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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ Septemdee, 
Turner, for Dr. Ahercromhie, a fine, new, and 
very distinct, heavy red-edged Picoteo ; also 
for Baroness Burdett Coiitts, a medium, purple- 
edged, with a fine broad petal, and excellent 
habit, a very desirable variety, even in this 
already very rich class. Two other varieties 
shown by Mr. Turner also gained this honour, 
—Heather Bell., a large, fringed, pale pink, 
flower of the fancy class; and Coroner., raised 
by Mr. Barron at Chiswick, also of the fancy 
class, with a beautiful petal, very smooth, and 
of excellent contour ; one of the indescribable 
shades of soft carmine-crimson which defy word- 
painting, and must be seen to be understood. 
Finally, Mr. T. S. Ware, of Tottenham, received 
a First-class Certificate for C'//roj?!fheZ/a, a clear, 
pale, yellow-ground Carnation, flecked and 
striped with white. 
At 2 p.m. the Judges, exhibitors, executive, 
and friends joined in a modest luncheon, the 
chair being filled by the excellent President 
of the Society, G. F. Wilson, Esq., and a very 
happy genial hour was passed. Mr. Shirley 
Hibberd, in response to the toast of “ The 
Horticultural Press,” demonstrated that the 
Carnation was the oldest florist flower known to 
cultivation ; and when the toast “ Continuance 
and prosperity to the National Carnation and 
Picotee Society, Southern Section,” was pro¬ 
posed, the warmth of the response left no 
doubt as to the hold the Society had obtained 
in the affections of those present. The finan¬ 
cial honorary Secretary reported that even in 
these sore days of depression and bad trade, 
the subscription list had been fully sus¬ 
tained, and a hearty desire, coupled with a 
confident belief, was unanimously expressed 
that the Society, under its excellent manage¬ 
ment, should long continue and prosper.—T. 
Moore. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUTESOENS 
COMTESSE DE ChAMBOBD. 
MS NOTE on this variety of Chrysanthemum 
or Argyranthemum frutescens, which is 
one of the most popular of Parisian 
market-plants, has lately been published in 
the Revue Ilorticole (p. 268), where we learn 
that some specimens, which appeared at the 
Palais de ITndustrie, demonstrated that this 
common plant, so easy of culture as to be within 
everybody’s reach, was able to compete in 
attractiveness vath those which are considered 
to be the most ornamental, so that “ although 
aristocratic by name, it is in its use a demo- 
cratical plant in the full acceptation of the 
term.” M. Poiret-Delan, gardener to M. Leduc, 
of Puteaux, who cultivated the examples which 
thus attracted so much attention, has given an 
account of his mode of cultivation, from which 
we abstract the following, premising that 
these plants are greenhouse shrubs, originally 
from the Canaries, and produce a profusion of 
elegantly-cut foliage, and of large, white-rayed 
composite flower-heads, not unlike those of our 
native Ox-eye Daisies. 
This, writes M. Poiret-Delan, is how I 
operate :—I slip cuttings early in August, and 
repot about the beginning of October into 
small 4-in. pots. In the course of the winter, 
the pots are changed every time the roots 
carpet their sides, so that the growth is not 
hindered, This is essential, and on it depends 
success in obtaining fine examples. The plants 
are placed in the open ground every year, 
after flowering, and must have copious and 
frequent waterings. In the autumn they are 
potted in pots proportionate to their strength, 
and taken in-doors before cold weather sets in. 
In winter they are kept in cold frames or green¬ 
houses, and successively pinched-in up to Feb¬ 
ruary 1st, when they are repotted, so as to 
obtain a fine head of flowers. 
One of the most important operations in 
order to obtain plants of large dimensions, 
is the pinching-in or topping. There is, how¬ 
ever, nothing absolute about it, as it can bo 
practised at divers times and at divers lengths, 
subordinated to the form one wishes to give to 
the plants; only it is important, and even 
obligatory, that the last pinching should be 
not later than the fii’st days of February. As 
sooir as the blooming is finished, the plants 
must be cut in, and the ball of earth more 
or less reduced, so as to remove a portion of 
the old roots. They are then to be planted in 
open ground, whence they are taken up and 
potted before the arrival of winter, as before. 
It is thus that M. Poiret proceeded to 
obtain the three plants that he exhibited at 
the Palais de I’lndustrie, which, although not 
then three years old, measured 7 ft. 4 in. in 
diameter, and 5 ft. 8 in. high, and were grown 
in large tubs of 20 in. across. The soil used 
corrsjsted of a mixture of good garden earth, 
to which a considerable proportion of well- 
rotted good manure was added.—M. 
