Plate 135. 
POMPON CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
While the large and brilliant flowers, which form what is 
called the section of large-flowering Chrysanthemums, are those 
which are especially looked for, where either a striking display 
is desired or individual blooms required for single cut speci¬ 
mens, the neater and more compact varieties, which go by the 
names of Pompons or Lilliputians, (derived from the Chusan 
Daisy,) are those which are more especially admired for pot cul¬ 
ture, neither requiring the room of the large ones, and being 
more available for bouquets ; the former are the favourites with 
exhibitors, the latter with ladies. 
It is mainly to the exertions of Mr. John Salter, of the Ver¬ 
sailles Nursery, Hammersmith, that we are indebted for the 
large number of very beautiful flowers which comprise this 
section, and from his collection the subjects of the present 
illustrations were taken, although it is somewhat singular that 
during the past three or four years the greater proportion of 
new seedlings has been found amongst the large-flowered 
section, and so it is in the present year again: Mr. Salter has 
thirty-seven new flowers; of these only seven are Pompons, the 
remaining thirty being large flowers; and we cannot but think 
that notwithstanding the numerous and very beautiful varieties 
that there are in the class, it would reward the labours of 
such raisers as Messrs. Clark and Smith to try to add to their 
number. 
The extreme docility, if we may use such a phrase, of the 
Pompon Chrysanthemum has led to its being very much tor¬ 
tured in the way of training, the ingenuity of many growers, 
many of whom concentrated their energies on this one class of 
plants, having been exercised to produce as ugly and tasteless 
