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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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to older varieties, would send me specimens and descrip 
tions, with the names of the kinds the seed was saved 
from, I could then make ray lists more full, perfect, and 
useful. As I have been very lately writing on the culture 
of the Antirrhinum, I will commence with that flower. 
NEW ANTIRRHINUMS. 
Annie Salter. This is a fine spotted variety of 
medium size, with a rose-coloured tube, and white sepals, 
spotted with rose. 
Bellona; a large flower, of good form, with red tubs 
and yellow sepals. 
Constance ; flower medium size, with white tube and 
crimson sepals, blotched with white; very fine and 
distinct. 
Cramotsie Royal ; a large flower, self-coloured, dark 
crimson-violet; very fine. 
Empress ; Medium size, with rosy-blush tube, and 
white sepals; fine and distinct. 
Gaiety; curiously striped with red on a yellow 
ground; fine. 
Horace ; yellow, distinctly striped with scarlet. 
John Edwards ; a large flower, with white tube and 
rose petals blotched with white. 
Lady Hastings; medium size, sulphur - colour, 
curiously netted with purple. 
Lord Palmerston; large flower, with white tube, 
and dark red sepals, spotted with white. 
Lutea ; a dwarf grower, of a clear self sulphur- 
colour ; suitable for bedding. 
Madame Riedel ; a large flower, blush, striped with 
red; a distinct variety. 
Sir Chari.es Napier ; medium size, with clear white 
tube, and bright rose sepals. 
Sultan ; a large flower, with white tube and red 
crimson sepals. 
Sulphurescens ; a large flowered self, of a very 
light sulphur-colour, almost approaching to white. 
NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS.— Pompones or Dwarf. 
Anna Boleyn ; fine form ; orange-buff colour. 
Aurore Boreale ; full-petalled, salmon centre, and 
each petal tipped with gold. 
Bob ; a large flower, of a velvety scarlet; new and 
desirable. 
Brilliant ; large and fine, and of a rich crimson- 
scarlet. 
Bouquet de i.a Reine ; a good flower, white centre 
tipped with carmine. 
Didon ; a full flower, of a clear lilac colour; very 
distinct and fine. 
Eglantine ; blush edges, yellow centre. 
Fadette; rose, mottled with yellow; very much like 
a Ranunculus. 
John Salter ; a full flower, of a carmine and orange 
colour; very desirable. 
La Radieuse ; full; colour violet, silvered over with 
white ; a singularly beautiful flower. 
Le Tropique ; lull, and of a dark orange colour. 
Nemensis ; orange-brown ; rich and full. 
Mont Blanc ; full; pure white ; superior to Argentine. 
Pluie d’Or ; very double; golden-canary colour. 
Socazes Gaston ; a fine purple flower. 
Vjctoreuse ; full, and of a beautiful blush colour. 
The original Pompone Chrysanthemums were sent 
over to England by that successful collector, Mr. 
Fortune, from Chusan, in China. We called them the 
Chusan Daisies, to which flower, indeed, they bear a 
considerable resemblance. They were freely distributed 
by the London Horticultural Society, and have been 
greatly improved, both in form, size, and colour, so 
much so, that they are advancing much in public esti¬ 
mation. The continental florists have increased the 
variety so much that they are almost innumerable. 
They are great ornaments to the greenhouse in the 
autumnal months, serving admirably as a foreground or 
front rank to the large varieties. 
NEW LARGE-FLOWERED CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Auguste Mie ; a large, noble flower, of fine form; 
colour a lively red, tipped with gold. 
Due de Rohan ; full, and of a clear rosy-violet 
colour. 
Hermine ; a desirable variety, of a fine blush colour. 
Irene ; full; blush and purple shade. 
Ixio; large and full, and of a dark yellow and carmine 
colour. 
Le Prophete ; medium size; very double; and a 
pleasing fawn or orange-buff colour. 
Madame Le Bois; full and large; colour blush, 
centre edged or tipped with clear rose; a very pleasing 
flower. 
Pallas; red centre, yellow tips; a fine variety. 
Prince Jerome ; full and perfect in form; straw 
centre, tipped with crimson; very beautiful. 
Phane de Memine ; a noble flower, of a novel 
colour, namely, red-claret. 
We are indebted to our continental brother florists 
for the greater number of our improved large-flowered 
Chrysanthemums. I suspect the hot summer of a con¬ 
tinental sun ripens the seed better or more freely than 
we can possibly do in our damp, cold autumns. Hence, 
English florists have not the power to produce so many 
seedlings as our brethren on the other side of the water. 
T. Appleby. 
{To be continued.) 
STOVE FERNS. 
{Continuedfrom VoL xi .,page 443.) 
HEMIONITES. 
A curious dwarf tribe of Ferns of considerable 
beauty. On account of their dwarf habit they are 
suitable for small collections, and their singular beauty 
recommends them even to the largest. The name is a 
very ancient one. It was given to the genus by that 
ancient writer, Dioscorides, and is derived from hemionos, 
a mule, because the plant was supposed to be barren, 
an erroneous idea, for the plants not only produce seed, 
but are actually viviparous, that is, producing plants on 
' the leaves. The principal generic character consists in 
! the superficial netted seed-vessels. 
H. palmata (Hand-shaped).—A West Indian Fern of 
great beauty. The fronds are of two kinds, barren and 
seed-bearing; the fertile grow erect, about a foot high, 
with the seed-vessels standing out above the surface, 
and covered with net-work. The sterile fronds grow 
horizontally, or nearly so. Both are hand-shaped, or 
palmate, with five deeply-cut divisions, hairy, and pro¬ 
ducing at the bottom of each linger-like division a knob 
or bud, which in time will form a plant, if taken off 
when roots are beginning to appear, potted, and placed 
under a bell-glass, in a close, moist heat. I have grown 
this species exceedingly large and fine in the Orchid- 
house. It requires a high, moist temperature to grow 
it to perfection. Cultivators that have no Orchid-house 
should place this plant among moss kept moist, and a 
large bell-glass or hand-light over it. 
HEMITELIA. 
Under this name are arranged some of the tallest and 
noblest Ferns in the world. Name derived from hemi, 
half, and teleia, perfect; the seed-vessels forming the 
appearance of half a cup of regular form. I hese seed- 
vessels are most beautiful objects when viewed through 
a microscope. The cup is then plainly seen with the 
spores piled up in it. 
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