November 4, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
anthemum ; whether to the almost uni¬ 
versality of its culture ; in any case, the 
fact is as we have stated, 
, When it is assumed that such untoward 
febrile symptoms cannot continue to recur 
annually for long, we are disposed to con¬ 
cur, until there comes to mind the fact that 
not only is every year now bringing its 
crop of exasperating irritations in the 
wonderful variety of new flowers produced, 
but that interest in these novelties seems 
rather to expand than to subside. The 
point is, can this kind of flower production 
go on for ever ? Surely it must reach its 
climax some day. We have but to note 
the marvellous new flowers of the past and 
present years, to realise that if the end is 
not far off, then is the ultimate Chrysan¬ 
themum flower beyond human ken. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, November 6th.—St. Neots Chrysanthemum Show. 
East London Chrysanthemum Show (3 days). 
Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms, and every day in 
the week. 
Tuesday, November 7th.—National Chrysanthemum Society 
at the Aquarium (3 days). 
Liverpool Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Eastbourne Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Brighton Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Kingston Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Sevenoaks Chrysanthemum Show {2 days'. 
Leeds Paxton Society’s Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Truro Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Wells Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Wednesday, November 8th.—Evesham Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
N.C.S. Floral Committee. 
Pembroke Chrysanthemum Show. 
Bath Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Barnsley Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Brixton,'Streatham, &c.. Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Bournemouth Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Bath Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Dalston Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Guildford Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Isle ofThanet Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Northamptonshire Chrysanthemum Society (2 days). 
Thursday, November gth.—Lizard Chrysanthemum Show. 
Finchley Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Southgate Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Friday, November loth.—Reigate Chrysanthemum Show. 
Tenby Chrysanthemum Show. 
Exeter Chrysanthemum Show. 
Windsor Chrysanthemum Show. 
Derby Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Bradford Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Pontefract Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Saturday, November nth-—Bacup Chrysanthemum Show. 
Batley Chrysanthemum Show. 
Crewe Chrysanthemum Show. 
Rochdale Chrysanthemum Show. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER d^th, 1893. 
^^ORE ABOUT Chrysanthemums. — We 
^ plead guilty to the fact that, just at 
present, it seems utterly impossible to get 
clear away from the Chrysanthemum fever 
which is now raging. It is an annual 
epidemic that is, after all, very mild in its 
operation and innocuous in its effects. Still 
it will rage for a short season, and, so far 
as we can see, is likely to do so for many 
seasons to come. It is because of this dis¬ 
order, presumably, that we find poured out 
into current gardening literature such a 
flood of Chrysanthemum scribblings. 
Really there seems to be not a word that 
is new to be said, not a new idea to be 
expounded, not a new practice in relation 
to culture to be proclaimed. The flood 
rages at the time when the blood is at fever 
heat, but the season is soon over, and the 
collapse soon comes. It is hard to under¬ 
stand why this sort of thing should be. We 
do not get our blood up to fever heat over 
Roses or Dahlias, or even now over Daffb- 
dils, still less so over Apples, or Pears, or 
any other of our garden products. Whether 
it be due to the exhibitions and competi¬ 
tions—and we fear these bear a heavy 
responsibility ; whether to the size, beauty, 
or other attractive elements in the Chrys- 
P UBLic Chrysanthemum Shows. —Whilst 
all ordinary Chrysanthemum exhibi¬ 
tions are presumably public, they are so to 
the masses only on payment, and in that 
respect they differ greatly from the very 
remarkable and most interesting shows now 
on view for all and sundry in the London 
municipal parks. The Royal Parks have 
not got so low, we presume, as to have such 
very vulgar things as Chrysanthemum 
collections. They may suit the burgesses 
of Whitechapel or Bermondsey, Battersea 
or Finsbury, but would never do in IMayfair 
or Belgravia. 
There is an element about these munici¬ 
pal Chrysanthemum shows also that may 
shock the goody good, but in which all 
sensible people rejoice—they are open on 
Sundays as well as all the week, and it is 
on Sundays especially that our crowded 
streets and courts pour out their thousands 
of flower lovers, who go to the various 
municipal parks to enjoy the beautiful 
blooms that have thus been so thoughtfully 
provided for their delectation. The great 
charm of these exhibitions also to the 
masses is that they are their own, provided 
at the public expense. It is a principle we 
could like to see adopted far more widely 
throughout the country, for there are 
hundreds of these public parks and gardens 
in which there is little of floral attraction or 
beauty after the autumn tender flowers are 
done. Nay, we may well go further, and 
suggest that there are thousands of private 
collections which are so much shut up from 
the public gaze that their existence is 
hardly known, yet which might be thrown 
open to the public for a fortnight at least 
with excellent advantage both to the satis¬ 
faction of the public and the profit of our 
gardening charities. However, the splen¬ 
did example begun long since in London, 
and continued with such great liberality 
under the County Council, is one that 
should have national influence, and we 
hope to learn soon of numbers of similar 
public exhibitions in the kingdom. 
f TRAWBERRiES IN OCTOBER.—The enter¬ 
prise of a Cambridgeshire firm of 
Strawberry growers enabled them last 
week to pretty well boom their luck, such 
as it was, in obtaining a large crop of 
autumn Strawberries. That plants should 
have taken so eccentric a course as to thus 
fruit abundantly at a time of the year when 
the crowns should only be forming or 
plumping up prior to going to rest for the 
winter, is, having regard to the season that 
has been passed through, nothing singular, 
although it seems to have attracted great 
public attention. 
We hope, all the same, that not only the 
firm in question, but any other Strawberry 
growers, will have made the most of their 
unusual crop, for they cannot hope to eat 
their cake and have it too ; in other words, 
if they get from]their^plants_a crop of fruit 
