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of which 150 were raised in England ; and 250 
pompons of French origin. 
In 1862, Mr. Fortune introduced several 
Japanese varieties, and these in twenty years 
have increased to nearly 200 named kinds, 
some collections numbering nearly 800 va; 
rieties. From 1860 to the present time, the 
development of new varieties and colours has 
been rapid ; and in addition quite a galaxy 
of “summer flowering” sorts has appeared. 
Having a dwarf, free-flowering habit, these 
prove most useful for beds or borders or even 
window boxes, and often commence blooming 
in July or early in August. Their flowers 
are scarcely as compact as the later kinds; 
still they are useful additions to the family. 
Additions have been made to our list of 
novelties in the form of “sports”—acciden¬ 
tal changes in a stem or branch, either in 
the colour of the leaves or flowers, hut more 
generally the flowers, and which, if secured, 
seldom go back to the original, but for which 
botanists appear at a loss to account. It is 
certain that some varieties are more mutable 
than others. For instance, Queen of England 
has produced five or six distinct shades of 
colour; Cedo Nulli three, Dr. Brock three, 
Bob three, Beverley two, Trevenna two, and 
Hose d’Amour gave us Miss Wheeler (named 
after our chairman’s eldest daughter), and 
Miss Wheeler has in turn presented us with 
Mrs. Bateman. All of these are largely grown 
and retain their colours intact. 
The forms generally cultivated and ex¬ 
hibited are the Large-flowered Incurved, 
Reflexed, Anemone, and Japanese, the Small- 
flowered Pompon or Rosette, the Pompon 
Anemone, and the Quilled. 
The training of the plants in the convex 
and the pyramid form brings the entire mass 
of bloom at once into view, and is very attrac¬ 
tive. The Standard, or umbrella-shaped 
plants, are desirable in the greenhouse as 
smaller subjects may be ranged round and 
near them. There is one form of Standard 
which attracts, and that is the “ grafted ”—a 
number of varieties being worked on one 
stem, and forming a “living bouquet.” 
Grafting the Chrysanthemum is not a very 
ancient plan ; indeed, we lay claim to having 
introduced the practice as recently as within 
the last twelve years, the first plant ex¬ 
hibited in Oxford being grown by Mr. Howlett, 
at the County Hall. — W. Greenaway, Oxford. 
(Abstracted from Report of Lecture delivered 
before the Oxford Chrysanthemum Society .) 
THE HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA. 
HE portion of this noble work recently 
issued (Part V.), and which we were 
accidentally prevented from referring 
to last month, fully maintains the high 
character it had already attained as an album 
of accurate and natural figures of the choicer 
sorts of Apples and Pears. The interesting 
introductory and miscellaneous essays which 
in the previous parts occupied a portion of its 
pages, appear to be brought to a close, and 
the whole of the issue is devoted to the mag¬ 
nificently executed plates, twelve in number, 
and the corresponding descriptions of the 
varieties figured. We here give a summary 
of its contents : — 
Plate XXXVII. contains figures of the Golden 
Pippin, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed 
of our dessert apples ; Scarlet Golden Pippin, a bud 
soort of the old Golden Pippin; Franklin’s Golden 
Pippin, Hughes’ Golden Pippin, and Pitmaston 
Golden Pippin, all dessert sorts of high quality; 
and Pine Golden Pippin, an excellent variety of 
unknown origin. 
Plate XXXVIII. is devoted to Pears, and we 
have fine representations of Hacon’s Incomparable, 
Zephirin Gregoire, Winter Nelis, Chauinontel, and 
Napoleon. 
Plate XXXIX. represents several splendid apples, 
namely, Ped Ilawtliornden, Sleeping Beauty, School¬ 
master, Queen, Gravenstein, and Pymer. 
Plate XL. is devoted to Pears, of which the fol¬ 
lowing are represented :—British Queen, raised at 
Frogmore, Professeur Du Breuil, Baronne de Mello ; 
Napoleon III., quite different from Napoleon; Col¬ 
mar, Doyenne d’Alen^on, Besi de Quessoy, and 
Olivier de Serres, the two latter small winter pears 
of excellent quality. 
Plate XLI. includes pictures of five sorts of 
Apples, namely, Barcelona Pearmain, Scarlet Non¬ 
pareil, Ma'rgil, Cornish Aromatic and Cornish Gilli- 
flower, the latter said to be the best apple that is 
, known, if high flavour combined with rich subacid 
saccharine juice be the qualities we most desire. 
Plate XLII.—Of Pears we have in this plate 
figures of five sorts: Comte de Flandre, said to be 
an excellent November and'December pear; Bishop’s 
Thumb, a favourite old sort; Doyenne Boussoch, 
good if eaten at the right moment; Figue d’Alen^on, 
variable in merit; Marechal de Cour, one of the 
finest pears in cultivation, and very handsome. 
Plate XLIII.—A plate of Kitchen Apples, con¬ 
sisting of Hoary Morning; Gooseberry, which keeps 
“ till apples come again ”; Lemon Pippin, remarkable 
for the fleshy elongation which covers its stalk; 
Winter Colman, Green Woodcock, Striped Monstrous 
Peinnette, Northern Greening, and Yorkshire 
Greening. 
Plate XLIV. gives illustrations of the following 
Pears:—Citron des Carmes, Beurre Capiaumont, 
Colmar d’Ete, Fondante de Cuerne, one of the best 
early pears, ripe in August; and Beurre de l’As- 
somption, an excellent pear, larger and earlier than 
Williams’ Bon Chretien. 
Plate XLV. introduces us to a bevy of Cider 
Apples, of which the following are figured :— 
Joeby Crab, Cummy, Kingstpn Black, Royal 
Wilding, Wilding Bitter-sweet, and Green Wilding. 
