April 19, 1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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or chapel may be found some special feature that may be so far worth 
preserving as to merit full exposure; but generally a clothing of Ivy or 
some climber becomes a cloak that covers a multitude of architectural 
baldness. Ever since gardening has been known, apparently, have 
the habits of climbers in Nature been copied and utilised to beautify 
objects humanly erected that garden taste will not only never die, 
but will increase just as our range of house climbers is added to. 
The introduction of Ampelopsis Veitchi gave a great impulse to this 
form of gardening, and it is now perhaps the widest grown of climbers 
in the world.—A. D, 
The Leeds Paxtok Society’s Chrysanthemum Show. 
We are informed that the annual Exhibition of the above Society 
will be held in the Town Hall, Leeds, on November 6tb and 7th, 1894. 
Chrysanthemum Mdlle. Marie Cordonnier. 
“Le Jardin,” a Paris fortnightly horticultural journal which rarely 
gives its subscribers a coloured plate, has in its current number given 
an illustration of a new Chrysanthemum bearing the above name. It is 
a large, bold flower, measuring fully 8 inches across, very double, with 
grooved florets of medium width. The colour appears to be a bright 
shade of crimson amaranth with a gold reverse, and the plant has been 
grown according to our exhibition method of three or four blooms on a 
plant, which is not a common one in France, although that system is 
now more popular than it was a few years ago. We are not told the 
raiser’i name, but it is offered for sale by M. Louis Dalld, who exhibited 
it for the first time at the autumn Show of the National Horticultural 
Society of France in 1892. The lady after whom it is named is the 
daughter of Mr. Anatole Cordonnier of Roubaix, a well-known French 
enthusiast in Grape and Chrysanthemum growing. 
Italian Chrysanthemums. 
In the spring of 1892 an Italian nurseryman at Florence announced 
for sale a set of new seedling Chrysanthemums, comprising forty 
varieties raised from Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, Edwin Molyneux, Edouard 
Audiguier, Pelican, Mme. Hoste, and others, all of which were 
introduced into England by some of our trade growers. Of these in the 
following autumn but few were to be found worthy of notice, Principe 
de Trabia, a large long-petalled Japanese of a wine coloured rose, being 
perhaps the best; Conte Ottaviano da Porto, a white incurved kind, 
was attractive, although possessing no special merit when compared 
with others of that type already grown here. From two other Italian 
growers sets of seedlings were also received, but it appears doubtful 
whether they ever came into prominent notice, for I cannot trace any 
mention of them in my notes for the seasons of 1892 and 1893. 
Simon Delaux in a recent catalogue also enumerates others, which he 
describes as the Italian novelties of 1893, but none of these seem to have 
been introduced into this country as jet. The probability is that our 
English nurserymen have quite enough to do with importing the 
French and American sorts, among which they do find a fair percentage 
of new flowers worthy of attention, and thus have not paid particular 
regard to the novelties from Italy. Among my catalogues for the 
present spring I have received one from a firm at Milan offering 
fourteen varieties of seedling Chrysanthemums for distribution, and as 
these will be purchased and grown by one of our eminent specialists in 
Chrysanthemum cultivation there may be a chance of finding something 
interesting and novel among them when they flower in the autumn. 
Excellent, however, as they may possibly be, it seems that we are 
being considerably overdone by our friend the intelligent foreigner. 
Old and New Chrysanthemums. 
Mr. W. H. Lees, on page 133, strikes a keynote that will find an 
echo in the minds of many of us who have known the Chrysanthemum 
for the period he mentions. What, however, is the most curious fact 
concerning the popular show varieties of 1883 as compared with those 
of 1893 is this, that many of the former had a much longer life in those 
days that the best ones have now. Thus at the date he mentions Fair 
Maid of Guernsey, Madame C. Audiguier, Soleil Levant, Marguerite 
Marroucb, Baronne de Frailly, M. Ard^ne. Peter the Great, Cry Kang, 
Sarnia, Grandiflorum striatum, Elaine, Triomphe du Nord, Mdlle. 
Moolis, Ethel, and Oracle, were all raised in the previous decade or 
before, and were therefore in some cases ten, fifteen and even twenty 
years old when shown. In the list of elected varieties recently pub¬ 
lished in the Journal as the best now-a-days only very few in com¬ 
parison were raised between 1880 and 1889, and those mostly towards the 
close of that period. Without verifying each name separately, for my 
memory serves me fairly well in this matter, Vi viand Morel, Edwin 
Molyneux, Mdlle. Marie Hoste, Sunflower, Etoile de Lyon, Stanstead 
White, W. H. Lincoln, Avalanche, Mrs. F. Jameson, Beauty of Castle- 
wood, Puritan, Miss A. Hartshorn, Mrs. C. Wheeler, Boule d’Or, M. 
