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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
January 25, 1894. 
J. Laing, now eight years old. Such facts as these show the 
great advance made in the Japanese family during the last ten years. 
Votes fob Twenty-four Japanese Varieties in Order of Merit. 
42 Vi viand Morel 
42 Edwin Molyneux 
42 Col. W. B. Smith 
40 Mdlle. Marie Hoste 
40 Charles Davis 
40 G. C. Schwabe 
38 Mdlle. Th^r^se Rey 
38 Sunflower 
34 Florence Davis 
33 Etoile de Lyon 
33 Stanstead White 
32 W. Seward 
29 Lord Brooke 
29 Robert Owen 
28 W. H. Lincoln 
27 Mrs. C. H. Payne 
27 W, Tricker 
27 Avalanche 
23 Mrs. F. Jameson 
22 Golden Wedding 
20 Excelsior 
16 President Borel 
15 Miss Dorothy Shea 
14 Mrs. E. W. Clark 
14 J. Shrimpton 
13 Eda Prass 
12 Beauty of Castlewood 
11 Puritan 
11 Boule d’Or 
10 Miss A. Hartshorn 
10 G. W. Childs 
10 Charles Blick 
9 Gloire du Rocher 
9 Mrs. C. Wheeler 
9 Waban 
8 Mons. Bernard 
7 W. H. Lincoln Improved 
7 J, S. Dibbens 
7 Princess May 
7 Silver King 
7 Mrs. E. D. Adams 
G Viscountess Hambledon 
5 Violet Rose 
5 Vice-President Audiguier 
5 Louise 
5 Duke of York 
5 Golden Gate 
Votes for a Stand 
42 Viviand Morel 
40 Edwin Molyneux 
37 Col. W. B. Smith 
36 Mdlle. Th^rese Rey 
30 Sunflower 
28 Charles Davis 
22 Stanstead White 
20 Etoile de Lyon 
18 G. C. Schwabe 
18 William Seward 
17 Florence Davis 
17 Robert Owen 
17 Mdlle. Marie Hoste 
12 Avalanche 
11 W.H. Lincoln 
10 Mrs. C. H. Payne 
10 W. Tricker 
8 Boule d’Or 
7 Excelsior 
7 G. W. Childs 
6 Mrs. C. Wheeler 
6 Golden Wedding 
6 W. H. Lincoln Improved 
6 Eda Prass 
5 Miss Dorothy Shea 
6 President Borel 
5 Lord Brooke 
4 Viscountess Hambledon 
4 Mons. Bernard 
4 Waban 
6 The Tribune 
5 Beauty of Exmouth 
4 C. Shrimpton 
4 Mrs. Beckett 
4 Le Verseau 
4 Alberic Lunden 
4 W. W. Coles 
3 Mdme. E. Rey 
3 M. E. A. Carri^re 
3 Primrose League 
2 Robert Flowerday 
2 Richard Dean 
2 R. C. Kingston 
2 Mdme. C. Molin 
2 Violetta 
2 Mrs. Seward (?) 
2 Elmer D. Smith 
2 Le Prince du Bois 
2 Col. Chase 
2 Mdme. Octavie Mirbeau 
1 International 
1 W. G. Newitt 
1 L’Isere 
1 Mrs. P. Blair 
1 Wilfred Marshall 
1 Rose Wynne 
1 Mrs. Bruce Findlay 
1 Cecil Wray 
1 Coronet 
1 Lilian B. Bird 
1 Mdme. Cambon 
1 AV. K. Woodcock 
1 Mrs. F. A. Spaulding 
1 Mrs. T. Denne 
1 Mr. E. G. Whittle 
1 Mdme. C. Audiguier 
1 Mr. G. Bryceson 
1 Mrs. A. Hardy 
1 Mrs. A. Jacobs 
1 Lizzie Cartledge 
1 Amos Perry 
1 Mrs. A. G. Hubbuck 
1 J. P. Kendall 
1 Mdme. J. Laing 
1 Sarah Owen 
1 M. Jules Toussaint 
Twelve Japane«e. 
3 Mrs. F. Jameson 
3 Miss A. Hart-^horn 
3 Mrs. E. D. Adams 
3 Beauty of Castlewood 
3 Mrs. E. W. Clarke 
2 Madame C. Molin 
2 Gloire du Rocher 
2 Madame Octavie Mirbeau 
2 Charles Blick 
2 The Tribune 
2 Louise 
2 Madame E. Rey 
2 Robert Flowerday 
2 Duke of York 
1 Golden Gate 
1 Mrs. E. G. Whittle 
1 Mrs. F. A. Spaulding 
1 Mr. G. Bryceson 
1 R. C. Kingston 
1 L’Isere 
1 Cecil Wray 
1 Mrs. T. Denne 
1 Col. Chase 
1 Beauty of Exmouth 
1 Silver King 
1 Princess May 
1 C. Shrimpton 
1 Elmer D. Smith 
1 Le Prince du Bois 
1 International 
The voters cover a wide area, thus rendering the selection so 
much more interesting. It is pleasing to find the leading Scotch 
cultivators taking part in the election. 
