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CULTURE Of THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
37. The Late Quilled Yellow, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 343. This 
has been called a very late and not very desirable variety in collec¬ 
tions. It appears to me to be of the middle size, but it has not yet 
opened its blossom buds with me, not having long possessed it. 
38. The Large Lilac, Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 343, and vol. v. p. 
420. Also called the Late Lilac, the New Lilac, and the Semi-dou¬ 
ble Purple. A very tall upright plant, bearing but few double large 
and clustered flowers at the summits of the branches, and those so 
late in appearance, that in cold seasons the} 7 cannot expand well, and 
are consequently in but little repute. I have only seen one plant in 
blossom, and that in my own garden. 
39. The Tasseled Lilac, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 332. A middle- 
sized, or rather tall plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most 
desirable of the whole group, having very showy tassel-formed flow¬ 
ers, five inches or more in expanse, very numerous, early, and ele¬ 
gantly drooping from their weight, but they often show a disk. It is 
a likely variety to produce seeds of the most promising kind, but I 
have not hitherto heard of its ripening any in England. 
40. The Tasseled Purple, the Purple, Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 334. 
Has also been called the Old Purple, the Old Red, and the Quilled 
Purple, and is figured in the Bot. Mag. tab. 327. This is a very 
beautiful and rather early-flowering plant, of almost the middle size. 
The flowers are very numerous, gracefully drooping, and of middling 
size, and are at first of a reddish purple colour, but become paler by 
age, and in mild seasons will continue in succession from the end of 
October to the second week in January. It acquires the name of 
old, from being the first China-chrysanthemum that came to Eng¬ 
land in modern times, and bloomed at Mr. Colvill’s nursery, in Nov. 
1795, but was said to be at Kew in 1790. The great horticulturist 
Miller certainly had one, or more likely two, of these Chinese or 
Indian chrysanthemums in cultivation at Chelsea long before; but 
it is not yet quite satisfactorily explained what sorts they were. See 
Hort. Trans, vol. iv. tab. 12, p. 326, and following. 
41. The Changeable Tasseled White, the Changeable White, 
Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 336, and vol. v. p. 419, and Bot. Mag. tab. 
2042. It has also been called the Old White, being the first white- 
flowered variety known in our gardens. It is recorded in the Hort. 
Trans, to have been raised from a sporting branch of the preceding, 
and, indeed, resembles it in every thing but colour. It is a very 
graceful and elegant plant, and in warm situations its flowers are of¬ 
ten more or less tinged or dotted with purple or blush colour. 
42. The Narrow Quilled White, the Quilled White, Hort. Trans. 
