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THE GARDENING WORLD 
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a rich and massive appearance that can be seen from 
a great distance. By pruning back the more ram¬ 
pant shoots annually, this Corn us can be kept dwarf 
while the strong young shoots produced as a con¬ 
sequence keep up the vigour and fine appearance of 
the bush. The prunings can be used as cuttings in 
the open ground, or their tips may be taken earlier 
in the season and rooted in heat. Plants may be 
used as edgings to large beds, or clumps may be 
CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 
Battersea Park. 
Chrysanthemums generally are considered some¬ 
what later this season than usual. The show house 
at Battersea Park has been open to the public for 
about a fortnight ; but when we saw it, the plants 
would have required ten days or a fortnight to be at 
their best. Some of the early varieties were how- 
and is there easily reached from the Middlesex as 
well as the Surrey side of the Thames. 
White and yellow varieties are well represented, 
and amongst the former are Avalanche, 
Mademoiselle Lacroix, Eynsford White and Elaine. 
The latter is not quite so broad in the petal as 
Eynsford White, otherwise the varieties are much of 
the same character. Bouquet de Dames is so early 
that only the later flowering plants are now in bloom 
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grown by themselves or mixed with other fine 
subjects such as the Golden Privet, Purple Hazel, 
Golden Elder, purple-leaved Barberry, Prunus 
Pissardi, Negundo aceroides variegata, and many 
others too numerous to mention. The illustration 
was prepared from specimens received from Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
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Tansy, an old-fashioned plant in English gardens, 
is largely used in America as a safeguard against 
moths. The leaves are sprinkled among clothes, and 
the moths give them a wide berth. 
ever in full bloom, so that they together with the 
midseason and late ones extend the flowering period 
considerably. The plants are arranged in a wide 
sloping bank along one side of the house, while the 
pathway for the public runs along the back, between 
the two doors. The display in a week's time will be 
well worthy of a visit by lovers of this class of plants, 
and will reflect credit upon Mr. Coppin, the super¬ 
intendent. The earlier and more forward of the 
varieties were most in evidence when we saw them, 
so that our remarks will be mostly confined to them. 
The house is situated at the west end of the park, 
close to the Albert Gate as well as the Albert Bridge, 
Golden yellow varieties with more or less reflexed 
florets are Sunflower, Mr. Garnar, and Phoebus. 
The early flowers of Viviand Morel from the crown 
buds are of a pale rosy purple, and inferior in point 
of beauty to the later blooms. The bronzy crimson 
of M. H. Elliot changes to a bronzy buff as the 
blooms get older. M. Freeman, with its rosy pink 
florets and silvery reverse, maintains its dwarf and 
early flowering character. Another old sort named 
Gloire Rayonnante has tubular purple florets that 
point in all directions. Mr. C. E. Shea is better 
known as the Yellow Lacroix. J. R. Pearson is a 
pleasing white variety tinted with pink. 
