February 6, 1892. 
THE , , GARDENING WORLD 
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is light and friable, or even of a sandy nature, and 
occupies a sufficiently elevated position, then the 
planter should not hesitate to have the work accom¬ 
plished without delay. The soil under those con¬ 
ditions neither gets puddled or muddy in the opera¬ 
tion of digging and treading, nor will it get baked and 
cracked in the summer time to the injury of the 
roots. A good mulching of manure over the ground 
trees in good soil would not show any evil effects, 
more especially if the summer succeeding late plant¬ 
ing was a wet or showery one. 
There are cases, however, in which late spring 
planting is a necessity. The digging and preparation 
of the ground may not be completed till March or 
April. Low lying and wet or clayey land is seldom 
jn a condition for planting operations til! late in 
a seedling from Sarah Owen, and differs remarkably 
from that in being very broad and slightly flattened 
on the top. The florets are closely and regularly 
incurved, but twisted against the sun, of a bright 
golden-bronze, deepening to a reddish-bronze at the 
base, with a long, yellow, pointed tip. The bloom 
appeared at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on the 8th December, and was highly appre- 
Chrysanthemum Robert Owen—(Natural size,) 
as far as the roots extend would render the roots 
great assistance, by preventing the soil to some extent 
from getting frozen should a severe winter follow. 
The advantages of early planting would be most 
evident should a dry, warm summer succeed the 
autumn planting, for then the trees will have partly 
established themselves, and be better able to draw 
the necessary supplies of moisture from the soil than 
those which have recently been disturbed, and have 
made few or no young roots until the summer heat 
and drought is upon them. Small or relatively small 
spring, and such should be avoided as much as 
possible as far as fruit trees are concerned. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
ROBERT OWEN. 
We are now in a position to give an illustration ot 
this magnificent new incurved Japanese variety. 
The engraving was made from the only bloom the plant 
has yet produced, and which was. given us by the 
raiser, Mr. R. Owen, Castlehill, Maidenhead, It was 
ciated by everybody who saw it, but no certificate 
was awarded, because three blooms at least are 
necessary for this purpose, according to the rules of 
the Society. At the Royal Aquarium on the gth and 
xoth the highest award in the way of prizes was 
accorded it as the finest seedling in the show. The 
stem of the seedling was robust, and well furnished 
with good foliage when we saw it at Castle Hill in 
the last week of November ; and to all appearance it 
can hardly fail to become, perhaps, the most popular 
of varieties as an exhibition bloom, when once it gets 
disseminated amongst the Chrysanthemum growers 
of the country. 
