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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Kovember 15, 1894. 
the seedling bloom from seed sown in March last. This bloom was 
brought up merely to show to my horticultural friends, and necessarily 
not for certificate. Next season, doubtless, the variety will be duly 
submitted. 
May I also point out that one of the seedlings for which I obtained 
a first-class certificate should be “ Rita Schroeter,” not Schroeber. 
Again, it should be “ Guirlande,” not “ Enirlande.” I am quite willing 
to ascribe these mistakes to my hurried writing.— Chas. B. Shea. 
[We trust the frank admission of our correspondent will not be 
without effect. When new plants or fruits are first exhibited it is most 
important that their names, as also those of exhibitors, be clearly 
written on the cards.] 
Chrysanthemum Miss Rita Schroeter. 
Conspicuous amongst the numerous new Chrysanthemums brought 
before the Floral Committee of the National Chrysanthemum Society on 
the 7th inst. were blooms of Miss Rita Schroeter. This is a large 
Japanese flower of a handsome appearance, and was raised from seed 
last year by Mr. C. E. Shea, Foot’s Cray, Kent, by whom it was 
exhibited at the above mentioned meeting. As shown in the illustration 
(fig. 69), which has been reduced from a photograph, the flower has an 
incurving centre. The florets are of medium width and stout substance, 
white tinted lilac on the margins, the middle of the bloom being lemon 
yellow. It is obviously an acquisition, and the stock of it, we under¬ 
stand, has passed into the hands of Mr. W. J. Godfrey, The Nurseries, 
Exmouth, by whom it will be distributed. 
Anemones at the Aquarium. 
Though most of the older varieties were presented in good form 
others of more recent date seem to be worthy of a few notes. Taking 
varieties of American origin first, Judge Hoist, a seedling of Messrs. 
E. G. Hill & Son, certificated by the National Chrysanthemum Society 
last year, is a large loose flower ; the colour is pale pink. J. Thorpe, jun., 
raised by Mr. John Thorpe eight years ago, has somewhat narrow flat 
guard florets with a good disc, a self-coloured bloom of pure golden 
yellow. Mrs. Judge Benedict, one of Mr. Spaulding’s novelties of 
1889, has pale blush, grooved, incurving florets, with a disc of pale 
sulphur yellow. Delaware, distributed by Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, 
has white guard florets with a pale yellow disc, and is a delicate- 
looking flower. 
Among the French varieties M. Dupanloup is a rich purple rose with 
thin fluted guard florets, disc same colour. This came from Lacroix. 
M. Pankoucke is a seedling of M. Hoste’s ; the guard florets are broad 
and flat, colour purple claret, the disc is high but rather paler. Madame 
Lawton comes from Ddlaux, and has flat guard florets, colour white 
shaded rose, and a high centre of lilac mauve. Le Deuil is one I have 
never been able to trace, but was certainly grown in France long before 
it was known here. It has thin fluted guard florets, and a good disc of 
purple crimson ; a self. Marie Laglaize, a variety raised by a grower 
but little known in this country, M. Lassali. It is white, with the 
guard florets slightly flushed rosy purple ; the disc is white and deeply 
toothed, Lumiere d’Argent, medium size, pale silvery blush, a pretty 
self variety, but small in comparison with many of the new varieties ; 
raised by Ddlaux. Sabine, from the same raiser, has sulphur yellow 
guard florets with a disc somewhat darker. Ernest Caille, has long 
guard florets of medium width, a fairly good disc ; a self. Colour pale 
yellowish buff. Nelson, rich purple crimson guard florets, centre rosy 
crimson tipped gold. Grande Alveole, a beautiful delicate shade of 
lilac blush ; a self. Sent out by Lacroix eleven years ago.—P. 
Early Chrysanthemums. 
In most seasons, but especially when outdoor flowers are destroyed by 
frosts, October blooming plants are most valuable, none more so than 
selected Chrysanthemums of decided colours. Although flowering in 
September I cannot pass over Gustave Grunerwald, described as silvery 
white. This is a beautiful variety. I grow Madame Desgrange 
outside, and also cultivate a few in pots to follow those. Mrs. Burrell, 
a primrose sport from Madame Desgrange, is a fitting companion to it. 
Mrs. Hawkins, golden yellow, another sport from the same source, 
although rather a stubborn grower is fine in colour. Mrs. Cullingford 
and La Vierge, white Pompons, are good varieties, and very free. Mr. 
J. R. Pitcher, blush white Japanese, and the ever useful Soeur Melanie 
should always find a place. 
Very showy is Pynaert Van Geert, golden yellow striped with red ; 
even richer than the former in colour, but similar, is La Ville de Heyres 
following a little later. These are both of the Jap.anese type. A fine 
yellow variety is Ryecroft Glory. I recently saw at the harvest festival 
at Woolton some plants of this in 7-inch pots, bush forms, which were 
used with striking effect there by Mr; Jellicoe of Camp Hill. Then in 
the way of singles the beautiful Mary Anderson has been in flower for 
some time past. Following on this we have Effle, deep crimson, large 
flowers, fine. Jane, or Snowflake, white, twisted petals ; Oceana,’peach 
blush, a pleasing flower of large size; Admiral Symonds, deep yellow, 
fine flowers ; Massalia, crimson ; and Golden Star, medium-sized blooms, 
the name indicative of the colour. 
