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THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 9, 1895; 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MISS ANNE 
GAUNT. 
This Japanese variety is a cross between Sunflower 
and G. W. Childs. The blooms are of large size, 
very full, and rich yellow, with long and flat florets, 
the outer ones of which are drooping. The edge of 
each petal is lined with deep crimson, enhancing 
the general effect and beauty of the flower consider¬ 
ably, while at the same time rendering it very distinct 
and pleasing. The variety is a seedling of this year, 
and will therefore constitute one of the novelties for 
1896. The plant is of good habit and a strong 
grower. It is said to be undoubtedly one of the 
best and most distinct varieties of the year, and has 
been admired by everyone who has seen it. We 
have been enabled to give this illustration of it 
through the courtesy of Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm 
Nurseries, Tottenham (see next page). 
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HINTS FOR AMATEURS. 
Questions asked by amateurs on any subject pertaining 
to gardens or gardening will be answered on this page. 
A nyone may give additional or more explanatory answers 
to questions that have already appeared. 
Chrysanthemum Hairy Wonder.— Norma has a 
plant of the beautiful Chrysanthemum Hairy Won¬ 
der which is carrying three well-developed flowers 
that have excited a great deal of admiration from 
visitors. In the locality in which she lives hirsute 
flowers of this kind are a great novelty, for very few 
of the inhabitants visit the large shows of the 
popular autumn flower. Norma wishes to know 
whether there are any other varieties easy to grow 
possessing the same characteristics as Hairy 
Wonder, and if so, would like to be told their names 
so that she may be able to get them for another 
season. 
There is no doubt but that hirsute Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, of which the variety under consideration is a 
very good example, have, to use an American phrase, 
“caught on ” with the general public. The flowers 
seem to possess a quaintness and uncommon appear¬ 
ance that add not a little to their beauty and 
attractiveness. Two other good sorts of like 
character to Hairy Wonder are Louis Boehmer, 
deep purplish-rose with a lighter reverse, and White 
Plume, a sport from it which is one of the purest 
whites in cultivation. Both are of good habit, 
robust constitution, and being so easily grown may 
well receive Norma’s attention. 
Chrysanthemum Source d’Or.—This is the name of 
the variety of which you recently sent us a spray, 
H. F. It is an easily-grown variety, and as you say 
is a most profuse bloomer, and very handy for 
cutting from. You ask if it would be worth your 
while trying to grow it to produce large blooms 
next year, as the colour is so beautiful and distinct. 
We should not advise you to attempt this, as there 
are numbers of other sorts that give much better 
results when cultivated for large blooms. As a 
decorative variety, however, grown in a bush form, 
as you have grown yours, there are certainly none to 
surpass it, and comparatively few to equal it. The 
bright yellow form of it, which has been sent out 
duriog the last year or two, known as Golden Source 
d’Or, is quite as worthy a place in the list of good 
decorative sorts, whilst another form that in colour 
comes between the original Source d’Or and the 
golden sport has been brought out this season under 
the name of Fashion. In colour this last named is a 
rich bronzy-yellow, whilst in habit it is identical 
with the original. 
Mildew on Cinerarias—Yes, you are quite 
right Contra : the spots on the leaves of your 
Cinerarias are undoubtedly due to mildew. 
Injudicious ventilation is a chief cause of its 
appearance. Very often amateurs' plants are 
subjected to very trying conditions. Sometimes 
they may be forgotten entirely, and the frame or pit 
in which they are will be kept closed for the greater 
part of the day; then, perhaps, a lot of air will be 
given, with the result that the plants get into a sickly 
state of health and fall a prey to all manner of evils, 
mildew included. If the plants are not very badly 
affected an occasional dusting of the affected spots 
with flowers of sulphur is a time-honoured and an 
effective remedy ; for this course of treatment if per¬ 
sisted in will have the desired results. If there is 
much of the mildew about you might try washing 
the leaves very carefully -with a sponge dipped in a 
strong solution of soft soap. This may be made by 
dissolving a piece about the size of a small hen’s egg 
in a half a gallon of chilled water. 
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BATTERSEA PARK. 
