December 21, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
251 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. 
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Holidays, next week's issue will 
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December. Correspondents and 
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by noting this, and by sending 
their communications and orders 
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NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Mrs. Charles Blick— New Pure White. 
T HIS Variety has receive! a First Class Certificate, National Chrysanthemum Society, October 23rd, 
1895; First Class Certificate, Birmingham, November 13th, 1895; First Class Certificate, Cardiff, 
November 13th, 1895 ; an Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society, October 29th, 1895. It was raised 
from seed by Mr. C. Blick, gardener to Martin Smith, Esq , The Warren, Hayes, Kent, the whole stock of 
which has been secured by ourselves. It is, without doubt, the finest pure white Japanese yet introduced, 
the flower is made up of a deep, dense but graceful spreading mass of long florets, which incurve slightly at 
their tips. The habit is very compact and dwarf, the foliage being an extraordinary size, indicating that the 
plant is very robust All who have seen the variety pronounce it to be a grand acquisiti’ n and a fine 
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" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
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Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , DEC. 21 st, 1895. 
Retarding and forcing flowers. —In 
v some tropical countries, having 
sharply defined seasons, plants are induced 
to grow and flower by an abundance of 
moisture, and on the other hand forced to 
rest by the absence of moisture, even 
although the temperature may actually be 
higher than in summer, or in any case very 
hot. The seasons in our temperate climate 
are determined by a low temperature in 
winter and a relatively high one in summer, 
when the larger proportion of hardy and 
many of the tender plants flower. Under 
normal conditions our floral calendar, there¬ 
fore, is a blank in winter with few exceptions. 
When large numbers of flowers are found 
out of doors during December they maybe 
ascribed to abnormal, although not un¬ 
natural conditions. Probably this has 
occurred to some extent in all ages since 
Britain enjoyed the climate it now possesses. 
Shakespeare may have had something like 
this in mind when he manes l£itania sa y to 
Oberon in “ Midsummer Night’s Dream :— 
“ And on old Hyenas’ chin and icy crown, 
an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds 
is, as in mockery, set; the spring, the 
summer, the chilling autumn, angry winter, 
change their wonted liveries; and the 
’mazed world,' by their increase, now knows 
not which is which.” 
Gardening is said to be the art by which 
nature is made to improve her own pro¬ 
ductions ; and to such an extent has this 
been carried in our day that Shakespeare, 
had he been alive, might have disdained to 
notify the fact on account of its commonness. 
The abundance of beautiful flowers in our 
hothouses, markets and florists’ windows, in 
the dead of winter, has been secured by at 
least three distinct means. Modern 
facilities for rapid transit have enabled us 
to enjoy the Roses, Violets, and other 
flowers of the warm and sunny South, and 
that, too, at wonderfully low prices. Heat- 
