November 5, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
145 
condition of prevailed and “ The scarcity of fine 
quality Clovers in particular became early apparent 
and caused values to rule very high. At a later 
period the entire absence of these higher grades left 
an opening for the cheaper classes which were 
readily snapped up, and as a consequence the new 
season opens with a market that is absolutely bare 
of yearling offerings. In England the circumstances 
governing the new crop are very similar to those pre¬ 
vailing at the previous harvest, a long and severe 
winter followed by a generally ungenial summer with 
an over-abundance of autumn rains, has brought 
about a very unsatisfactory result, and in addition 
to this unkindness of the season at home in Ger¬ 
many the crop is short, and, owing to the drought, 
for similar reasons the crop in France is almost a 
failure. In America the outlook is uncertain and 
unfavourable, prices rule high and samples are weak, 
washy, and inferior.” 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. —The first meeting of the 
Executive Committee after the recess was held on 
the 28th ult., Mr. B. Wynne presiding in the absence 
of Mr. Marshall through indisposition. Mr. Barron 
announced that the special receipts during the 
interim amounted to over £530, including £500 from 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Veitch ; £6 6s. from the 
Wimbledon Horticultural Society ; £2. 2s. from the 
Burton-on-Trent Horticultural Society ; collected 
by Mr. G. W. Cummins at the Beddington Show ; 
10s. collected by Mrs. Bowerman at Hackwood 
Park ; 30s. from the Walkley Amateurs’ Horticul¬ 
tural Society; £6 collected by Mr. H. J. Clayton, 
Grimston Park ; ios. from Mr. W. Denning, 
Hampton ; £i is. from Mr. W. Miller, Ruxley ; 
£2 15s. 3d. from Mr. R. Dean, result of sales of 
flowers given by exhibitors at the Royal Aquarium 
and Earl’s Court Shows ; collecting boxes—Messrs. 
Sutton & Sons, Reading, £1 11s. 6d.; Mr. John 
Atheston, Preston, £1 ics.; Mr. J. B. Stevenson, 
Bournemouth, 12s. gd.; and Mr. J. Hamilton, 
Byrkley Gardens, Burton-on-Trent, 15s. The Com¬ 
mittee unanimously resolved to at once invest the 
£500 in accordance with the wishes of Mr. and 
Mrs. Veitch, and accorded them a hearty vote of 
thanks for their most generous gift. The usual 
votes of thanks were also accorded to the other con¬ 
tributors. A resolution expressive of the loss which 
the Committee has sustained by the death of Mr. 
C. H. Sharman, and of condolence with his widow 
and family, was also passed. Mr. Robert Ballantine, 
Chairman of Committees of the National Chrysan¬ 
themum Society, was unanimously elected a member 
of the Committee in the place of the late Mr. 
Sharman. 
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NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
The following new varieties were awarded First-class 
Certificates at the meeting cf the Floral Committee 
of the National Chrysanthemum Society on the 26th 
ult.:— 
William Seward. —This splendid new deep crimson 
reflexed "Jap” was described at p. 134 when its 
merits were recognised by the Floral Committee of 
the R.H.S. It is a show variety of rare merit, being 
as large as Etoile de Lyon, and a glorified Jeanne 
Deleaux in colour. The blooms run to 9-10 in. in 
diameter, and one of the flowers shown at the 
Aquarium contained about 500 florets. It was 
raised by Mr. John Shrimpton, gardener to W. 
Seward, Esq., The Firs, Hanwell, and the stock has 
passed into the hands of Mr. Norman Davis, of 
Lilford Road, Camberwell, for distribution. 
John Shrimpton.— This like the last named was 
raised by the gardener whose name it bears, and will 
also be sent out by Mr. Norman Davis. It may be 
said to be a greatly magnified Cullingfordii, and for 
general cultivation will take a high place. The 
plants from which the flowers were cut were 2J ft. 
high and carried four or five flowers each. The 
large leathery leaves are produced all the way up 
the stem close to the flowers. The latter are 7 in. 
to 7£ in. in diameter, and very compact, full and high 
in the centre. The florets are of a bright rich crim¬ 
son, and bronzy yellow on the reverse. The blooms 
are smaller and lighter coloured than those of 
William Seward, but more compactly arranged, and 
like that belongs to the Japanese reflexed section. 
