October 22, 189L ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
349 
acquisition. Furthei experience this year has to some extent confirmed 
this view, but the chief defect seems to be its earliness. At the recent 
meetiDgof the National Chrysanthemum Society several exhibitors had 
good blooms of it, and if it is expected to be at its best in the middle of 
a trifle too faithfully depicted in the wood engraving (fig. 71). This 
was prepared from one of the handsome blooms shown by Mr. Shoesmith 
at the meeting in question, and for which a first-class certificate was 
awarded. The colour is described as “carmine rose shaded cerise,’ it 
October it would not be of much service for the ordinary shows during 
November. Fortunately we have seen plants that are likely to develope 
their blooms about the right time, so that it will stand a chance of being 
fairly tested. The florets are broad, and the blooms become of a great 
s’ze, very solid, but somewhat wanting in refinement, and this is perhaps 
a soft, distinct shade, and the upper surface is of a much richer 
Bouquet de Dame.— A stand of six magnificent blooms of the 
ite Japanese Bouquet de Dame was shown by Mr. Peter Blair, 
mtham Gardens, and a first-class certificate was readily outlined. 
