Plate 184 . 
VARIETIES OE PYRETHRUM. 
Amongst the flowers which have lately received the attention 
of hybridizers is the well-known and common garden flower, 
whose improved progeny we now have the pleasure of present¬ 
ing to our friends, from drawings of some very distinct kinds 
raised and exhibited by our excellent friend Mr. Salter, of the 
Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith, by whom we have been 
obligingly furnished with the following particulars. 
The Pyrethrum was, about the year 1853, taken in hand by 
the late well-known French cultivator M. Themistere, when it 
first sported in colour from the old P. roseum. About three 
years afterwards the first Anemone-flowered variety was ob¬ 
tained ; and since then the improvement has been so progressive 
and rapid that flowers have been produced equalling in beauty 
and size some of the best of our Anemone-flowered Chrysan¬ 
themums, to which it is 'closely allied. There is also another 
variety with reflexed petals, and when duly improved, as we 
have no doubt it will be, we shall have flowers blooming in 
the earlier months of the year rivalling the best of the Chrys¬ 
anthemums in the later months. They will moreover be ex¬ 
cellent plants for the ornamentation of the border, and as they 
come up easily from seed there will be no difficulty in their 
cultivation. Mr. Salter advises that the seed be sown in a gentle 
hotbed or warm greenhouse in July, and pricked out about 
September, when they will bloom, freely in the following sum¬ 
mer ; while if sown in spring and pricked out in May, they will 
bloom in September or October, although they will not make 
such fine plants or bloom so freely as when autumn-sown. The 
height of the varieties which we have figured, and indeed of 
most of those which Mr. Salter has considered worthy of raising, 
is from a foot to eighteen inches. As to soil, they are not very 
