant des Deux Mondes was put into commerce by a Conti¬ 
nental grower, and I may remind “ Sadoc ” that it is because this is a 
variety raised in France that it bears a foreign name. We can hardly 
expect French florists to give purely English names to their gains any 
more than the French can expect us to give French names to our new 
seedlings. 
A Belgian correspondent, in a recent letter, informs me that he has 
raised from seed imported from the Imperial Gardens at Tokio a hairy 
variety of the Louis Boehmer type, but of a deep crimson colour, with¬ 
out, however, mentioning the name he intends to give to it. There is 
also a blush sport, which I have not yet seen, from Louis Boehmer 
called William Falconer, and at Camberwell there is another of the 
same parentage bearing the name Queen of the Hirsutes, and this is 
described as a ruby crimson coloured flower. I saw a bloom some time 
since ; but it was one from a lateral growth, and was lighter than I 
should describe as ruby crimson. Crimson-amaranth seemed to me to 
be more appropriate ; but verbal descriptions of colours in flowers are 
always open to question. 
In an American catalogue recently to hand I observe a new yellow 
hairy variety called Zambesi, which does not yet appear to have made 
its way to this side of the Atlantic. It is reported to be an American 
seedling not synonymous with W. A. Manda, partaking of W. H. Lincoln 
in colour, with foliage resembling Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. 
A further addition is promised from M. de Reydellet this year. 
Mdme. Ferdinand Cayeux, a pomegranate red, also raised from Louis 
Boehmer, was described by M. Godefroy Lebeuf in a recent issue of 
Le Jardin. M. Simon Delaux, the indefatigable raiser in the south of 
France, announces the distribution of several others this spring, so that 
the lovers of this new class of Chrysanthemum will soon be in a position 
to set up a good representative board of hairy varieties. Synonyms 
already look like being multiplied in this new class, for two of them 
have by some means acquired a second name. 
Although the original variety came from Japan the hairy section 
appears to be limited in that country. A Japanese catalogue received 
last spring contains the names of only six varieties in cultivation there, 
and most of those can be approximately identified with the kinds now 
commonly cultivated in England. 
It does not appear that the tendency to hairiness is inherent, for a 
correspondent in the States tells me that out of thirty seedlings raised 
from Mrs. Alpheus Hardy a few seasons since not one showed the least 
sign of that peculiarity.—C. H. P. 
