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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 19, 1885. 
importance. Add to this the appliances in connection with 
forestry and horticulture, tools, machinery, structures, 
methods of heating and every adjunct in connection with 
woods and gardens, models of roots and fruits, cones, seeds, 
also zoological museums of beasts, birds, and insects as 
friends or enemies of the cultivator. Nor would we overlook 
the curiosities of vegetation. From the museums in this 
country, and with examples from foreign lands, we feel sure 
that a collection of objects of a very extraordinary nature 
could be arranged that would be a source of great attraction 
to visitors. 
With the same agency that has worked so effectively in 
producing the past exhibitions at South Kensington, at least 
equally great results might be achieved in carrying out this 
project. Through the Colonial and Foreign Offices every 
country would be reached, and every country would be ready 
to represent its staple industry obtained from vegetable 
products, while each having its court and native workers, 
would powerfully attract attention to its own industry, a vast 
area of buildings would be filled without difficulty, and an 
exhibition of extraordinary interest and irresistible attrac¬ 
tiveness would be produced. 
Nor would all this in the slightest degree detract from 
the extent or beauty of the exhibition or exhibitions of plants 
and flowers. We can see no obstacle whatever to holding 
periodical exhibitions throughout the year, and one of them, 
say in June, to be as rich and on as large a scale as that of 
1866, provided sufficient inducements are provided to bring 
the best examples of culture together at a given time. For 
instance, a magnificent exhibition of Azaleas, Rhododen¬ 
drons, and Roses in pots could be provided in early May; 
then a gigantic miscellaneous exhibition might be held in 
June, with an international jury of adjudicators, who could 
be entertained on the 20th, which will be a general “ ban¬ 
queting day.” The Pelargonium and National Rose Shows 
would follow in July; in August the National Carnation, 
with a second miscellaneous plant and early fruit show 
on an extensive scale would command attention, as would 
the succeeding Dahlia and General Cut Flower Show in 
September. A Potato and Root Show would be a success 
in October. Then the campaign might be brilliantly closed 
with a Chrysanthemum and Hardy Fruit Show in Novem¬ 
ber. In this way horticulture would be more fully repre¬ 
sented than by any other means, and an ever new and ever 
widening panorama of attractiveness would be unfolded. 
Besides and between these shows nurserymen and growers 
of plants for market might presumably occupy space with 
Clematises, Pelargoniums, Roses, Rhododendrons, fruit, &c., 
and thus in some measure a continuous display would be 
produced to brighten what, if well carried out, would be the 
most complete exemplification of the resources and import¬ 
ance of the vegetable kingdom ever seen in any country. 
As at the exhibition, the Vegetarian Society would no 
doubt be glad to provide cheap dinners, nutritious and tooth¬ 
some, composed wholly of vegetable food; and it will be 
conceded that instruction on the best methods of preparing 
vegetables and fruit for culinary purposes is as much needed 
as the popularisation of fish as an article of diet. This 
aspect of the case demands, and will no doubt receive, 
consideration. 
There is hope now that the great Exhibition contemplated 
will be held, and we have only to add that the sooner a 
decision is arrived at and the necessary machinery is put in 
motion the better. The undertaking will be a gigantic one, 
but the same energy that has been displayed in preparing 
for and providing the great Exhibition of the present year 
will be fully equal to the task of providing another exhibition 
—essentially different, and certainly of not less public im¬ 
portance—in 1887. 
NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Novelties amongst Chrysanthemums, especially of the Japanese 
type, have been numerously shown this season, and some have come 
to the front so well that they will probably take a place amongst 
the standard exhibition varieties. Every grower likes to add some 
of the best new varieties to his collection each year, and to aid in 
making a selection it is intended so name in the following notes a 
few of those which have been best shown at the London exhibi¬ 
tions, or which have appeared to best advantage in the trade collec¬ 
tions. Before doing so, however, I wish to draw attention to an 
interesting essay on the Chrysanthemum by a French amateur 
Mons. Ghys, which contains some interesting matter in relation to 
the raisers of French varieties and dates of sending out which 
cannot be obtained in any English publication at present. A brief 
review of the history and culture of the Chrysanthemum is given, 
M. Ghys duly acknowledging the assistance he has received from 
Mr. Harman Payne, the author of the interesting “ History of the 
Chrysanthemum ” just published. Then a list of over 200 Japanese 
varieties is given, followed by much smaller and less satisfactory 
lists of Chinese, Anemones, and Pompons. It is dated June 1st, 
1885, and includes the majority of this year’s varieties, with brief 
descriptions. Of the older varieties few are given before 1880, and 
the great majority of the best exhibition Japanese forms have 
appeared since that date. I have selected from the list of Japanese 
some of the finest and best known varieties, arranging them under 
the names of their raisers, those from M. Delaux well meriting the 
foremost place. Several are omitted where the dates were not 
given in M. Ghys’s essay, but a few are named without dates, as 
they are notable varieties. The selection from M. Delaux’s varie¬ 
ties comprise over sixty, and probably he has distributed nearly 100 
in the time named, some of which have never found favour with 
English gi-owers. 
