November 3,1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
149 
CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 
National Chrysanthemum Society. 
A meeting of the floral committee was held on the 
24th ult., when a considerable number of new 
Chrysanthemums in small exhibits was brought 
forward. Those which received First-class Certifi¬ 
cates are recorded on another page. Several new 
kinds, including Miss Florence Lunn, Burgess Hill, 
and Pallanza, the latter a promising golden-yellow 
variety, were exhibited by Mr. Briscoe-Ironside, 
Cedar Lodge, Burgess Hill. Mr. W. H. Lees, Trent 
Park Gardens, Barnet, had Wm. Tricker, and the 
beautiful sport from it. Messrs. J. R. Pearson & 
Sons, Chilwell, Notts, had some new varieties, includ¬ 
ing Sarah Hill. Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery. 
Hither Green, Lewisham, exhibited cut flowers of 
Hairy Wonder, Duchess of York, Alice M. Love—a 
beautiful, pure white, incurved Japanese sort, but 
rather small—M. Aug. de Lacvivier, and a group of 
Ryecroft Glory and E. Rowbottom, both acquisitions 
for the cut-flower basket. Mr. W. J. Godfrey, Ex¬ 
mouth, Devon, staged large blooms of Miss Ethel 
Addison, Comtesse de Galbert and Mons. C. Molin. 
The latter was commended, and others the committee 
wished to see again. Mons. E. Calvat, Grenoble, 
France, sent two stands of fine blooms, the best of 
which were Mrs. H. J. Jones, R. Ballantine, Reine 
d’Angleterre, and Amiral Avellan. Mr. W. J. God¬ 
frey had also two stands of winter-flowering Carna¬ 
tions, named Miss Mary Godfrey and Reginald God¬ 
frey. Mr. Robert Owen, Castle Hill, Maidenhead, 
showed seven varieties of Cannas. Mr. W. Wells, 
Earlswood, Redhill, showed a pea-green Chrysan¬ 
themum named Ethel Amsden, a sport from Viviand 
Morel; he also had new Japanese varieties named 
Standard, Golden Beauty, and Albini. Messrs. H. 
Cannell & Sons, S wanley, had a stand of large blooms, 
including Madame E. Ray, Miss Sturgiss, Interna¬ 
tional, and M. Aug. de Lacvivier; the latter is 
crimson-red with a yellow edge to the florets, and 
was commended, Mr. W. Peters, Leatherhead, also 
showed blooms of Miss Sturgiss. Prefect Robert 
was shown by Mr. Geo. Stevens, St. John’s Nursery, 
Putney. Mr. E, Beckett, Aldenham House, Elstree, 
staged some beautiful varieties, including Miss 
Goschen and Minnie Sireet. Mr. T. L. Turk, 
Cholmondley Lodge, Highgate, showed fine blooms 
of Prefect Robert, which were commended. 
Devonhurst, Chiswick. 
Considering the small size of the place, and its 
suburban situation, a large display of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums is made every year in the garden of E. H. 
Watts, Esq., Devonhurst, Chiswick. The garden is 
also opened to the public at a small charge for 
several days while the Chrysanthemums are at their 
best, and the proceeds are exclusively devoted to 
charitable purposes. Our object, however, is simply 
to make a few notes on the varieties now to be seen. 
There are 400 plants in three houses, to be arranged 
presently in such a way that the path will wind in a 
serpentine fashion through all the three. Some of 
the earlier blooms have been out for a month, while 
others are in all stages. Many of the varieties have 
done well, while others have flowered indifferently, 
and would seem to be particularly affected with the 
peculiar and sunless character of the season. The 
large creamy-white and imposing Primrose League, 
as well as the favourite and useful Wm. Tricker, 
have been in bloom for the past three weeks. 
Viviand Morel, Charles Davis, Florence Davis, and 
the orange-scarlet Gloire du Rocher have also done 
well, and show fine flowers in all stages of progress. 
Wm. Seward is a greater favourite here than John 
Schrimpton. The crimson-purple flowers of Presi¬ 
dent Borel have a silvery reverse. There is much 
material in Charles Blick, but it evidently requires 
more heat than some of them to develop the florets. 
Violetta, with soft purple flowers, is a good thing in 
the way of Margot or Etoile de Lyon. Beauty of 
Exmouth is beautiful though moderate in size, but 
Puritan is much larger, and white, with the cuter 
florets pink. W. W. Coles is very difficult to get in 
good condition, but here the buds are opening beauti¬ 
fully. 
