same way, also Canada and the United States; he has com¬ 
pelled this winter-flowering plant to flower in the summer-time, 
in the hope of making its seed ripen in our own country, but 
without success,—the plants refused to seed at all. He has 
watched the plants for years, to pounce upon a good sport from 
which to breed; for it is a curious fact with Chrysanthemums, 
that it is not from seed alone new varieties are obtained, they 
are also got from suckers. The great point at which Mr. Salter 
has been labouring is to obtain brilliant colour and good form 
for the flower, and a compact, dwarf, strong-growing habit for 
the plant. When we call to mind the dingy dull red with 
which Mr. Salter had to start, and remember that he has had 
no extraneous help from allied species, hut that the brilliant 
and vivid colours now shown have been obtained by watching 
for a flower with a colour a little brighter than its neighbours, 
and breeding from that, and growing its seed in a climate 
which produces the most glowing colours (another point only 
learned by long experience), we cannot fail to accord our ad¬ 
miration to his skill and perseverance. 
The varieties now figured are Her Majesty (fig. 2), a beau¬ 
tiful light-coloured flower of fine dwarf habit, and Lord Pal¬ 
merston (fig. 1), a dark rose-amaranth, incurved and tipped with 
silvery white, very distinct and novel in its appearance. 