Baron Hirsch. —The blooms of this new incurved 
variety measure about 5J in. in diameter, and 2\ in, 
to 3 in. in depth. For description see p. 134. It 
was exhibited by its raiser, Mr. Robert Owen, 
Castlehill, Maidenhead. 
Col. W. B. Smith.— The florets of this American 
variety are long, pointed, and incurved, but the outer 
and older ones soon become drooping and incurved 
at the tips. The upper surface is cinnamon buff, 
and the reverse old gold. It belongs to the Japanese 
section, and is perhaps not sufficiently incurved to 
be classed amongst the incurved Japanese. The 
blooms, moreover, are of great size with much 
material in the centre, but opening freely enough, 
and the compact portion measures 7 in. to 8 in. in 
diameter, but 10 in. or 11 in. if the longer flowers 
were spread out. This promises to be one of the 
best varieties the Americans have sent us. 
Ryecroft Glory.— This may be described as an 
early flowering decorative variety, growing about 
2% ft. high, and branching about a foot from the 
ground, and furnished with one to four flowers at 
the end of each shoot. The flowers are 2\ in. to 
4 in. in diameter, and bright yellow with broad, 
spreading, blunt-pointed 'florets, that are canary- 
yellow on the reverse which is very little shown in 
the fully expanded bloom. The same plant produced 
a crop of bloom seven weeks ago, and is again in full 
bloom now, and therefore very useful for decorative 
purposes. It is a seedling of this year raised by Mr. 
H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, 
Lewisham, who was the exhibitor, as he was also of 
Col. W. B. Smith. 
W. A. Manda.— The popular term applied to this 
variety is Yellow Ostrich Plume, a name fitly applied 
to it on account of the yellow flowers, and the bristly 
appendages covering the florets, but more especially 
on the back of the broad, incurved tips. The whole 
bloom measures about g in. in diameter from tip to 
tip of the outer and horizontally spreading florets. 
The central ones are incurved, of a bright, almost 
golden-yellow, but the outer and older ones are paler. 
They are tubular till near the tip where they divide into 
two lips, a broad lower one, and a narrow upper one, 
which becomes the lower one by the manner in which 
the tips are incurved. These characters give a grace 
and elegance to the whole flower which is, however, 
quite full in the centre. The plant attains a height 
of 4 ft. to 5 ft., has good foliage, and is easily grown. 
A stand of flowers was exhibited by Messrs. Pitcher 
& Manda, Hextable, Swanley. 
W. H. Atkinson.— The leaves of this variety are 
large, leathery, not very deeply cut, with bronzy 
purple veins and more or less purple underneath. 
The variety may be described as a reflexed Japanese 
with blooms 6J in. to 7 in. across. The florets are 
very numerous, broad, closely imbricated and salmon- 
red overlying yellow, with a pale yellow reverse seen 
only when the florets are still young and incurved. 
The bloom is of great depth and might well be 
described as a gigantic Triomphe du Nord, both as 
to shape and colour. It was a seedling raised by 
Mr. H. J. Jones, of Lewisham, but was exhibited by 
Mr. C. Blick, The Gardens, The Warren, Hayes, 
Kent, who was the grower. 
Mrs. Herbert Fowler.— The stems of this 
variety attain a height of 3 ft., and are densely clothed 
with large, leathery, moderately cut leaves. It may 
be described as an incurved Japanese variety, with 
globose flowers 7 in. to 8 in. in diameter and 4 in. 
deep, rosy purple, obscurely striated with darker and 
lighter shades, and silvery white on the reverse, 
shaded with pink. The florets are broad, incurved, 
spreading or ascending, and all of these being much 
mixed, both surfaces are about equally shown in a 
head of bloom. Flowers and a cut stem showing 
habit were exhibited by W. H. Fowler, Esq., Clare¬ 
mont, Taunton. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
NOTES. 
New Varieties at Maidenhead. 
A recent visitor to Mr. Robert Owen's nursery 
writes :—The new incurved, Baron Hirsch, described 
in your last number as golden bronze, is now of a 
bright chestnut colour with a shade of crimson. It 
seems that the early buds always come of the bronzy 
hue, and later on come of the true colour. The 
grand Robert Owen will, I fear, not be ready for the 
Aquarium, but Viscountess Hambledon may be suffi¬ 
ciently out by that date. They are proving more 
than equal to their early promise. Mr. Owen has a 
sport from Violet Tomlin, something of the shade of 
old John Salter, and sulphur yellow inside; also 
one of the prettiest of “ mums ” in colour, a seedling 
raised three years ago and an advance on the Felix 
Cassagneau recently certificated. 
