Plate 181. 
CHBYSANTHEMUMS, LOBD CLYDE AND 
SAINT M AUG ABET. 
The past season has seen a very greatly revived interest in 
this fine autumnal, and indeed we may say winter flower, the 
opening of the Amalgamated Chrysanthemum Society show 
at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, having brought together 
a large number of plants and cut blooms from the best growers 
about the metropolis,—a fact the more desirable because both 
the Royal Horticultural Society and Crystal Palace Company 
have abandoned their exhibitions, not finding, we suppose, 
that in the dreary month of November an exhibition will pay. 
We are also informed by Mr. Salter that he has never had so 
large a number of persons at his winter garden as this season, 
and he certainly never had a larger bill of fare to present to 
them, for independently of the older varieties, he had nearly 
three hundred seedlings, many of them of very great merit. 
We question, however, after all, whether a Chrysanthemum 
show will be popular; there is a want of that decided colouring 
in them, which makes a flower show so attractive, and for our¬ 
selves we would sooner see Mr. Salter’s collection than the best 
exhibition that could be got together,—for there is a greater 
mass of bloom, -and the introduction of other plants gives that 
liveliness to them which their own want of brightness makes 
necessary, while there is ever the charm which attaches to 
novelty in looking at the new varieties coming forward. 
In addition to the two figured in our Plate, the following will 
be found amongst the most novel and beautiful of the new 
varieties to be let out in April :—General Bainbrigge , bright 
amber; Princess of Wales, a very large white, with delicate 