An excellent display of the popular autumn flower 
has been given to the public at Battersea Park for 
some weeks past, which has during that time been 
patronised by numerous visitors. About 2,500 plants 
are grown in all, and of these nearly 2,000 are 
accommodated in a commodious span-roofed house 
measuring 110ft. in length, by 25ft. in width, with a 
height of 15ft. at the central ridge. The majority of 
the plants are arranged in a long sloping and 
slightly undulating bank on the right hand side of 
the door by which entry is made. Visitors upon first 
coming in have, therefore, a long panorama of floral 
beauty stretched out before their gaze, that, viewed 
in the mass, is most gorgeous. 
This somewhat stereotyped method of arrange¬ 
ment is rendered necessary by the internal arrange¬ 
ment of the house the greater part of the floor of 
which is taken up by a sunk bed that allows of the 
housing of large Palms to which, during the other 
seasons of the year, when the Chrysanthemums are 
not in flower, the house is devoted. This bed has, 
therefore, to be brought up nearly to the level of the 
path by means of planks for the benefit of the 
“ mums.’’ Another difficulty which rather handi¬ 
caps those in charge at Battersea is that as soon as 
the earlier varieties commence to flower the plants 
have to be banked up, to the no small detriment of 
the foliage of the later sorts. The plants are thus 
taken in from the open air much sooner than is 
altogether consistent with the welfare of a large 
proportion. But, despite all this, every nerve is 
strained to give the public something worth looking 
at . and indeed a careful inspection convinced us that 
in this matter at least there was no cause for 
grumbling. 
A special feature that impressed most favourably 
was furnished by a number of plants grown bush 
fashion, no stopping or budding being accorded 
them, and which were temporarily fastened over the 
doors, and to the lower portion of the roof on both 
sides of the house, from whence they hung down in 
long graceful sprays of flowers that vied with the 
larger blooms in vividness and beauty of colouring, 
while they possessed not a particle of the stiffness 
that must ever be present in a greater or less degree 
in the latter upon which so much care and trouble 
is expended in order to bring them up to show 
standard. Such well-known old sorts as Elsie 
Margot, Madame Bertier Rendatler, Soeur Melaine, 
and L’lle de Plaisirs were some of the sorts that 
were most in evidence. 
Among the large blooms were to be seen numbers 
of the best-known sorts which are figuring pretty 
conspicuously upon the show boards this season. 
Japanese varieties, as may be expected, were in mani¬ 
fest preponderance. Of these Viviand Morel, Miss 
Dorothy Shea, Gloire du Rocher, Florence Davis, 
Puritan, Mrs. F. Jameson, Vice-President Audiguier, 
Avalanche, Hamlet, Sunflower, and Charles Davis 
were all noteworthy ; some grand flowers of the two 
last-mentioned varieties being specially noticeable. 
A large ragged-looking bloom of Source d’Or was 
also very prominent; but this variety is not at all 
good when grown large ; it is much prettier and far 
more useful as a bush. Incurved varieties were also 
pretty strong. The palm in this section must, how¬ 
ever, be accorded to Jeanne D'Arc. Brockworth 
Gem is a sport from the last-named, and, whilst it 
is identical with it in habit and build of bloom, it 
differs from it in being of a rosy-pink hue. White 
Beverley, Empress of India, and its golden sport, 
Mrs. G. Rundle, Mrs. G. Glenny, yueen of Eng¬ 
land, Prince of Wales, and Princess of Wales were 
all very well represented, and scattered as they were 
amongst the Japanese varieties they looked very 
effective. The Anemone section was not so strong, 
a few sorts only being grown Of these Delaware 
was one of the handsomest. The guard petals are 
numerous and creamy-white in colour, and the centre 
is well-filled with the tubular florets. Mons Chas. 
Lebocqz, another pretty sort, has guard petals of a 
delicate blush pink, and some well-developed blooms 
of it were on show. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SOUVENIR DE 
PETITE AMIE. 
The blooms of this Japanese variety are built some¬ 
what on the same style as Avalanche, but during the 
earlier stages of their development more especially, 
they are widely distinct, charming, and graceful. 
As they progress towards perfection the great mass 
of florets in the centre rises up and gives depth to 
the bloom. The florets are of medium width, more 
or less incurved at the tips, and of the purest white, 
giving the whole a chaste and refined appearance. 