New Varieties at the Ryecroft Nursery. 
Col. W. B. Smith. — This new American Japanese 
variety promises to be what Viviand Morel was last 
year, the flower of the season. It may be early yet 
to say what varieties among the season’s novelties 
will stand out with marked effect, but it looks as if 
this will be a clipper. Other noted growers also 
have it in fine form. I have seen it blooming on 
plants and in a cut state, and the flowers are very 
large, massive and yet in no way coarse. I he petals 
are somewhat incurved and a cinnamon or light 
chestnut hue, shaded with red. 
Mrs. Harman Payne.— This belongs to the in¬ 
curved Japanese section, and very fine indeed. Mr. 
Jones regards it as among the finest of the new 
flowers. It is of French origin; colour, deep rose. 
This is not at all a common tint in the section, and 
may prove to be a great acquisition. 
T. H. Dennis.— This is a grand, loose flat petalled 
flower of the style of Edwin Molyneux. The petals 
are not quite so long, but its true character will 
perhaps hardly be visible this season. The colour of 
the outside of the petals is deep red, and on the reverse 
bronzy-yellow. It promises to make a telling variety 
for the enlarged stands. 
President Carnot.— This is something after the 
style of R. A. Bahuant, and the blooms, while 
making up in fine compact incurved form, have more 
of golden the reverse of the petals than has the 
variety named. 
Hetty Dean.— This is not a big reflexed Japanese 
but it is a lovely ivory-white, a particularly pleasing 
flower that may develop larger blooms another 
year. Mr Jones justly regards this as one of the 
loveliest whites in cultivation, and I agree.— X. 
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TOMATOS AT CHISWICK. 
The Tomatos grown on the border in front of the 
old Peach wall at Chiswick during the past season 
afforded a useful object lesson as to what Tomatos 
may be expected to do in the open air in the south 
of England. Of course the past summer has been 
very favourable on the whole for that kind of crop, 
and what has been done this year it may not be 
possible to repeat the following year, should the 
weather be decidedly unfavourable. August and 
September are practically the months during which 
the fruits ripen ; for to have fruits before August it 
is necessary to have the plants well advanced under 
glass, and perhaps the aid of a wall to hasten the 
production and maturity of the fruit. Towards the 
end of September, unless that month is very dry, a 
considerable number of the large fruiting varieties 
are liable to be deteriorated by the splitting of the 
fruits. 
Altogether we counted 36 varieties in the. border, 
but for general purposes a sixth of them is all that is 
necessary ; others might of course be added in certain 
cases for the sake of variety if that is considered 
desirable. Foremost amongst those suitable for out¬ 
door work we would place The Conference, with 
fruit of medium size, but freely and early produced, 
four to eight in a bunch, and well set to the top of 
the stems. The flavour leaves little to be desired as 
far as Tomato flavour goes, and which we could 
desire to be a little more decided with less of the 
characteristic odour of the plant. When well 
ripened the fruits of course lose the greater part of 
this objectionable character. Chemin and Ham 
Green Favourite produce larger fruits of faultless 
form and smoothness, but like many other improved 
and tender skinned kinds the fruits are liable to split 
towards the end of the season with the accession of 
much wet. A variety named seedling (McGregor) 
produces fruit similar in size to that of Ham Green 
but more globular, deeper, and beautifully smooth. 
It may be considered as a second early, and is also 
liable to split. For indoor work it is an excellent 
sort producing beautiful fruits in quantity. Similar 
in habit is Advancer, but the fruits are more flattened 
than those of the last, slightly ribbed at the base, not 
very numerous in the bunch but fairly distributed to 
the top of the stems. The leaves are much curled, 
like those of Ham Green Favourite. To the above 
may be added Blenheim Orange for the sake .of 
variety, but it requires to be grown under glass to 
bring out the agreeable flavour in perfection for which 
it is noted. It bore a very fair crop, but is liable to 
splitting which soon spoils the flavour. 
The free setting and early ripening qualities of 
Horsford’s Prelude would lift it into the front rank 
