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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[February, 
Sir Joseph Paxton {Ely). —After Curzon, 
the oldest s.b. I have now on my list. Sent 
out in 1851, being a seedling of that year. 
A flower of noble proportions, full of colour, 
and very attractive, though far behind Curzon, 
which, when offered for sale, it was said to 
surpass. The petal is smooth and gently 
cupped, but slightly too long. Habit of grass 
compact; a tall grower, and prolific. Origin 
unknown. 
Thomas Bower [Dodwell). —A seedling from 
Curzon, set with pollen from the variety just 
described ; it follows the pollen plant in its 
colours, form, and fulness of flower, but is not 
so good a grower. Like its pollen parent 
also, it has the bad habit of splitting its calyx, 
unless very carefully tended in the process of 
blooming. 
Titian {Dodwell). —A thin flower, very 
boldly marked with dark maroon and rich 
scarlet; useful for the seedling raiser from 
the beauty of its petal. A seedling from 
Dreadnought, set with pollen from Curzon, 
and a good grower. 
Tom Brown {Dodwell). —A medium-sized 
flower of the Curzon type, from which it 
springs; very richly marked with brilliant 
colours. 
Tom Po’W'er {Dodwell). —A seedling from 
Sportsman s.f. Large, fine in form, smooth, 
and very boldly marked with rich scarlet on 
dark maroon ; in an average season it is one 
of the best s.n.’s, but is very early in bloom, 
and thei’efore will not bo so frequently shown, 
as its merits might suggest. A strong grower, 
but sportive. First bloomed in 1879 ; sent 
out in 1882. 
Wilfred Syms {Dodwell). —Another seed¬ 
ling from Sportsman, but of very different 
characterisation. The colours are rich, and 
the white ground pure, but there are three 
stripes of colour, or colours rather, in the 
petals of Wilfred Syms to one to be found in 
those of Tom Power. There is also as marked 
a divergence in their period of bloom, the one 
being very early, and the other late. First 
bloomed in 1879 ; sent out in 1880. 
William Spoor {Adams). —Kaised at Swal- 
well, in the neighbourhood of Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, from Curzon, set with pollen from Mars ; 
has one of the smoothest finest-formed petals of 
any of the class, and is beautifully and defin¬ 
itely marked with brilliant scarlet and maroon, 
but unfortunately the blood of Mars affects 
the white ground, and much depreciates what 
otherwise would be a high class and most de¬ 
sirable variety. A good grower ; sent out in 
1880.—E. S. Dodwell, Stanley Road, 
Oxford. 
[Mr. Dodwell’s former list will be found to 
commence at p. 16 of our volume for 1877.— 
Ed.] 
NEW SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
R. CANNELL’S Single Chrysanthe¬ 
mums find admirers.” So writes 
one of our contemporaries, and there 
is no doubt from the interest taken 
in them when exhibited, that this will continue 
to be the case, and that they will find as much 
favour as the Single Dahlias. They do not 
interfere with the florists’ section either in 
the one case, or in the other, and therefore 
in neither should we hear disparaging remarks 
about retrograde movements. The elegant 
Single Dahlias bred at Chelsea between D. 
coccinea and D. gracilis are not the discarded 
singles'of former days, as some folks seem 
to think, but a new race in which dwarfness 
and floriferousness are combined with neat 
elegant-shaped blooms ; and so it will be with 
the Single Chrysanthemums. They will be 
found to have their uses, and their adoption 
for these purposes, whatever they may prove 
to be, need not raise up any opposition to 
their distribution. 
These Single Chrysanthemums all partake of 
the habit of growth met with in the Pompons, 
than which they are still easier to grow. The 
only difference required in their management 
is to allow all the bloom buds to remain, for 
the smaller the flower-heads the more useful 
are they, and the more highly prized. 
The single varieties will be found to possess 
several advantages over the double-flowered 
sorts for decorative uses. Thus they flower 
later, and therefore are not so subject to mil¬ 
dew or to damp off. From their open struc¬ 
ture the air circulates more freely through 
the flowers and the sun more readily pene¬ 
trates the spaces between the florets, so that 
they hold on more firmly. The flower-heads 
last fully a fortnight if placed in water after 
being gathered, and scarcely show any sign of 
fading within that period. Moreover many 
of the varieties throw out lateral shoots which 
come into bloom at the end of December when 
flowers are few and precious ; and how useful 
these will prove for decorating the flower 
vases can readily be imagined. Altogether 
they have very much to recommend them to 
notice. 
The following sorts, all belonging to what 
wo call the New Departure type, were raised 
by C. L. Teesdale, Esq., of Chichester:— 
