December 13,1894 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
531 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
ANALYSIS. 
-X- : 
T he exhibition held by the National Chrysanthemum Society 
in November last was not, if all the sections be included, 
quite as extensive as that held during the same month in 1893. 
But with this exception the exhibits were more numerous than 
at any similar show since the Centenary exhibition of 1890. 
The aggregate number of blooms staged in competition at 
each of the last six exhibitions, exclusive of these shown in the 
classes set apart for six flowers of a variety, has been as follows :— 
1889 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
1894 
Incurved. 
.. 682 
... 1377 
... 827 
... 609 . 
.. 885 . 
.. 716 
Japanese. 
.. 922 
... 2051 
... 975 
... 1033 . 
.. 1862 . 
.. 1759 
1601 
3131 
1802 
1612 
2717 
2175 
At the exhibition this year there were more large Anemones 
and Japanese Anemones staged than at any previous show. On 
the other hand a considerable falling off was noticeable in the 
case of the reflexed varieties. There were also fewer Pompons 
and Pompon Anemones than at the preceding exhibition. At the 
last two shows the Japanese have outnumbered the incurved by 
more than two to one, and at the 1892 exhibition there were 
more than half as many again of the former as compared with 
the latter. Not only has this been the case, but nearly all the 
leading incurved varieties have likewise been staged in fewer 
numbers in recent years than formerly. That is to say, when 
their average records for the last five exhibitions are contrasted 
with those for the previous five they come out much lower. I 
have, therefore, this year calculated the averages for all the 
varieties throughout the table, which are old enough to allow of 
this being done, for six instead of ten years. The relative 
positions of the varieties in the analysis by doing this are 
but little altered, but the averages themselves which govern 
these positions will be found to have been in many cases con¬ 
siderably reduced, and yet even now are evidently not as low 
as they should be. I cannot quite understand why this general 
decline, which 1 referred to last year, should have taken place, 
unless it be that the number of good sorts available having of 
late years increased there are more varieties for exhibitors to select 
from, and therefore the same restricted number of kinds is not 
so repeatedly to be seen in the different stands as in the earlier 
years of the analysis. There were but few of the established 
varieties which were this year staged in unusual numbers even as 
compared with the last few exhibitions, the most favoured being 
Alfred Salter, Prince Alfred, Mrs. Heale, and Refulgens. On the 
other hand there were again a good many well-known varieties 
which appeared in fewer stands than ordinary, such as Golden 
Empress of India, Jeanne d’Arc, Golden Queen of England, Nil 
Desperandum, Lady Hardinge, and others. 
We now come to the newer sorts, and it is no doubt owing to 
the greater numbers in which these have been cultivated in recent 
years that the decline in the averages of the established kinds 
before referred to must in a great measure be attributed. Of 
those sent out in 1890 Mme. Darier stands at No. 5 in the analysis, 
and was as frequently staged as in the previous year. 
M. R. Bahuant (No. 18) also holds its own remarkably well, 
but neither Mme. F. Mistral (No. 35) nor Ami Hoste (No. 41) 
were as well represented this year as last. Mrs. R. King 
No, 755.—VoL. XXIX., Third Series. 
(No. 36), the only 1891 incurved on the list, has also not improved 
on its former position. On the other hand, Baron Hirsoh, sent 
out in 1892, has risen from No. 24 at one bound as high as No. 6, 
and was as often staged as almost any variety in the table. 
Brookleigh Gem, of the same year, has likewise done remarkably 
well, rising from No. 36 to No. 15, while C. B. Whitnall on its 
first appearance in the analysis will be found at No. 43. It will 
thus be seen that we are not only indebted to the year 1892 for a 
surprising number of grand Japs, but for several exceptionally 
fine incurved varieties as well. Of the 1893 sorts Lucy Kendall 
rises from No. 43 to No. 20, whereas Robert Petfield takes its 
place at No. 39, 
A glance down the dates of the Japanese in the table will at 
once show how impossible it has become to attempt any analysis 
of their previous performances, most of them having no history 
at all, or at all events none from which any satisfactory conclusions 
could be drawn ; I have therefore this year placed all the varieties 
on the list according to the number of times they were staged at 
the last exhibition alone. A certain interest attaches to such a 
record, but of course the varieties cannot, for several obvious 
reasons, be placed in their true relative positions, like in an analysis 
extending over a series of years. At all events, the table shows 
what sorts were most popular with exhibitors during the past 
exhibition season. The results in the table are for the whole 
exhibition, but by confining the investigation to the larger classes 
only it will be seen from the list given below how much more 
extensively some of the newest kinds are grown by the larger than 
by the smaller growers. No doubt the expense of keeping a collec¬ 
tion of Chrysanthemums now-a-days quite abreast of the times 
has much to do with this. The first twenty-four varieties, 
arranged according to the number of times they were set up in 
the open classes, arrange themselves in the following order :— 
V. Morel, C. Davis, Sunflower, Etoile de Lyon, Mrs. C. H. Payne, 
Avalanche, E. Molyneux, Mdlle. M. Hoste, F. Davis, G. C. 
Schwabe, W. Tricker, Col. W. B, Smith, Mdlle. T. Rey, Duke of 
York, Mrs. F. Jameson, W. H. Lincoln, Primrose League, 
W. Seward, Miss D. Shea, Stanstead White, J. Shrimpton, 
President Borel, Yiscountess Hambledon, and Princess May. 
Of the foregoing the only sorts whose positions in the table 
would be in any way seriously affected had the analysis been 
confined to these larger classes, instead of taking the whole show, 
are the following Col. W. B. Smith, which would fall nine, and 
W. Seward, six places. On the other hand Primrose League would 
gain six, Yiscountess Hambledon seven, Mdlle. T. Rey three, 
F. Davis three, and Duke of York four places. Outside the above 
twenty-four M. Bernard would lose eleven, Boule d’Or six, and 
Alberic Lunden nine places; whereas Amos Perry would gain 
nine, W. W. Coles eight, and Yal d’Andorre also eight places. 
As nearly all the varieties named in the table are of recent 
origin, and to have the advantage of a year’s start must in many 
cases be a considerable gain to those so favoured, I will now 
arrange them in accordance with their dates of introduction. 
1390,—W. H. Lincoln, Alberic Lunden, and Mr. A. H. Neve. 
1891 _V. Morel, Mdlle. M. Hoste, W. Tricker, F. Davis, 
Gloire du Rocher, Eda Prass, Yiscountess Hambledon, and Inter¬ 
national. 
1892. —Col. W. B. Smith, Mrs. C. H. Payne, G. C. Schwabe, 
W. Seward, Mdlle. T. Rey, J. Shrimpton, President Borel, 
Piimrose League, Princess May, Excelsior, Yan den Heede, 
Beauty of Exmouth, G. W. Childs, Niveus, Amos Perry, 
C. Shrimpton, Lord Brooke, Louise, Madame C. Capitant, and 
W. K. Woodcock. 
1893. —C. Davis, Miss D. Shea, Autumn Tints, Col. Chase, 
Cecil Wray, Mrs. A. G. Hubbuck, Richard Dean, Rose Wynne, 
and Yioletta. 
1894. —Duke of York. 
The revolution that has recently been going on this section is 
No. 2111.—VoL. XCL, Old Series. 
