THE GARDENING WORLD 
165 
November 10, 1900. 
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man ’’—Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER. F .L.S, 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER loth, 1900 . 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, November 13th.—Dulwich (2 days) ; Folkestone (2 
days) ; Hartlepool (2 days); Ipswich (2 days) ; Longton 
(2 days); Southend-on-Sea (2 days); Wimbledon (2 days); 
Chester Paxton (2 days); Belfast (2 days) ; Leeds Paxto" 
(2 days); Devizes ; Winchester ; Higheate. 
Wednesday, November nth. — Alsager (2 days); Banbury 
(2 days); Bristol (2 days); Caterbam (2 days) ; Chesterfield 
(2 days); Faversbam (2 days); Finchley (2 days) ; Hull 
(2 days); King's Lynn (2 days); Lewes and District (2 
days); St. John’s, Sevenoaks (2 day^) ; Sutton Coldfield (2 
days); Sutton, Surrey (2 days); Tonbridge (2days); War- 
lingham ; York (3 days); Vegetable Show at Messrs. 
Harrison & Sons, Leicester ; Evesham ; Buxton ; King’s 
Lynn (2 days). 
Thursday, November 15th.—Barnsley (2 days); Jersey Gar¬ 
deners (2 days); Lualow ; Scottish Horticultural (3 days) ; 
Stockport and D st-ict (2 days); Potters Bar ; Maidenhead 
(2 days); Manchester Royal Botanical Society ; ParkBtone 
(2 days). 
Friday, November 16th.—Blackburn (2 days); Bradford (2 
days(; Chorley (2 days) ; Bolton (2 days) ; Macclesfield 
(2 days). 
Saturday, November 17th.—Burton-on-Trent; Batley ; Brock- 
burn (2 days) ; Middleton (2 days). 
he Chrysanthemum in igoo.—A con¬ 
siderable amount of interest was 
created amcngst Chrysanthemum growers 
and others on Tuesday last by the appear¬ 
ance of a specimen with tiny yellow flowers 
sent up from the Royal Gardens, Kew, and 
exhibited both at the Drill Hall meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, and later 
on at the Royal Aquarium, where the great 
autumn show of the National Chrysanth¬ 
emum Society was being held. The plant 
was labelled Chrysanthemum indicum, 
Linnaeus, and described as a progenitor of 
the garden Chrysanthemum, raised from 
seeds collected in Yangtze by Mr. Grant 
Birch last year. The general belief is that 
this was the parent of the pompon varie¬ 
ties, and that C. morifolium (C. sinense) is 
the parent of the large forms. There are 
many garden intermediates, however, and 
it is possible that there are many wild ones. 
A few have been collected and honoured 
with varietal names, but discoveries in 
China may yet show that the large C. mori¬ 
folium, of Ramatuelle (the C. sinense, of 
Sabine), and the C. indicum, of Linnaeus, 
may be one and the same species in the 
broader sense of the term. The specimen 
shown had tiny, single, pale yellow flowers, 
about the size of a sovereign, not an inch 
larger, as Pat would say, growing upon 
slender stems, clothed with small and thin 
leaves. The bibliography and synonymy 
of the smaller and larger forms were given 
in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural 
Society , 1890, XII., 112, on the occasion of 
the Chrysanthemum Centenary Conference, 
held at Chiswick on the 5th and 6th 
November, 1889, by William Botting 
Hemsley, Esq., F.R.S., A.L.S., Keeper of 
the Herbarium, Kew. This same form was 
described by Sabine in Transactions of the 
Horticultural Society of London, IV. (1821), 
p. 326, tt. 12 and 13. 
Whichever way we look at it there is 
little doubt but that if the giant modern 
Chrysanthemum did not originate from C. 
indicum both the latter and C. morifolium 
had a common parent, whether that still 
exists or not. Had anyone prophesied 100 
years ago that either of the two forms 
would have given rise to giants like 
Madame Carnot, Australie, or Simplicity, 
he would have been regarded by his contem¬ 
poraries as romancing with the improbable 
if not the impossible, and placed in the 
same category as Baron Munchausen and 
Jules Verne. A single floret of many of 
the modern forms would be large enough to 
make a bloom of the tiny wilding C. indi¬ 
cum. The difference was remarkable as the 
small-flowered C. indicum stood alongside 
of the modern exhibition blooms at the 
Royal Aquarium. Turning from the pigmy 
to the giants in the same building we may 
say that they are still growing in size. 
Even if well grown Madame Carnot may 
not have been excelled, a considerable 
number of other varieties have been de¬ 
veloped to similar proportions. Some of 
the visitors were comparing the size of the 
blooms with their silk hats, and found that 
some of the blooms were as deep and others 
wider than the crown of the hat without 
straightening out any of the florets. When 
it first appeared on the exhibition table 
Nellie Pockett was a small bloom, but is 
now able to fill a place on the leading 
stands in the big classes. 
We were pleased to note a great rejuvenes¬ 
cence of interest in the incurved varieties, 
which have never been finer at the Royal 
Aquarium or anywhere, and not more 
numerously represented for many years 
past at the former place. It strikes us as 
peculiar that so many of the larger and 
best stands of this class should come from 
Mid-Surrey. Whether this is merely 
accidental owing to the best growers being 
resident there, whether neighbours have 
stirred one another to greater effort, or it is 
the result of soil and surroundings, it would 
be interesting to know. In the case of the 
winner (Mr. F. S. Vallis) of the Holmes 
Memorial Cup, we are told that this is only 
the fourth year since he commenced grow¬ 
ing Chrysanthemums. Many growers 
never reach the same standard, even after, 
it may be, twenty years’ experience. 
Amongst cut blooms nothing was finer 
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