For fiowering at Christmas I usually grow plants of Mdlle. Lacroix 
and Boule de Niege. These are kept out as long as practicable, being 
housed at night, where convenient, if likely to be frosty.—J. J. Craven, 
Allerton Friory Gardens. 
The Brighton Chrysanthemum Show. 
In the two principal competitions for cut blooms (class 15, thirty- 
six blooms, and class 16, twenty-four blooms, Japanese) fourth prizes 
were awarded to Mr. A. F. Grace of Steyning, of which you make no 
mention. The competition was an extremely keen one. In the cup 
class (thirty-six blooms^ the points were first, 145J ; second, Mr. Flight, 
133^ ; third, Mr. Wells, 132 ; fourth, Mr. Grace, 129. As Mr. Grace is 
the only amateur who was successful in the open classes, and is entirely 
his own gardener, cutting his blooms from little over 100 plants, instead 
of from the one or two thousand grown by most of his twenty-four 
competitors, his success certainly deserved recognition, the more .so, as 
his thirty-six box, though uneven (from his selection being limited to so 
few plants) contained twenty-four of the finest blooms exhibited at the 
show.— An Old Subscriber. 
[As the report of the show had to be at this oflSce by the first post on 
Wednesday, and arriving at a moment of great pressure, anything in the 
nature of a complete record of prizewinners was out of the question. 
The exhibitor you name certainly acquitted himself well, and we are 
obliged by your note in recognition of his success.] 
Disqualified Exhibits. 
I notice that on page 427 of the Journal of Horticulture Mr. Wells 
complains of being twice disqualified for exhibiting blooms on large 
boards—viz,, at the Kent County show and Battersea. He also asks if 
anyone can unriddle what it means by having the boards made in 
accordance with the metropolitan plan. I fail to see where the riddle 
comes in, for regulation 8 of the Kent County Chrysanthemum Society 
definitely states that the boards shall be 24 inches long and 18 inches 
wide, the holes to be 6 inches from centre to centre. Tnis has been the 
metropolitan standard ever since I have known anything of Chrys¬ 
anthemum shows, and until the National Chrysanthemum Society state 
that they shall be made larger I take it they will remain the standard. 
I consider Mr. Wells has only himself to blame for his disqualification, 
for if he had read his schedule carefully he must have known he would 
be disqualified, for at the bo tom of the regulations special notice is 
called to the fact “ that any infringement of the regulations will dis¬ 
qualify exhibitors.” What is the use of societies making regulations if 
exhibitors are allowed to infringe them ? 
At Battersea Mr. Wells made his own disqualification, for he was 
told distinctly by one of his opponents at Blackheath that he should 
enter a protest if he exhibited on large boards. Mr. Wells no doubt 
relied on the Secretary’s reply to his letter ; but I fail to find anything 
in the rules of the Battersea Society that gives the Secretary power to 
favour one exhibitor more than another. Afluliation with the National 
Chrysanthemum Society does not, for the rules for affiliated socieues 
does not bind them to accept the National’s ruling as to size of boards. 
Relative to Mr. Wells’s question as to whether his blooms could be 
seen to advantage on a 6-inoh board, I will not say that they could ; 
but I would like to ask Mr. Wells if gome of the other blooms in the 
same class would not have been seen to greater advantage if they had 
been shown on larger boards?—R. Filkins. 
The Missing Link, 
Japanese and incurved Chrysanthemum blooms have become so 
like the famous Skye terrier that no one now can tell where one ends 
and the other begins. Some day, perhaps, we shall wonder how any 
distinction was made, and I think that day is not far off. If we can 
make sections of tasselled, loose petalled, and incurved, there may be 
some reason for it, but when such a true incurved variety as J. Agate, 
really a large Empress of India, is classed as a Japanese, then the 
height of absurdity is reached. But even assuming that this fine 
white incurved did come from Japanese parentage, does it not serve to 
show that so far as species are concerned there is no distinction, no 
real dividing line, that the classified distinctions are purely arbitrary, 
and the raiser of Chrysanthemums is now doing his best to show that 
a coach and four can be as easily driven through them as through an 
Act of Parliament? When it is remembered that such large and 
coarse incurved blooms as Mons. R. Bahuant and Baron Hirsch are 
admitted into the select incurved ranks, why it is folly to regard 
J. Agate as other than of the same section, parentage notwithstanding. 
But if Mons, R. Bahuant be admitted, why not R. Owen or Lord 
Brooke? “ Oh ! ” it wid be said, “ a line must be drawn somewhere.” 
But the line needs a more defined form of demarcation than is found 
in tweedledum and tweedledee. Surely it cannot be doubted but that 
we have now such a number of incurved Japanese blooms coming 
into commerce, that no exact line between one section and another 
can be drawn. 
It is true a central body like the National Chrysanthemum Society 
may declare such a variety to belong to one or the other, but evtn the 
N.C.S. is hardly the arbiter dictu of all the kingdom. It is so very 
evident that a complete revision of sectionising or classification is 
needed, and once we a'opt tne sections of tasselled, with Sunflower, 
Viviand Morel, or Avalanche as types; loose petalled, such as 
E. Molyneux, Mdlle. Ti d ese Rey, or Stanstead White, as types; and 
incurved, ranging fiom Viscountess Hambledon Louise, Robert Owen, 
J. Agate, Empress of India and Princess of Wales for types, we shall 
get then to something like soundness in methods of classifying. There 
