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are many short, erect petalled flowers, such as Mrs. Harman Payne for 
instance, big and coarse, the absence of which could not for one 
moment be mourned by all who regard beauty and quality as meriting 
first consideration. The same sort of thing enters even into the reflexed 
section, where such stiff, erect petalled forms as the Christines are 
included, whilst many most perfect reflexed forms are denied admission. 
Why Cullingfordi should be included, and such varieties as the 
Shrimptons, Commandant Blusset, James Lynch, shut out, is to be 
of the catalogue has just been published. The new work is somewhat 
more comprehensive than the supplement published two years ago, and 
is intended to supersede it. In the selected lists for exhibition certain 
alterations have been made by which some of the varieties considered 
worthy of a place on the show boards two years ago have been 
eliminated and newer and more improved varieties substituted. 
In the second supplement it will be found that the selected list 
contain more varieties in almost all the sections, but these additions are 
Fig. G9.—chrysanthemum MISS RITA SCHROETER. 
classed amongst those things no one can understand. The whole 
thing is purely arbitrary. Some day, perhaps, it will be needful to 
convene a conference of representatives of all shows and of exhibitors 
for the purpose of determining how this needful reform in classification 
is to be brought about. Suggestions with regard to methods of judging 
seem to have been dropped like hot Potatoes. The need for seme 
classification reform will force itself on the Chrysanthemum world 
whether it likes it or not.—A. D. 
National Chrysanthemum Society’s Catalogue. 
As announced in our last report of the meeting of the General 
Committee of this Society a second supplement to the centenary edition 
of course principally confined to the incurved and Japanese lists. For 
many purposes the new supplement would be sufficient, as the old 
centenary edition is by this time very much out of date, and it is agree¬ 
able to find that the catalogue committee hope on the next occasion of 
revision to issue the catalogue in a single volume form. The general 
alphabetical list contains altogether about 1800 entries, these being the 
names and descriptions of all the new varieties of 1890-93 with such of 
those for the current year as were shown in promising form at the 
Floral Committee meetings of the National Cury janthemum Society 
last season. Of course the total number incorporated in the Society’s 
supplement now published falls far short of those included in M. O. de 
Meulenaire’s new catalogue, but this is accounted for by the fact that 
