November 15,1868. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUM AVALANCHE. 
This remarkably handsome pure white Japanese variety was brought 
into notice by Messrs. H. Canned & Sons, Swanley, last year. Mr. E. 
Molyneux secure! plants, and some of the finest blooms yet shown have 
been from the Swanmore Park garden, one of these being represented in 
the illustration (fig. 51). That its merits quickly became recognised by 
cultivators is proved by the fact that it obtained a place in the National 
Society’s catalogue select list. The blooms are pure white, large, full 
and rounded, the florets very substantial, straight, or slightly drooping 
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many growers to undertake its culture. Most of the varieties Messrs. 
H. Canned & Sons sent out last year have obtained a good position on 
the boards, but that best and most frequently shown is Edwin Moly- 
neux, which, in the tabulated lists and analysis, may be expected to take 
the foremost position amongst the recent introductions. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM PRINCESS OF WALES. 
The voting .as t ibulated on page 10 of the National Society’s cata¬ 
log re places this very fine variety in a not very favourable position. 
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Fig. 51.—CHRYSANTHEMUM AVALANCHE. 
In mature blooms, some being split at the edges. The finest bloom we 
Jiave seen was that from Mr. E. Molyneux, certificated at Southampton 
on the 1st inst., this being 7 inches in diameter and 5 inches deep, it 
has also been certificated at several other shows, including Kingston and 
toe Crystal Palace, the bloom at the last named place being exhibited 
by Mr. Packman. As an exhibition variety it will undoubtedly take a high 
place, as the samples shown this year will be sufficient inducement to 
here are eight places in a list of thirty-six varieties which are so arranged 
iat those which received an equal number of votes are bracketed to- 
‘ther Ten varieties occupy the second position in the list, whereas 
rincessof Wales is bracketed with three others only, and these only 
oderate companions, one of them particularly so-\enus. Seldom 
deed is a good or even a modeiate bloom of this variety staged, as 
>od blooms go nowadays, while Princess of Wales is by many regarded 
