October 18,1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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French varieties submitted at the same meeting were President Armand, 
Petit Dylans, Prefet Kobert, Marquise d’Aiquesvives. In the exhibitors’ 
stands the following good French novelties were also staged in a highly 
creditable form—Madame C. Molin, Mdlle. Th^rese Rey, President 
Borel, Mrs. C. Harman Payne, Madame Edouard Rey, Louise and Van 
der Heede. 
Varieties of American origin, of which there are large numbers on 
trial, were not so freely represented, but may be expected later. I only 
Whilst it greatly redounds to the credit of growers that from precisely 
the same sorts as give them the exhibition blooms of November they can 
have almost as superb flowers in October, I do not think anyone will 
venture to plead that we do not want such blooms in October. That 
September is early, because then we have a wealth of other flowers, 
there can be no doubt. October is, however, well into the sere and 
yellow leaf of autumn, and fine blooms will sometimes keep better then 
than during the fogs of November. Of course there are exceptions, a& 
Fig. 5G.-CHRYSANTHEMUM FRANK WELLS. 
noticed in the best form Eda Prass, Mrs. E. W. Clarke, W. Tricker, and 
W. H. Lincoln. Of English raised kinds C. Davis, William Seward, 
Edith Rowbottom, G. C. Schwabe, Frank Wells, Miss Dorothea Shea, 
and Charles Shrimpton were the finest and best.—P, 
As a distinct section I think it must be now admitted that these do 
not exist. Certainly the recent show at the Aquarium tended to dissi¬ 
pate any such suggestion. What is now found at an October show, or 
of fine blooms of any sort, are simply early ones of those varieties that 
are found in bloom under certain ordinary conditions in November. It 
is just as well it should be so, because it is evident that we have no need 
for any further or separate early blooming section. 
just lately we had some most wretched, damp, dull weather. Still 
blooms seem to have withstood it wonderfully well, and certainly better 
than they would have done under similar conditions in November. It 
is a good thing that our season of fine blooms now, by taking the early 
buds of some plants, can thus be made so much longer.—A. D. 
Big Chetsanthemums. 
It is perhaps rather early yet to comment upon big exhibition 
blooms ; yet as a visitor to the recent October show of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society at the Royal Aquarium I could n t help 
noticing what a large number of very highly developed flowers were 
staged. It was curious how little the exhibits varied in the kinds that 
