Plate 43. 
NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
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Pyrethrum sinense , vars. 
The beautiful varieties of Chrysanthemum which we have 
now the pleasure to figure, and which have been called Lady 
Hardinge and Little Harry , have each received a well-merited 
first-class certificate from the Floral Committee of the Koyal 
Horticultural Society. We are indebted for the opportunity of 
presenting portraits of them to our readers, to Mr. Salter, of 
the Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith, who is well known as 
one of the leading growers of these valuable autumn flowers, 
and who is the fortunate possessor of them. Both varieties 
bloomed finely in his winter garden last autumn. 
Lady Hardinge is a tall-growing variety, raised by Mr. Clark, 
and is remarkable for the depth of its large, incurved, delicate 
rose-coloured flower-heads, which in the younger stages have 
the florets tipped with cream-colour, and naturally incurve to 
form a beautiful crown or centre. It is a valuable addition to 
the class of light flowers, and will be a fine variety either for 
the production of cut blooms for exhibition, or for growing as 
a specimen plant. 
Little Harry is of a different habit, being remarkably dwarf, 
compact, and free-flowering. For pot culture, as an exhibition 
plant, as well as for decorative purposes, it is probably unsur¬ 
passed ; while its finely incurved flower-heads, of medium size 
and of a golden-amber colour, are models of form, the florets 
being stiff, smooth, and finely incurved. 
Mr. Salter has very obligingly supplied us with the following 
Plate 43. — Pyrethrum sinense, varieties :— 
Pig. 1. Lady Hardinge : flower-heads large, full, with a very high crown 
of incurved florets, delicate rose-pink tipped with blush. 
Pig. 2. Little Harry : habit dwarf; flower-heads medium-sized, the 
florets stout, finely incurved, bright golden-amber or orange-yellow. 
