Plate 132 . 
LARGE-FLOWERING CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
The past Chrysanthemum season has been, we are told, the 
very worst known in the neighbourhood of London for the last 
forty years; and it would almost seem as if the purveyors for 
the public in the way of flower-shows had foreseen this, for 
neither at the Crystal Palace nor the Royal Horticultural 
Society was there an exhibition; at the latter, indeed, a few 
prizes were offered at one of the meetings of the Floral Com¬ 
mittee, but they were not sufficient to bring together a very 
large number of either exhibitors or visitors. 
Mr. Salter, of Hammersmith, who has now, for upwards 
of twenty years, held the first position as a Chrysanthemum 
grower, (nearly all the fine varieties now in cultivation having 
passed through his hands,) endeavoured to gratify the public 
with the view of a very extensive and unique collection, which 
he planted in the plot of ground where Messrs. Waterer and 
Godfrey’s Kalmias and Rhododendrons had flowered in the 
spring, in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at South 
Kensington, and the immense variety and great beauty of the 
flowers, sheltered as they were by canvas, were greatly admired. 
The following interesting remarks in the Journal of the 
Proceedings of the Society (p. T02) supply some curious infor¬ 
mation on this flower:—“No plan or device by which he 
thought it possible to improve his flowers has been omitted, 
and no expense spared, by Mr. Salter. Finding that some 
climates were better adapted for maturing the seeds of his 
plants than others, he has made experiments in almost every 
quarter of the globe. Not content with Europe, he has sent 
plants to be grown for seed at the Cape of Good Hope, and 
had the produce returned to him; he has tried Algiers in the 
