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180 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, December 16, 1856. 
other plants. How many thousands of most useful 
plants have been ruined this very autumn by being 
too much together the moment they were “ housed,” to 
make room for flowering Chrysanthemums ! 
The best conditions under which to flower Chry¬ 
santhemums in-doors to perfection would be to have 
them in a separate house, which would admit as much 
air to them day and night as if they were in the open 
air altogether, the borders and walks to be as dry as if 
for ripening Melons, and the balls about the roots never 
to be the least dry during the whole time they are in 
bloom, and since the bloom-buds became prominent. 
Then the next best plan is the nearest one can get to 
these conditions. 
The first best acquisition I shall name is a true sport 
from Formosum, an old one of the large kind, which 
most growers know, being a great favourite. It has a 
very pale sulphur flower, which turns to a soft whiteness 
at last. Well, this has sported to a deep golden yellow, 
and I believe it is to be called Nonpareil, a very appro¬ 
priate name. It will not come out till next season. 
President Morel, bright red and orange centre. Anemone, 
turning more into buff as it gets older, is a first-rate 
one for next year. Brunette, a stiff, erect habit, and 
yellow Anemone flower. Roquileure, Anemone flower, 
with orange centre, and guai’d of quilled florets of a 
rosy red and orange, a very droll-looking flower, which 
will please many next year. Desdemona next year, a 
large salmon and buff. Le Bourreau des Cranes, salmon 
red, with golden tips, fine next year. It is one of the 
hybrids. 
The following are the best large Chrysanthemums 
which were sold last season:— Alfred Salter, a large, 
first-rate flower, a blush pink, the best of that class, 
and with incurved petals; Fleurette, a very fine lilac 
purple; Genevieve, blush, turning to white; Mustapha, 
a tall crimson; Valerie, dark reddish buff' and half 
Anemone; and Vulcain, a fine red carmine. 
The following are the best new Pompones of last 
summer:— Abel, cinnamon and yellow centre, of the 
Ane mone section; Comte de Morny, very good violet 
flower; Fauchette, rosy lilac and white centre; Boule de 
Neige, a pure white Anemone, and the best of them ; 
Francois, orange red; General Canrobert, fine pale 
yellow; Louis XIV., chrome yellow, turning to white; 
Toinette, a light rose Anemone, with large guard petals; 
and Scarlet Gem, which is my own peculiar favourite for 
a flower-bed to succeed a bed of the American Groundsel 
early in September. It is a dark crimson scarlet flower, 
a very dwarf bushy plant, which requires no sticks or 
tying out for pot or bed; but there is a newer one of 
the Anemones which will take the lead. It has but a 
single row of guard petals, which are large and pure 
white, and a pale yellow centre, and I think the name is 
Madame Dentier, or some such name. 
Out of all Mr. Salter’s old large Chrysanthemums I 
noted the following as having flowered the best this 
season, while many more of this class were hardly fit to 
exhibit, and, therefore, may be the best for a bad season:— 
Auguste Mie, very fine this year, red, tipped with gold ; 
Beauty, a peach blush; Bossuet, fine rosy carmine ; 
Cassy, orange and rose; Dupont de lEure, every one’s 
favourite, orange and carmine; Eole, rosy primrose, 
very good ; Etoile Polaire, a fine golden yellow; Hermione, 
j another fine blush, tipped with purple in a cool place, 
: next to Alfred Salter and Queen of England (the latter 
did not fill up so well as usual this dull season); Le 
Prophete, a very fine large flower, of a deep fawn 
j colour; l’Emir, a reddish crimson; Miss Kate, a fine 
1 lilac; Mount Etna, red, of course; Pio Nono, very 
! good Indian red, with golden points; Plutus, a very 
i fine golden flower; Rosa Mystica, creamy rose; Stellaris 
Globosa, very good, a crimson and white; Trilby, a blush; 
Versailles Defiance, rosy lilac; and Zephyr, salmon red 
and yellow. Not one of these seemed to flinch; perhaps 
they are naturally of a more hardy constitution, and, 
being so, are proof against bad seasons. 
The following old Anemone-flowered kinds turned out 
equally well; but my own experience woidd say that all 
kinds of the Anemone-flowered are more hardy than 
the full flowers; and that I would account for from 
their being reverted, that is, in the first stage from a 
highly artificial state to that of the wild, natural form of 
the species. Fleur de Marie, the best white ; Nancy de 
Sennet, second best white; Gluch, fine golden orange; 
Marguerite de Versailles, blush ; Madame Gorderau, sul¬ 
phur ; Diamant de Versailles, fine white guard and rosy 
centre; Regulus, ciunamon; Romulus, rosy lilac and 
rose; Marguerite, bright rose guard, with a lighter 
centre. 
Now, if we turn to the Pompones of older standing, 
which of them kept up their credit the most under the 
severe trials,of this autumn ? They are the following :— 
Adele Prisette, a newish tall lilac, by the way; Aigle 
d'Or —take this “ all in all,” and perhaps it will turn 
out the best of all the yellow Pompones; Alexandre 
Pele, a bronzy salmon ; Arc-en-ciel, a very early one of a 
carmine colour; Aureole, very good, between crimson 
and scarlet, or the nearest we have to that colour; Cle- 
bois, a dwarf, stiff, small plant, with rosy carmine and 
light flowers; Creole, the last of the hybrids, very free 
bloomer, and of a dark salmon colour; Delilah, very good 
indeed, white, edged with rose, but heat spoils it; Durn- 
flet, another excellent kind, with rosy carmine flowers ; 
II Brasiero, very good, in the way of Mignonette; Ma¬ 
dame Pichaud, white and crimson; Modele stood the 
best of all the whites; Perle du Prado, peach ; Requiqui, 
still the best of the dark violets; Troph.ee is nearly as 
good as the last, and of a rosy mottled cast; and Sainte 
Thais is a first-rate flower, of a kind of chestnut colour 
which is difficult to define. All theso, and Ariane, a 
good Anemone, with a light red and yellow centre, were 
the best in the whole collection. 
In the Experimental Garden Marguerite de Valois 
was the best Anemone-shaped we had this year; a 
whitish guai’d, and the richest golden yellow centre 
you ever saw. We have made several converts to the 
Anemone kinds by this one flower. Pluie d’Or was 
very early, very dwarf, and about as good as Drin Drin, 
which was also early, and very good. Autumnum, the 
nearest to Spanish brown, very good also. Brilliant 
and Bob, two of the same cast of dark crimson aud 
orange, were particularly good. Bob is a notorious 
radical; he sports and changes about so. La Vogue, 
golden yellow, and Cedo Nulli, white, with brown tips, 
were both best. Cedo Nulli was better with me than 
last year; also better in Regent Street than even the 
splendid white one of it there from D. MacNiel, Esq., 
last year; but it is always better from the open air. 
President was also very good with us; but some fifty 
kinds did not open a bloom worth looking at out of 
doors. Colibri, a slender bush, is an extraordinary 
bloomer, but not nearly so good in-doors. Le Nam Bebe 
seems the hardiest of them all, and does much better out 
of doors, and is the only one of them that has a pleasant 
scent. Madame Roussilon and Requiqui, with Cedo 
Nulli, were very good at the last meeting of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, from Mr. Shrimpton, gardener to A. 
J. Doxat, Esq., Putney Heath. D. Beaton. 
INQUIRIES RELATIVE TO CULTIVATION 
AND HEATING. 
“ I have recently received from Paris seeds of Micro- 
spemia Bartonioides and Sphenogyne speciosa. Will you give 
directions for growing them ? Will they do to plant out in 
summer? I saw them last June in great beauty in the 