Mr. R. Parker writes: “I quite agree with you that anyone 
anxious to form a collection at the present time would feel very 
much at sea as to what they should leave out. A list drawn up as 
suggested will prove of great assistance.” 
Mr. Inglefield writes : “ It is a capital idea to publish such a 
list, and I shall be much interested in it myself.” 
Mr. E. Beckett says : “ I shall be very interested to see the 
returns, as I feel sure they will vary considerably.” 
Mr. C. E. Shea writes : “ In preparing the accompanying 
lists I have been guided by your expressed wish of rendering 
assistance to persons who are taking up the cultivation of the 
flower for the first time. It is obvious that there are many 
varieties which in a selection for an expert would be included in 
the lists, but which one could not recommend to the beginner.” 
Mr. D. Forbes says : “ I believe you are doing service both for 
young growers and old exhibitors. I hope the labour and trouble 
attending it may be appreciated by all Chrysanthemum growers.” 
Mr. J. Carruthers writes : “ We northern growers would be 
very glad to see your list extended to forty-eight varieties, as we 
seldom have an opportunity of seeing for ourselves the new sorts, 
consequently we are compelled to buy very much on chance.” 
Mr. Renford says : “ The Journal of Horticulture is rendering 
good service to those interested in Chrysanthemum culture in 
taking up such an important subject as the selection of varieties in 
the Japanese section.” 
Mr. G-. Carpenter writes : “ I think the idea a good one. I often 
feel quite in a fix what to procure in the way of novelty. Take 
Mr.-’s catalogue for instance ; I think it would even puzzle 
himself to make the best selection.” 
Mr. Rushton says: “I have pleasure in sending a list of Japanese 
Chrysanthemums most suitable for the north.” 
Mr. C. Orchard writes : “ It is a good idea to prepare such a 
selection as proposed, and must prove useful to growers in general, 
although no doubt you will receive a long list for tabulation.” 
Mr. Ritchings says : “ Such returns as is proposed must be 
serviceable to Chrysanthemum growers.” 
Mr. John Machar says : “ I shall anxiously look for the report 
of the election in the Journal of Horticulture^ for it will be interest¬ 
ing to all growers.”— Edwin Molyneux. 
[We desire to tender our best thanks to Mr. Molyneux and 
his able coadjutors in enabling us to publish the lists they have 
provided, and which will prove helpful to many. Mr. Carruthers 
will, we think, have no difficulty in choosing forty-eight varieties, 
as he appears to desire. If there should be a general wish that 
the individual selections be published we shall have no objection to 
inserting them. In order to test the matter we will have a little 
election on our own account. Let all readers who are in favour of 
the proposal say “ Yes ” on a postcard ; those who are not say 
“ No.” The majority shall decide. If the votes are in favour of 
publication the names of the electors will appear, unless we hear 
from any of them to the contrary, in which case their desire will be 
complied with.] 
HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS. 
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too,” is a quotation 
forcibly illustrated by the many proprietors of the smallest gardens 
aspiring to a greenhouse, and though not grudging the first cost, it 
is the subsequent doctoring required to keep badly constructed 
houses from collapse that is not agreeable. I will make no apology 
for commencing in the humble way of an amateur’s greenhouse, 
for it is in ratio to the garden what the palatial glass erections are 
to a nobleman’s establishment. The former may be a luxury, 
though the latter are now considered necessaries of the age we 
live in. 
When a child in the old home, amongst some old books long 
since disappeared, was a garden book by one Abercrombie, doubt¬ 
less a famous gardener of his time. In this book was detailed his 
triumph of producing a Cucumber for his employer’s table on 
Christmas Day, and how proud this old gardener must have been 
on receiving a specially engraved medal for his feat. Doubtless 
the world went very well then, though it was but the shadow of 
coming events. 
Happily for the amateur’s greenhouse whose requirements are 
practically limited to sheltering its inmates from the extremes of 
our variable climate, and not reproducing so many cubic feet of 
India or Central America, his troubles are reduced to a minimum ; 
but on the larger scale as stoves, forcing houses, and other names 
suggestive of the severe ordeal they have to undergo, they need 
good constitutions, and all thought that can be brought to bear 
on designing and building, to avoid as far as possible after 
annoyance. 
