284 THE HEATING OF HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS. 
NURSERY CALLS. 
Mr. Salter’s, Hammersmith. 
(71IIRYSANTHEMUMS generally in the vicinity of the metropolis have not bloomed kindly, and 
({) therefore it would he unjust to speak positively as to their merits. ThePompones have formed no 
exception to the rule, and, being new, we have no doubt it will create a prejudice against them. That 
some of them are worthless, and those among the last imported ones, no one can for a moment doubt; and 
pretty as they look in M. Miellez’s coloured plate, by which they were sold, it is quite certain that two- 
thirds of the collection must he consigned to the rubbish heap. So daisy-like are some of them, that, 
when taken from the plants, it is difficult to distinguish them from wdiat Burns so poetically termed 
that flower: and we fear that florists, though they may enter into the spirit of the quotation, will stop 
short of the last two words, and not consider the Chrysanthemums as the poet did the daisies, “ bonny 
gems— 
“Wee modest, crimson-tipped flow’r, 
Thou’s met me in an evil hour: 
For I maun crush amang the stoure 
Thy slender stem; 
To spare thee now is past my pow’r, 
Thou bonnie gem,” 
Still we have hope ; those figured in a preceding page are not so bad;—like fancy Pelargoniums 
the Pompones are in their infancy, but, with their elegant habits and profuse manner of producing 
flowers, they must, under the hands of the careful cross breeder, become fine things. We must recollect 
that the large kinds a few years back were very shapeless, but they are now fast approaching the 
standard of excellence ; therefore we say to those so favourably situated as to ripen the seed, persevere, 
and your labours we doubt not will be rewarded. 
Among the more marketable kinds which we saw the other day at Mr. Salter’s nursery, may be 
mentioned the following Pompones, though it is but just to remark that the flowers, when we saw them, 
were past their best:—Pompon d’Or is a very beautiful yellow, and very double; Bijou has pink 
flowers, very double and very pretty ; Daphnis (vol. 1, p. 310) is of a deep violet-purple colour, and the 
flowers are numerously produced; La Superieure has brown flowers, with yellow disk, distinct; La 
Fiancee is a beautiful white ; Elize Miellezdeep crimson, very compact; Circe, peach blossom, changing 
to white; Poulideto, deep pink with white centre; La Lapuonne, cupped pink with anemon ecentre ; and 
La Liliputienne, is very pretty. These kinds, under proper management, w T ill give satisfaction to 
most growers. Of the larger kinds the best are California, a fine full-petalled yellow raised by 
Mr. Salter; it is equal to Annie Salter and much deeper in colour. No. 367, a seedling not named, is 
a delicate pink flower of some promise. Pio Nono, another seedling of Mr. Salter’s, has incurved bronzy 
petals with golden tips, which makes them very remarkable ; Louis Napoleon has dark red flowers 
changing to orange; Christina produces deep peach-coloured flowers of immense size, some of them 
being upwards of four inches in diameter ; Jenny Lind opens yellow, changes to rose, and dies off white 
—a superior variety; Warden opens yellow and changes to buff; Medusa opens crimson, changes to 
pink, and dies off rosy white ; Cloth of Gold is a quilled incurved flower of fine colour, and Madame de 
Godoria is a fine white, and a decided beat upon Fleur de Marie ; Sydenham has red flowers changing 
to orange, and Rabelais bronzy rose flowers ; Yortigeur has deep red purple flowers, Rebecca pinkish 
peach colour, and Brilliant bronzy yellow flowers. Of Anemone flowered kinds, Gluck is the best, and 
a fine yellow; Fleur de Marie is also distinct. The following are also established sorts—Pilot, Temple 
of Solomon, and Phidias. 
Mr. Salter has several more promising seedlings, but this season they had not bloomed sufficiently 
well to warrant him in sending them out, and consequently they will he grown another season.—A. 
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THE HEATING OE HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS. 
S INCE the advocates of Polmaise abandoned then’ cause, this subject has been comparatively in 
abeyance, and at the present day it is a difficult matter to introduce anything in connection with 
it that has a novel, and at the same time takes a practical character. The fact, however, appears fast 
to be gaining ground, that as regards economy, and the complete abstraction of heat from the fuel, 
the common flue, when properly constructed, is the most effective instrument; and we think that 
if the same amount of philosophy and hard cash had been expended in improving the common flue as 