The habit of the plant is dwarf and vigorous, as we 
have already noted in several establishments this 
year. It was honoured with an Award of Merit from 
the Royal Horticultural Society on October gth last 
year, and with a First-class Certificate from the 
National Chrysanthemum Society on the 10th of the 
same month. We are indebted to Messrs. J. R. 
Pearson & Sons, Chilwell Nurseries, Nottingham, 
for the opportunity of illustrating this beautiful 
variety (see p. 163). 
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NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM 
SOCIETY S SHOW. 
The great autumn competition and fete was held in 
the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, on the 5th, 6th, 
and 7th inst., and though the day was rather wet ;; 
had no apparent damping effect upon the show. 
The light, too, was better than we have seen it on 
this particular occasion. The show itself was not 
appreciably larger than on former occasions, but the 
quality was greatly superior to what it has ever 
been. The cut blooms in many cases were remark¬ 
able for their enormous size, indicating skill on the 
cultivator's part, as well as great improvement 
amongst the recent acquisitions, especially the 
Japanese kinds. It would be rash to state that 
larger blooms cannot be produced in view of the 
magnificent new varieties. The incurved blooms 
came fully up to our expectations, but here again the 
large and new varieties are displacing smaller and 
old favourites. 
Cut Blooms. 
The Challenge Trophy class, constituting the 
National Competition of Chrysanthemum and 
Horticultural Societies, brought out five entries of 
rare merit. This was for twenty-four incurved and 
twenty-four Japanese blooms, and the Challenge 
Trophy, as well as £10, was taken by the Southgate 
and District Chrysanthemum Society. The blooms 
were all contributed Dy Mr. W. H. Lees, gardener 
to F. Bevan, Esq., Trent Park, New Barnet. His 
Japanese blooms were Mrs. W. H. Lees, Miss 
Dorothy Shea, Thos. Wilkins, Mrs. C. H. Payne, 
E. Molyneux, Mons. Pankoucke, Van den Heede, 
Madame Carnot, Chas. Schrimpton, H. L. Sunder- 
bruck, Viviand Morel, Mons. C. Molin, Madame 
Ad. Moulin, Mons. Geo. Biron, Louise, Chas. 
Davis, Mdlle. Therese Rey, Miss Rita Schroeter, 
Mdlle. M. A. de Galbert, Phoebus, Col. W. B. 
Smith, Mutual Friend, Eva Knowles, and Sun¬ 
flower. They were of marvellous size and in excel¬ 
lent condition. Amongst his incurved varieties 
Empress of India, Globe d’Or, John Lambert, J. 
Agate, C. H. Curtis, Violet Tomlin, Jeanne d'Arc, 
Robert Petfield, and others were simply magnificent. 
The second award was taken by the Bromley and 
District Chrysanthemum Society. The blooms 
were contributed by nine gardeners. So fine was 
this exhibit that in the absence of the first-prize lot 
one might have said that it would be difficult to 
beat. The Brighton and Sussex Horticultural 
Society took the third place with a fresh and even 
lot of blooms that crowded the stands. Some of the 
incurved blooms here were splendid. 
Mr. W. H. Lees again came to the front for 
thirty-six incurved varieties, taking the Holmes' 
Memorial Challenge Cup. He had grand blooms of 
Globe d'Gr, Robert Petfield, J. Agate, M. P. Mar- 
tignac, John Lambert, Jeanne d'Arc, Princess of 
Wales, &c. Mr. W. Mease, gardener to A. Tate, 
Esq., Downside, Leatherhead, took the second posi¬ 
tion with some grand blooms of Globe d’Or, Robert 
Cannell, John Lambert, Alfred Salter, &c. The 
Holmes' Memorial Cup for forty-eight Japanese 
varieties brought out great competition, and excited 
an immense amount of interest. Here again Mr. W. 
H. Lees secured the leading award against all 
comers. He had magnificent blooms of Mrs. W. 
H. Lees, Mutual Friend, Mons. Pankoucke, 
Phoebus, E. Molyneux, Viviand Morel, Miss 
Dorothy Shea, John Schrimpton, Hairy Wonder, 
