November 9, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD- 
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immediately below them. There are also rose and 
white varieties (f the golden yellow, Golden Trevenna, 
and all are pretty and highly suitable for cut-flower 
purposes. 
One of the prettiest single kinds we 'noticed was that 
named Snowflake, with numerous long, narrow, closely 
arranged, pure white rays, and a small yellow disc. 
Pure Gold has shorter, less numerous, and broader 
rays of a brilliant golden yellow hue, with a small disc. 
Mrs. Le Moult is also very distinct in its rich puce- 
coloured rays, which are broad, but shorter even than 
variety shows the peculiarity so strongly developed as to 
produce the Endive-like characteristic of Macaulay. It 
was only sent out by Mons. Simon Delaux in 1887, so 
that the Chiysanthemum-loving public have hardly 
had time to thoroughly test the capabilities of the plant 
for general, decorative, and other purposes. Some 
cultivators state that the constitution of the plant is 
weak ; but it is a well-known fact that the constitution 
of every good new thing gets ruined for the first few 
years by excessive propagation. 
Our illustration of three blooms below represents as 
pots and for market purposes. Mons. Eoux, on the 
lower right-hand side of the illustration, is a crimson 
Japanese sort, with somewhat twisted florets, narikeen- 
yellow on the reverse, and very strong as a decorative 
or market plant. 
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THE CHISWICK CHRYSANTHE¬ 
MUM CENTENARY CELEBRATION. 
It speaks volumes for the popularity of the Chrysan¬ 
themum, that the exhibition and conference held in 
Popular Chrysanthemums : 1, Mandarin ; 2, Roi des Pe£coces ; 3, Mons. Eoux. 
those of Pure Gold. The broad-pointed, pale flesh- 
pink rays of Miss Eose give the moderate-sized heads a 
charming appearance. Produced as they are in such 
quantity, the flowers greatly resemble those of a 
perennial Aster. All the above-mentioned four are 
grown solely for their superior merits for cut-flower 
purposes, as they are both bushy, floriferous, and 
pretty. 
Popular Chrysanthemums. 
When well grown, Macaulay (p. 149) is a striking 
Japanese variety that has been compared to a finely-cut 
Endive. Although not exactly unique in having the 
florets lacerated and jagged at the apex, yet no other 
many varieties that are admirably adapted for decorative 
purposes. No. 1 is Mandarin, of Delaux, a large, 
compact-flowering variety, which, when it first expands, 
is of a creamy and pink colour, but as it gets old the 
florets deepen to rose. The variety must not be mistaken 
for the canary-yellow Mandarin, of Salter, there being 
two sorts in cultivation under the same name, and both 
are Japanese. Eoi des Precoees, on the upper right- 
hand corner, is a dark crimson Japanesekind, naturally 
of a dwarf and bushy habit, and consequently well 
adapted for conservatory decoration and cut-flower 
purposes. That, together with Source d’Or, golden 
orange, and Alexandre Dufour, rose-purple, might be 
considered as excellent subjects for growing in smalj 
the large vinery at Chiswick, on Tuesday and Wed¬ 
nesday, should have brought together a larger number 
of persons than have attended any of the previous 
conferences held there this year. The weather on both 
days was favourable, on the first especially so, and 
that may account for the presence of many of the mere 
sight-seers; still, that matters not, there they were—a 
goodly crowd—and right glad were all who take an 
interest in the maintenance of the gardens to see so 
many present. The show itself was an exceedingly 
interesting one, inasmuch as perhaps never before have 
so many varieties of the Chrysanthemum in some form 
or other been brought together. Every section was 
more than abundantly represented, and from that point 
