ui_iau iiuLiiy curiuus jvuuis exiscod tiiore, SUCH US (lark sreen u 
bluo,^ as tliero are such depicted in -Japanese art i)oltery, Sec, Wo hi 
in i’jn^Iand two ^i^i'oon oiios, *• Moroiico Davis, ’ wl'iich c!ian<>'C‘S 
We must divest ourselves of the popular idea of c lirysanthemum Idoom 
bein^ one individual tlowci’, and look u)K)n it as a flower-liead or 
capitulum, consistin'*' of from oiu* to two lumdrc'd f)r moi'o sepai’ato 
floweift. It has heen said that the Ijinperor of -lapan had a very sek'ct 
private collection of chrysanth(‘mums une([ualled throu.ithout the vrorld, 
and that many curious kinds existed there, such as dark ^reen and 
have 
white with ag'o, and *■ IMad. Ijdward iioger,’’ which is a deejier ureen. 
Blue ones have yet to ho discovei'ed. 
IMr. H. Bayne, wo'iting in 77/r (lunhn, ISOI, about eai'ly chrvsan- 
themums, says that the feeling of surprise at the beauty "and utility 
of the chrysantliemums was beginning to wear away soinewhat, and 
no doubt the difhculty of obtaining satisfactory results in the open 
air had been manifest('d by unfa\'ourable seasons. We find complaints 
of the growers that there were no early kinds. As time went on, 
gro-wers devoted themselves to cultivating seedlings, and little by little 
seedlings were raised in the Channel fslands not only by professionals, 
but by amateurs, ))ut up to liS.-jO chrysanthemums coidd not he had in 
bloom before the )niddlo of October. In iSaiJ some plants were 
exhibited in France in September, which had been in bloom since the 
middle of August. l\r. Lebois saveil seed fi'om these and raised in the 
year 1H53 nine new plants with doul)le dowers distinct in colour. The 
first record of early chrysanthemums in Fngland was in IS.IT, and 
they W'Ore of foreign oi'igin. ]\fr. Broome, gardener at that time at the 
Temple Cardens, writes in ISaH that several kinds of early chrysan¬ 
themums bloomed during the months of June, July, August! and 
September. 
The nomenclature in Japaii is curious, of which 1 may give a few 
examples: “ lifountain lilists,” ‘A-Vutumn Cloud,” ‘Adyiiig Crane,” 
“Fountain of IMilk,” “Light of the IMoon,” “White Bird of the 
Moonlight,” “ Colden Clory of the Hill.” “ ]\roon in the Window,” 
“ Colden Throne Studs,” “ Star of Six Hundred Rays,” “ The Bride¬ 
groom,” “ Fightingale’s Delight,” “ A Thousand Sparks,” Fye of a 
Snake,” “ Stork's Crest,’’ “ (liueen’s Fingers,” “ d’alons of an Eagle ” ; 
these are Japanese, and the Chinese are said to be far more curious. 
A correspondent writing in 'Hu' (I'anJcn in December, 1890, says he 
believed there "were then in cultivation about 2,000 sorts in England. 
Mr. Wells, of Earlswood, Red Hill, tells me he thinks there are nearly 
5,000 varieties in cultivation, including Japanese, incurved, pompons, 
anemones, reflexed, singles or spidery (with thread-like petals), and 
early flowering varieties. The raising of seedlings is a very irregular 
business; sometimes one gets three or four really good varieties from 
one head of seed, and another time one does not get one from a 
thousand plants, and seed-saving is very difhcult in this country on 
account of the fogs and damp of our autumns, which cause the flower- 
heads to rot when the seed should he swelling. It seems probable that 
seedlings were first raised in England a year or two later than they 
Avere in France. Chevalier Bernet, of 'I’oulouse, has generally l)een 
credited with being the first to I'aise seedlings in Europe, hut if he 
really Avere the first ho must have been very closely folloAA'ed by a l^fr. 
Isaac Wheeler, gardener at Magdalen llnll. Oxford, who is said to liaA'O 
raised seedlings from home-saA'ed s('ed in 18;;(). and in the folloAvi)ig 