The reflexed Japanese Niveous would be diffi¬ 
cult to beat in its class for a pure white. The 
comparatively little known Marchioness B. C. Sal- 
vatia is a beautiful white variety, with the florets 
loosely arranged and twisted in such a way as to give 
a graceful and charming effect. It is perfectly 
distinct from Florence Piercy, which is also twisted 
in a similar but not identical manner. Col. W. B. 
Smith is a tall grower but flowers well; Lord Brooke 
is similarly tall, but very late, as it usually is. Thos. 
Dennis, recently certificated, also grows tall, but pro¬ 
duces large purple blooms. Miss Dorothy Shea 
appears also to be a late variety. Edelweiss, a white 
Japanese variety, is promising at present. The 
golden-buff blooms of Madame Darrier belong to the 
true incurved type, and are very good. 
Chelsea. 
Chrysanthemums are more numerous than ever in 
the nursery of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, 
for the house usually devoted to them is full, and 
the Amaryllis house largely occupied by them. In 
the latter house we noted a large number of good 
kinds that have done well, including Avalanche, 
Louis Boehmer, Col. W. B. Smith, with buff-yellow 
flowers, Primrose League, Mrs. C. H. Wheeler, J. 
Stanborough Dibbens, Madame C. Harman Payne, 
Miss Dorothy Shea, Wm. Seward, John Schrimpton, 
and Charles Schrimpton. The latter has crimson 
more loosely arranged florets than John Schrimpton, 
and is both good and distinct. From the second 
crown buds of Charles Davis two bronzy-yellow and 
two yellow blooms have arisen from the same plant. 
Other specimens cut down in May are dwarf, and 
have produced pale bronzy-yellow flowers quite 
distinct from the rest. Viviand Morel shows an 
equally striking variation in colour. The first 
crown bud has given rise to pure white flowers, the 
second to pale rosy flowers, and those from the 
terminals are deep rosy-purple ; one variety has thus 
simulated three. La Belle d’Alger is in the style of 
Madame J. Laing, but the blooms are nearly white 
tinted with pink. Sherlock Holmes is an American 
variety with long yellow florets, and promises well. 
The large buds of Lord Brooke are progressing very 
satisfactorily. Beautiful and distinct is Silver Cloud, 
with creamy-white flowers, having a coppery or 
bronzy centre of peculiar and pleasing aspect. Dr. 
Masters is a Japanese variety with brilliant crimson 
flowers. Princess May is a beautiful white one, but 
it takes a remarkable length of time to develop. 
The plants in the Chrysanthemum house are 
arranged in a broad bank extending the whole length 
of the structure, and sloping gradually towards the 
door next the central walk. There is also a narrow 
side border of them all round the house. Although 
a number of the flowers are still in the bud stage, the 
display on the whole is good, and in excellent condi¬ 
tion. The blooms of Viviand Morel are of great 
size, as are those of the incurved Japanese Louise, 
which opens pink and ultimately changes to a dead 
ivory-white. It is certainly handsome, and the 
plants are dwarf. H. Shoesmith is like a straw- 
coloured Marie Hoste, and very pretty. The last- 
named may have broader florets, and is in grand trim 
at present. W. G. Newitt seems a good thing. 
Madame Cambon, with large and early blooms, is 
considered an improvement upon Comte de Germiny, 
being of the same shape and colour. None has 
been more admired this season than the golden- 
yellow incurved Japanese variety named Wilfred 
Marshall. 
Mrs. E. G. Hill, Mrs. Falconer Jamieson, and 
G. C. Schwabe have all done well. Bride of 
Maidenhead is purer white and more graceful than 
Avalanche, but otherwise much in the same style. 
Incurved Japanese varieties are represented in all 
shades of colour, as the visitor will soon find on 
examination. Peter Blair, with pale lilac flowers, is 
an addition to those above named. Mademoiselle 
Therese Ray, as every grower knows, was the best 
of last year’s novelties, for its shining, ivory-white 
florets are very chaste and charming. The long 
white florets of Rose Wynne are opening out well, 
and will form a large bloom when fully expanded. 
Quite of another style is L’lsere, a Japanese sort, 
with tubular florets of great length, and white, tipped 
with yellow. The blooms of James Myers are in the 
style of W. H. Atkinson, but of crushed Strawberry 
hue. The semi-globular flowers of George Savage 
are pure white and slightly bent upon their stalks, so 
that they face the beholder; they belong to the 
incurved Japanese type, and are very neat. Mrs. G. 