Varieties raised by M. Delaux. —Alexandre Dufour, 1881 ; 
L’Aube Matinale, 1885 ; Beaute des Jardins, 1884, Beaute de 
Toulouse, 1882 ; Brise du Matin, 1884 ; Colibri, 1884 ; Enchant- 
resse, 1886 ; Etoile du Midi, 1881 ; Fernand Feral, 1884 ; Flamme 
de Punch, 1883 ; Francois Delaux, 1882 ; General de Lartique, 
1882 ; lie Japonaise, 1882 ; L’Be des Plaisirs ; L’lncomparable ; 
L’lncroyable, 1884; Isidore Feral, 1882; Japon Fleuri, 1882; 
Jeanne Delaux (?), 1882 ; Jupiter, 1885 ; Laciniata Rosea, 1885 ; 
Lakme, 1885 ; Le Chinois, 1882 ; Madame Boucharlat aine, 1881 ; 
Madame Cannell, 1885 ; Madame de Sevin, 1884 ; Madame Deveille, 
1883; John Laing, 1885; Mdlle. Antoinette Brunei, 1884; 
Mdlle. Louise Sabatie, 1882; Mdlle. Melanie Fabre, 1885; 
Margot, 1883 ; Mastic, 1883 ; Mons. Astorg, 1883 ; Mons. A. 
Vilmorin, 1885 ; Mons. Castel, Mons. Deveille, 1883 ; Mons. Ghys, 
1885 ; Mons. Harman Payne, 1885; Mons. H. Jacotot, 1883; Mons. 
J. H. Laing, 1885 ; Mons. John Laing, 1884 ; Mons. Juan Cruz 
d’Eguileor, 1881 ; Mons. Moussillac, 1883 ; Mons. N. Davis, 1885; 
Mons. Leon Brunei, 1884 ; Mons. Plancheneau, Mons. Tarin, 1883 ; 
L’Or de France, 1884 ; L’Qr du Rhin, 1883 ; Progres Toulousain, 
Richard Larios, Rosea Superba, 1880 ; Rubra Striata, 1881 ; Simon 
Delaux, 1882 ; Souvenir du Caire, 1884 ; Souvenir de Haarlem, 
1885 ; Souvenir du Japon, 1884; Source d’Or, 1882 ; Source 
Japonaise, 1882 ; Striatum Perfectum, 1881 ; Le Surprenant, 1884. 
Varieties raised by M. Lacroix. —Flocon de Neige, 1881 ; 
Gloire Toulousaine, 1883 ; La Nuit, 1879 ; La Purete, 1880 ; 
Mdlle. Lacroix, 1880 ; Mdlle. Moulise, 1878 ; Mentor, 1880 ; 
Rosa Superba, 1880 ; Tendresse, 1881 ; Dormillon, 1882. 
Varieties raised by M. de Reydellet. —Carmen, 1884 ; 
Cendrillon, 1884; Ceres, 1884; Flamboyante,- 1885; Flocon de 
Neige, 1885 ; La Triomphante, 1885 ; Madame de Reydellet. 
Varieties raised by M. Marroucii. —Belle Paule, 1881 ; 
Madame C. Audiguier, 1879 ; Madame Emile Dufour, Marguerite 
Marrouch, 1878. 
Amongst the Japanese are included several which we now place 
in different groups ; for instance, Madeleine Tezier (de Reydellet) 
has been shown this season as an excellent reflexed variety by 
Mr. Molyneux, while Fabian de Mediana (1882, Lacroix) has 
taken its place as one of the best of the Japanese Anemones, 
though this season it has been so late in developing that the blooms 
at the earlier shows were by no means in character. There are 
many others included in the list that are unknown in cultivation in 
England, or are in so few collections that they are rarely seen. 
The English nurserymen have tried and discarded many of these, 
and only the best are preserved, for their merits or defects are 
soon perceived, and amateurs are saved much trouble and expense, 
for in such a large number of novelties as make their appearance 
from France every season there must necessarily be a good propor¬ 
tion of indifferent merit. Either the French growers do not 
exercise the same discrimination that specialists do in this country, 
or the varieties assume superior characters under their bright skies 
than they do in foggy England. In any case it is certain that the 
home nurserymen in selecting the most promising of each year’s 
productions are doing an invaluable service. 
, In the list of Chinese varieties furnished by M. Ghys seventy- 