Bernard, Alberic Lunden, W. W. Coles, M. E. A. CarnAre, Coronet, and 
perhaps half a dozen more are the oldest out of all those named. 
Hardly any of them could be considered more than five years old last 
season, and if we except Boule d’Or and M. Bernard there was certainly 
none of ten years’ standing. The remainder, which form by far the 
larger proportion, are only of two or three seasons’ standing. 
There is, as Mr. Lees seems to fear, every reason for supposing that 
the leading Japanese show flowers of 1893 will be practically extinct in 
1903. New and capable raisers are annually coming into the keenest 
competition possible with the old ones. Names that were once familiar 
to us as eminent growers of seedlings are unheard of now, and whether 
for better or for worse the best twenty-four Japanese are never likely to 
remain the same for any length of time while the flower offers so wide 
a scope for their skill as it does at present. When raisers, other than 
English, can appreciate the merits and quality of the incurved section 
we may possibly see another revolution in the cultivation of this protean 
flower.—P. 
List of Dwarf Chrysanthemums. 
It is not possible to make a long list of white-flowered varieties suit¬ 
able for blooming in masses, and at the same time to exclude Pompons, 
and still be limited to 2^ feet in height. “ B. J.” (page 277) does not say 
in what manner the plants are to be grown so as to restrict them to the 
height stipulated. If on the non-topping plan the list will be a very 
short one indeed. By removing the point of each shoot about twice 
during the season the plants could be so managed that several really 
good and free-flowering varieties may be included under this category. 
Certainly they would not grow beyond 3 feet, assuming, of course, that 
the cultural details are carried out in a proper manner. With a view, 
therefore, of imparting more information, 1 have divided my list into two 
sections—viz., those that naturally do not grow beyond 2^ feet, and 
those who can be kept about 3 feet by manipulating the branches. 
“ B. J.” says “ not Pompons,” but I must break through these 
instructions slightly with a view to include one variety, Sceur Melanie, 
which is excellent for producing white flowers in abundance. Varieties 
of 2J feet are Madame C. Desgranges, Lady Fitzwygram, La Vierge, 
Mdlle. Leom Lassali, Grace Attick, Madame Gastellier, and Mons. 
Gustave Grunerwald. Varieties under the topping method would 
include Florence Davis, Mrs. G. Bundle, Avalanche, Lady Selborne, 
Madame Mezzard, Eynsford White, Mdlle. Lacroix, Princess Blanche, 
and Bouquet des Dames.—E. Molyneux. 
Mr. Molyneux’s Book. 
When Mr. E. Molyneux first issued his treatise on growing and 
showing Chrysanthemums in 1886 it met, as might be expected at the 
close of his successful exhibiting career, with a prompt welcome. The 
popularity it so soon won has been abundantly maintained, and oft 
recurring editions became requisite to meet the constant demand. While 
all that was good in the original has been retained, something has been 
added to subsequent issues, until the last edition, the eighth, bulks out 
to 122 pages. This contains the author’s estimate of the latest new 
varieties, and is thus, as he says, brought “ up to date.” Having regard 
to quality and quantity, few will question the proposition that Mr. 
Molyneux gives good value for money in his popular shillingsworth. 
It is, however, the way of the world to expect those who give much to 
give more, and we know some of the worldlings would like to have a 
good index. The want is apparent in another popular manual that is 
always selling, and if the critic who pronounced what he considered a 
fitting doom for the author who produced a book without an index 
could have his way, Messrs. Molyneux and Wright would be hung forth¬ 
with. But they are safe, for the critic is gone, and we now live in 
humanitarian days. 
Canons of Chrysanthemum Judging—Attributes. 
I NOTE the reference (page 277) to my opinion, expressed some years 
ago, in regard to the Wrightian system of judging Chrysanthemums. 
The opinion then expressed is my opinion to-day—the imperfections of 
all human schemes and “ up-to-date ” ideas being understood. I have 
used the system every year upon all occasions when requisite up to the 
present time, and this not only in judging Chrysanthemums, but collec¬ 
tions of vegetables as well as cottage and allotment gardens, with most 
satisfactory results since 1887. 
In reference to the “attributes” to be kept in mind when judging, 
I am of opinion that depth and solidity must go before mere diameter. 
Diameter without proportionate depth is mediocrity, and very common. 
Incurved. 
Depth and solidity . 
Diameter ... 
Purity of colour and symmetry 
Breadth of floret. 
3 points 
2 
2 
1 
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Japanese. 
Depth and fulness . 
Colour and freshness . 
Diameter. 
8 
3 points 
8 
It will be observed that I substantially agree with Mr. Wright’s 
“ formulae ” of attributes, and I doubt if he will differ very much from 
my slight modification.—J. Udale. 
