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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ September 3, 1885. 
place the schedule of prizes was not arranged in a similar way to 
ours, and was divided into classes in the following manner :— 
First section, pot plants.—Group 1.—For the best seedling 
variety or varieties not yet in commerce. 
Second section, group 2.—For the best and largest collection 
comprising all kinds. 
Second section, group 3.—For the finest collection of 100 select 
varieties. 
Second section, group 4. —For the finest collection of forty select 
varieties. 
Second section, group 5. —For the finest Japanese collection. 
Third section.—Cut flowers. 
Third section, group 6.—For the finest and largest collection com¬ 
prising all kinds. 
Third section, group 7.—For the finest collection of 100 select 
kinds. 
Third section, group 8.—For the finest collection of fifty select 
kinds. 
Third section, group 9.—For the finest collection of Japanese 
varieties. 
Fourth section.—Objects of artistic culture and decoration. 
Fourth section, group 10.—For bouquets, baskets, &c., made up 
with Chrysanthemums. 
Fourth section, group 11.—For the best treatise on the Chrysan¬ 
themum. 
At this Exhibition nearly every French amateur and professional 
raiser of any standing in the horticultural world took part, and a 
banquet brought the proceedings to a close. It is curious to note that 
the cut flowers, which numbered 3000, instead of being exhibited in 
boxes or show boards, were shown in glass bottles, and so great a stir 
did the Show create in the town that the local floricultural journal de¬ 
voted upwards of five pages to the event. There was also a subvention 
granted by the Municipal Council of the town, a precedent that if 
acted upon in this country would gladden the hearts of many a 
grower here. As a consequence of this the Chalons Horticultural 
Society appointed a Special Committee to organise and conduct an 
international plebiscite in favour of the Chrysanthemum, and some 
of the English growers were invited to take part in it, but the result 
like that held in this country in 1883 can hardly be regarded as an 
entirely satisfactory or useful one from an exhibitor’s point of view. 
It may prove of some little interest to point out that the Committee 
in conducting the ballot issued voting papers to the leading 
cultivators, in which not more than fifty varieties were to be named. 
The papers on their return were examined by the Committee, and the 
fifty varieties which received the largest number of votes were 
selected and arranged in the relative order. The result was as 
follows :— 
Triomphe de la Rue des Chalets 
Erectum Superbum 
Gloire Rayonnanta 
Source d’Or 
Laciniatum 
Pair Maid of Guernsey 
M. Planchenau 
Bras Rouge 
M. Fr6my 
Madame Clemence Audiguier 
Yellow Dragon 
La Charmeuse 
La Frisure 
Souvenir de la Reine Mercedes 
La Vierge 
Pink Perfection 
L’Automne 
Sceur Melanie 
Marguerite Marrouch 
Perle des Beautds 
Fde Rageuse 
Pere Delaux 
L’lle des Plaisirs 
Timbale d’Argent 
Belle Paule 
William Bull 
In America during the last year or two the Chrysanthemum may 
be said to have created quite a furore, and our Yankee cousins seem 
bent upon vieing with the Europeans in their appreciation of it. 
There does not appear to be any authentic record of the date of the 
introduction of this plant into the States, but it is said that it was un¬ 
doubtedly known there in 1825, and there are many varieties now 
growing in the gardens in Long Island that have been there for 
upwards of half a century, and are much similar to the varieties 
before described in the early part of this treatise. Several florists, both 
amateur and professional, in that great country have raised and dis¬ 
tributed new varieties from seed, among whom may be mentioned 
Dr. Wallcott and Mr. Thorpe. Owing to the 'great distance, 
however, that they are from the centre of the Chrysanthemum grow¬ 
ing world is in all probability one reason why they have sent out 
some kinds but little valued by those who have grown them in 
Europe, for although the author has had no opportunity of seeing 
these American productions he learns from both French and English 
sources that the American varieties leave much to be desired. 
This spring another American, Mr. W. K. Harris, is sending out 
for the first time five new kinds, which may in due course be 
catalogued in the English growers' lists, and for that reason it is un¬ 
necessary to give their descriptions, and those of the other two 
gentlemen above referred to. Mr. Harris has named his plants 
Christmas Eve, Mrs. Vannaman, White Dragon, Golden Queen, and 
W. L. Scheffer. Mr. H. Waterer, an importer of plants and bulbs in 
the States, announces the offer of twenty-five incurved and Japanese 
varielies selected in China and Japan, and which bloomed for the 
first time in that country last season. 
