Plate 186 . 
POMPON CEKYSANTHEMUMS. 
As each season for the display of the Chrysanthemum comes 
round, we naturally look to Mr. Salter for a supply of novelties ; 
and although by far the larger number of his new varieties 
belong to the section of large-flowered varieties, yet he gene¬ 
rally also is enabled to bring forward a few in the more gene¬ 
rally popular section of Pompon, or small-flowered varieties. 
When we use the expression “ more generally popular,” we 
do not allude to them as cut flowers for exhibition,—their size 
is too diminutive for that purpose,—but as plants; their neat 
and compact habit of growth, freeness of bloom, and facility of 
cultivation making them equally at home in the conservatory 
of the wealthy or in the cottage window of the poor ; and while 
they have that common fault of the Chrysanthemum, a want of 
brilliancy, yet the delicacy of their tints and the exceedingly 
good shape of the flowers take off from this defect. 
We had an opportunity at the Great Chrysanthemum Show 
at Islington, in November last, of comparing the various me¬ 
thods of growth adopted by different metropolitan growers. 
Some were trained out as bushes, somewhat in the style of the 
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great Pelargoniums exhibited by Mr. Turner and others ; some 
were brought into a flat top, almost like a round table, while 
others were run up as pyramids; but none of these plants, 
however they may suit the exigencies of our exhibitors, will, I 
think, be favourites with the general grower. There is nothing, 
to our minds, that makes so pretty a plant, as to allow them to 
grow in their natural way as much as possible; a few stakes 
will, of course, be necessary, but only a few; and then, if the 
plants are carefully watered, and not allowed to “ flag ” during 
their growth, they will be well covered with foliage, so that 
