MARCH. 
65 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS “ AIMEE FERIERE ” AND 
“PROGNE.” 
(Plate 136.) 
These two varieties flowered last season at the Versailles 
Nursery, near Hammersmith Turnpike, and attracted universal 
admiration, the one for its symmetry and exquisite tint, the 
other for its brilliant colour. Aimee Feriere belongs to the 
same class as Hermine and Madame Eurtado, both of which it 
surpasses in every respect; the flowers are of medium size, 
very symmetrical, and of a clear silver white, regularly tipped 
with rose pink; this, combined with naturally incurved petals 
of perfect form, cannot fail to render it for many seasons the 
gem of every collection, not only as a conservatory plant hut 
especially at exhibitions of cut flowers. 
Progne is without exception the most brilliant Chrysan¬ 
themum yet raised; its colour is nearly allied to the Rose 
Geant des Batailles, and therefore is a decided acquisition to 
the crimson class. The only varieties at all resembling it are 
Bossuet and Comte Morny, which, however, are altogether 
wanting in that richness and depth of colour which so 
distinguishes Progne ; it belongs to the reflexed class, is of 
full average size, an exceedingly free bloomer, and will be 
one of the most striking ornaments of the flower garden or 
greenhouse. 
PINE-APPLE. 
(Continued from page 55.) 
The length of time the plants are to remain in a state of rest will 
depend on the period the fruit is wanted to ripen; for although the 
plants will not all show fruit at the same time, when started together, 
yet a good proportion of the number subjected to an increase of heat 
both at the top and root, after a rest of two or three months, will show 
fruit within a month or six weeks from the commencement; and as it 
requires about twenty weeks in the summer season to ripen the fruit 
after the shows appear, the cultivator will be able to arrange his plants 
accordingly, allowing a week or two longer in the winter season to ripen 
them, and also bearing in mind that Jamaicas and the smooth Cayenne 
are a fortnight later in ripening than the Queen or Providence. 
As it is very desirable with private families to have a succession of 
Pines throughout the season, a certain number of well-matured plants 
may be placed either in a division by themselves or at the warm end of 
the house or pit in which they have been rested (but it is much the 
best for them to have a separate compartment, if it can be provided) 
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