If any proof be required that the Chrysanthemum is still as 
popular as it ever was, and that the love of it has not yet begun to 
abate, the author can point out instances where tiny plants only 
2 or 3 inches high of new varieties have in the early part of this 
year teen distributed by the raisers at the unusually high price of £1 
each, a sum perhaps never yet paid for a plant of the Chrysanthemum. 
And, further, Messrs. Cannell & Sods have received direct from Japan 
200 Chrysanthemums, besides the usual complement from the Conti¬ 
nental raisers. Mr. N. Davis reports that he has under trial more 
than 120 distinct new sorts, while the French send out among them 
145 varieties of Japanese, Pompon, 6ummer-flowering, and other 
kinds, all of which they represent to be new and distinct. So great 
is the demand for our favourite flower that there are nurserymen who 
devote in some cases the whole, and in others a large part, of their 
establishments solely to its culture and the testing of the novelties 
that appear from time to time, at many of which the lover of the 
Chrysanthemum is invited to attend when the blooming season 
arrives. 
Before concluding it may not be entirely useless to give the 
reader a list of some of the nurserymen who pay special attention to 
the growing of the Chrysanthemum, and at the same time it must be 
borne in mind that plants may be purchased of many others who are, 
of course, quite as well deserving of notice, but with whom the author 
is unacquainted, and more ignorant as to the extent of their business 
in this particular branch. 
Mr. W. E. Boyce, Yerbury Road, Holloway, N. ; Mr. Wm. Bull, 
King’s Road, Chelsea ; Messrs. Cannell & Sons, Swanlev, Kent ; Mr. 
N. Davis, Lilford Road Nurseries, Camberwell, S.E. ; Messrs. Dixon 
and Co., The Amhurst Nurseries, Hackney, E.; Mr. Wm. Etherington, 
Manor House, Swanscombe, Kent ; Messrs. T. Jackson & Sons, 
Kingston, Surrey ; Messrs. Laing & Co., Forest Hill, S.E. ; 
Messrs. Mahood & Sons, Putney ; Messrs. J. Morse & Sons, Dursley, 
Gloucestershire ; Mr. T. B. Morton, Mouden Bridge Nursery, Darling¬ 
ton ; Mr. R. Owen, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead ; Mr. W. Piercy, Forest 
Hill, S.E. ; Mr. G. Stevens, St. John’s Nursery, Putney ; Mr. C. 
Turner, The Royal Nurseries, Slough ; Messrs. Veitch & Sons, 
King's Road, Chelsea ; Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, Totten¬ 
ham.—C. Harman Payne. 
FRUIT TREES IN POTS. 
Some persons fail, others succeed in growing fruit trees in pots 
satisfactorily. Mr. George Hawkins, gardener to Col. T. P. Turberville, 
Ewenny Priory, Bridgend, is one who succeeds. We have seen examples 
of his skill on more than one occasion. The last was the fruiting spray 
of Peaches figured, but necessarily much reduced. The fruit was very 
fine indeed, and the foliage equally so. The grower of the fruit writes as 
follows :— 
“ We have two small orchard houses, and grow over ninety trees in 
pots. The back wall of our lean-to house is also covered with trees, and 
two Vines occupy part of the roof. I think there is no other way in 
which so many fruits can be had and so many varieties grown, so as lo 
insure a long season, as having trees in pots. I should advise anyone 
who may have two houses to devote one to such trees. Half a hundred 
of my trees can be grown in a small house, as the early ones when 
gathered are turned out, and the later ones given a little more room, 
and so on. Cherries come out very early. When all the fruit is gathered 
the trees can be turned out and the house filled with Chrysanthemums. 
I have this year gathered 140 Nectarines from one tree in a pot of Rivers’ 
Orange, 100 off one tree of Pine Apple, and 100 Peaches from one of 
Rivers’ Early York. Sixteen-inch pots are the largest used, and but very 
few of them. We get our trees from Mr. Rivers. I never saw Mr. 
Rivers or yet the Sawbridgeworth nurseries, but if I ever have a chance 
to see them I expect something worth the journey. 
“ My method of culture is very simple. The trees are repotted annually 
Royal Soleil 
Perle des Blanches 
M. Moussillac 
Marechal Soult 
M. Roux 
Richard Larios 
Alexandre Dufour 
Fabian de Mddiana 
M. Crousse 
LTnfante d’Espagne 
Dr. Audiguier 
Flamme de Punch 
Aimd Ferriere 
L’lncomparable 
Reine Margot 
M. Delaux 
M. Castex 
Empress of India 
Patrie 
Mdlle. Cabrol 
Lady Selborne 
M. Elie 
Dr. Masters 
M. Astorg 
M. Patrolin 
