Plate 84. 
VARIETIES OE LABGE-FLOWEBING 
CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Chrysanthemum * sinense . 
The season of the year at which it flowers, the ease with 
which it is cultivated, and the permanence of its bloom,— 
whether on the plant or as cut flowers,—have all combined to 
render the Chrysanthemum one of the most generally grown and 
admired of florists’ flowers, for to such a rank, owing to the 
care which has been bestowed on it for some years, it now 
justly lays claim. 
In the dreary month of November, when, some few years 
ago, the very last thing that would have been thought of was 
a flower-show, there are now many opportunities of witnessing 
as pretty a display, of both growing plants and cut blooms, as; 
at any season of the year (when one flower has to be depended 
on), not only at the Royal Horticultural Society and the Crys¬ 
tal Palace, but at Kennington and Hackney, and other subur¬ 
ban places where exhibitions are held; nay, in the very heart 
of the great Metropolis, the frequenter of its most crowded 
thoroughfare has only to turn out of Fleet Street into those 
dreary regions sacred to the law, to find, under the fostering 
care of Messrs. Broome and Dale, of the Middle and Inner 
Temple Gardens, a collection in full vigour both of health and 
bloom; while the winter gardens of Mr. Salter of Hammer¬ 
smith, and Mr. Bird of Stoke Newington, the largest growers 
of them in England, afford a real treat to those who are desi¬ 
rous of not only seeing old established favourites, but novelties 
also. 
It is to the former of these two gentlemen, Mr. Salter, for¬ 
merly of Versailles, but now of Hammersmith, that we are in- 
# Mr. Beaton, in 1 Cottage Garden Dictionary,’ so places it: others refer 
it to Pyrethrum. 
