January 16, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
809 
bottomed goblet-shaped glasses of highly ornamental 
character, cannot be employed for cut flowers in 
summer. 
A caution is necessary in the case of those who 
grow Hyacinths in glasses. At this season of the 
year they are placed on the sills of windows in full 
exposure to the light. That is an excellent place by 
day, but somewhat risky by night while frost pre¬ 
vails. Therefore it is well to take them out of the 
will evaporate, and a little fresh should be added as 
required. As soon as the spike of bloom begins to 
rise, a wire support should be fixed to the glass, and 
the support, which is attached to the spike to keep it 
in its place, gradually raised as the spike increases in 
height. 
The act of growing a few Hyacinths in glasses is a 
very pleasant feature of indoor gardening, and one 
not nearly so much followed as I think it should be 
have cropped up in one year ; but the improvements 
which many of them exhibit have caused the public 
to hail them with delight. 
The variety under notice has globular heads of a 
large size, suitable for exhibition purposes, and 
wherever it was shown last autumn, growers and 
connoisseurs of Chrysanthemums were highly 
pleased with it. The head, as a whole, appears of a 
bright yellow, and when examined more closely the 
window by night so that they may not be affected by 
frost. It is vexing to have a glass cracked and so 
rendered useless by the expansion caused when 
the water in the glass becomes frozen. Care 
should be taken that the water is sweet. Should it 
emit a disagreeable smell, it should be changed 
at once and replaced by fresh, washing the roots of 
the Hyacinth, carefully of course, and thoroughly 
.cleansing the inside of the glass. Two or three 
small lumps of charcoal are of great assistance in 
keeping the water pure, and the presence of charcoal 
in the water is said to have a fertilizing effect. As 
|he foliage deyelops and the flower spike rises, water 
Chrysanthemum J. Stanborough Dibbens. 
The measure of success is the measure of the amount 
of attention given to the bulbs during the time they 
occupy the glasses.— E. IV. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
J. STANBOROUGH DIBBENS. 
New incurved Japanese Chrysanthemums attained 
great prominence during the November and 
December exhibitions of last year, by reason of the 
large number of first-class new varieties which have 
been raised and brought before the public. It is 
sorne'ivhaf singular that go many of them shoplij 
florets are seen to be broad, blunt, clear bright 
yellow on the upper surface and sulphur yellow on 
the reverse. When in perfection the florets are 
regularly incurved, but later on the outer ones are 
reflexed and incurved at the tips, while the middle 
ones are reflexed, and the uppermost ones erect quite 
filling up the centre of the flower. These peculiarities 
may often result, however, from conditions of culture 
as well as the age of the bloom ; but when in its 
prime, the latter presents the regularly incurved form 
with interlocking florets shown in the illustration 
above, which was executed from a bloom sent us by- 
Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Cregn, 
Lewisham, S,g. 
