December 16, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORI.D. 
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NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
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W. J. G. makes a point of growing and testing all the novelties as they are introduced, but will 
Catalogue only those which are likely to take a high place. 
At the recent grand Exhibition of the National Chrysanthemum Society, W. J. G. won the First Prize, 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER i 6 th, 1893. 
HRYSANTHEMUMS IN DECEMBER.— As WC 
were enabled to report last week, the 
December show of the National Chry¬ 
santhemum Society was a most marked 
success, far exceeding in extent and 
average quality general anticipations, and 
still further presenting, not a Chrysanthe¬ 
mum show in name, but in reality. Very 
specially has the policy which brought 
forward a show from January to December 
been justified, and indeed whilst the 
November exhibition must of necessity 
long remain the chief meeting of the 
Society, yet is it evident that both the 
October and December shows will grow, 
so that in time they may almost rival that 
of the centre month. 
Of course, we recognise the fact that the 
autumn has so far been one of great satis¬ 
faction to Chrysanthemum growers, and 
has enabled flowers to be kept wonderfully 
well. Still it is most obvious that all the 
great excellence seen at the recent show 
was not due to that one fact alone. We 
have widely extended our varieties, es¬ 
pecially in the Japanese section, and we 
have improved our methods of culture, as 
well as prepared more largely for botli 
early and late bloom production, so that 
various causes have combined to produce 
so great a success. Without doubt the less 
formal style of exhibiting flowers seen in 
some of the classes aided in rendering the 
show at once specially attractive as well 
as interesting. 
Other and varied methods of staging 
blooms at exhibitions seem to be greatly 
demanded. A call for a change is in the 
air, and the bunches or clusters seen at the 
Aquarium last week indicate one direction 
in which the desires of reformers may be 
met. It is too probable that myriads of 
growers, little anticipating such a fine dis¬ 
play, refrained from attending, to their own 
loss. Had they done so they would have 
been amply rewarded. New varieti^’S 
were very abundant, whilst some of the 
older ones, even such as Etoile d’Lyon, 
presented excellencies seldom seen in 
November. 
^Minter Zonal Pelargoniums. — No 
grower, trade or private, of winter 
blooming plants has made such a 
specialty of Zonal Pelargoniums as Mr. 
Henry Cannell has done. In any case, if 
others have done so they have generally 
hid their light under a bushel, for we know 
them not. The truly splendid display of 
these flowers in large bunches and in rich 
variety, brilliant and beautiful, which Mr. 
Cannell made at the recent Aquarium 
show, was yet but one of many which the 
same eminent grower has made for many 
years past at this the winter season, and 
the marvel is that hundreds, nay even 
thousands, for the sake ot the wealth of 
colour and beauty furnished, have not 
followed the example. 
We could very well wish that Mr. 
Cannell would now adopt some other 
method of setting up his flowers than is 
seen in the stereotyped conical bunch, a 
style doubtless most convenient for trade, 
but one far from doing the flowers justice. 
Perhaps ere the winter is out we may be 
privileged to see at the Drill Hall a dozen 
or so of Zonal Pelargonium bouquets, each 
of one variety and all dissimilar, set up 
artistically with fern or other foliage, if but 
just to show how very attractive these 
blooms may in that way be made. Surely 
such a style should help to encourage their 
wider culture in winter for cutting pur¬ 
poses. We have had proof that, the petals 
duly gummed, a work soon performed, these 
flowers will keep fresh and beautiful for 
fully a fortnight. And indeed Zonal Pelar¬ 
goniums are very easily grown and got into 
bloom in the winter. 
Cuttings should be rooted in warmth in 
March, grown on in pots singly, occasion¬ 
ally pinched, hardened by exposure to the 
sun for some time during the summer out 
of doors, and not allowed to bloom or to 
make free growth until autumn. Then they 
should be allowed to go away, c 5 mmence 
blooming from the beginning of October, 
and in gentle warmth they will do so pro¬ 
fusely all the winter. No doubt at 
Swanley the little top heat furnished in the 
Pelargonium houses is found most valuable 
in preserving the blooms from damp. 
That is an auxiliary heating force that may 
easily be furnished to any low greenhouse, 
and one of light, airy, and of very moderate 
height admirably suits winter Zonal Pelar¬ 
goniums. 
f UDGES AND JUDGING. —Some very odd 
things in relation to judging and judges 
crop up now and again, which serve some¬ 
times to bring committees into ridicule, 
at other times the men selected as judges. 
A recent case in which a northern com- 