B. Darby has rosy-pink blooms and narrow florets. 
Excelsior grows tall, but produces well-formed and 
compact deep purple blooms of large size. 
Besides the various types belonging to the Japanese 
section, good varieties of other sections are grown 
and mixed about amongst the others. Madame 
Darrier, John Lambert, Alfred Salter, and Robert 
Cannell all belong to the incurved section, and may 
be seen in various stages of development. Japanese 
Anemone varieties have been augmented within the 
last few years with several large and distinct kinds, 
such as Sir Walter Raleigh (pink), Queen Elizabeth, 
John Bunyan, and W. W. Astor, the latter a blush one. 
The florets of the ray are generally very numerous, 
and slightly deflexed below the horizontal. One 
interesting point we might mention is, that sports 
occur in this as in other collections. A plant of 
Mademoiselle Lacroix bears two blooms of its 
ordinary white hue, and three yellow ones like those 
of the sport named Mr. C. E. Shea, or the yellow 
Lacroix. 
Battersea Park. 
Here the blooms are moderate in size, but very 
numerous, and the collection has evidently been 
flowering for some considerable time. A walk runs 
along the centre from door to door, and the plants 
form a bank on each side of this, sloping from back 
to front. Tall plants are trained up the rafters, 
two varieties being placed together so that their 
blossoms often intermingle. Between the rafters 
some shorter plants are placed, and all overhang the 
plants on the floor, greatly increasing the effect of 
the whole arrangement. Some of the plants trained 
upon the roof are grown upon the bush system, with 
numerous flowers. Amongst the large-flowered 
types Gloire du Rocher, Viviand Morel, Sunflower, 
and William Tricker have done well, and are con¬ 
spicuous at frequent intervals along the bank of 
bloom. The moderate-sized blooms of Mademoiselle 
Lacroix and its yellow sport are easily grown, and 
useful for decorative work of this kind. The same 
may be said of Elaine, which is even more neglected 
on the exhibition board. The broad-petalled and 
pure white Mademoiselle Marie Hoste is another 
choice thing, though only moderate in size. Others 
of the older ones, which are now seldom met with in 
collections that make any pretensions at being up to 
date, may be seen here, including Mons. Tarin (lilac), 
Source d’Or, and a number of the small, incurved 
varieties which used to be so common. Col. W. B. 
Smith and Florence Davis show off the charac¬ 
teristics of their kinds, the deep buff hue of the 
former being well brought out. A reflexed Japanese 
variety named President Hyde is evidently a 
favourite, judging from the number of specimens of 
it about. The blooms are moderate in size, but have 
broad, golden petals, and the plant is easy to grow. 
Bouquet des Dames is early, as usual, and good, 
forming a good companion to Avalanche. Alberic 
Lunden, with its crimson-red florets, is one of the 
darkest of its kind. 
The incurved varieties have hardly yet attained 
their best or characteristic condition, except in the 
case of the early flowering ones, particularly the 
small ones, such as Mrs. G. Rundle and Geo. Glenny. 
. Except for decorative purposes and trained speci¬ 
mens these two hardly ever appear in public now. 
The more recently obtained Mons. R. Bahuant has 
large chesnut-red blooms, fading to a much paler 
hue, and is early. The well-known Jeanne d'Arc is 
also in full bloom, but Lord Alcester is by no means 
yet fully developed. 
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HARDY PERENNIALS. 
There is no doubt but that hardy Perennials have 
“ caught on,” and that they are being most exten¬ 
sively grown. There is an immense variety of them, 
and they can be had in bloom almost all the year 
round ; indeed, except for a brief period when every¬ 
thing in the garden becomes locked up by severe 
frost, there is something in bloom. I have had 
Crocus speciosa, one of the most beautiful of autumn 
flowers, in rare form this season, and such things as 
Anemone japonica, Chrysanthemum maximum, 
Pyrethrum uliginosum, are still well in bloom. The 
Primrose is already with us, Violas and Pansies are 
in flower, and others too numerous to mention. A 
select collection can be made, including, of course, a 
few bulbous plants which the botanist does not in 
relation to many of them include as Perennials 
proper, because they say they are renewed every 
year by means of newly-formed bulbs. But as they 
appear year by year without any necessity for 
replanting, we will not trouble our heads about 
the little game Nature carries on under ground, and 
for our purpose include all such as Perennials. 
As a rule, hardy Perennials are accommodating as 
to the matter of soil, and the bulk of them will do in 
any good garden soil, and they are equally 
