January  7,  1897. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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address  expressing  “  the  esteem  of  the  members  and  the  high  value  placed 
upon  his  services  as  Hon.  Foreign  Corresponding  Secretary,  together 
with  the  great  respect  and  appreciation  of  the  members  of  the  N.C.S. 
,  FIG.  1.— MR.  C.  H.  PAYNE’S  L’ORDRE  DE  LA  MERITE  AGRICOLE. 
for  the  many  valuable  and  ardwous  duties  performed  by  him  in  the 
interests  of  the  Society  daring  the  past  years.”  He  has  evidently  gone 
through  a  great  deal,  and  we  can  imagine  the  writer  of  the  well-deserved 
and  eulogistic  tribute  shedding  a  few  tears  of  gratitude  over  it  at 
Anderton’s. 
Mr.  Payne  has  during  his  office  of  Foreign  Secretary  been  twice  on 
the  Continent  in  the  interests  of  the  N.C.S,,  and  we  are  told  by 
an  outsider  that  he  had  the  honour  of  doing  this  at  his  own  expense.  It 
is  a  Payneful  list  altogether,  but  the  victim  is  wiry,  and  our  hope  is  that 
he  will  survive  the  inflictions  for  many  years,  for  he  combines  industry 
with  ability,  and  is  one  of  the  most  active  and  useful  men  in  the 
Chrysanthemum  world. 
A  Tour  Abroad  by  a  Happy  Trio. 
The  Editor  of  the  Journal  of  Horticulture ,  knowing  the  deep  interest 
that  is  taken  by  many  of  its  readers  in  all  that  concerns  the  Chrysanthe¬ 
mum,  has  invited  me  to  send  a  few  notes  relating  to  the  recent  wander¬ 
ings  of  the  deputation  sent  by  the  National  Chrysanthemum  Society  to 
the  continental. Chrysanthemum  shows. 
The  fame  of  the  N.C.S.  is  of  course  largely  due  to  the  magnificent 
exhibitions  that  the  Society  has  annually  held,  to  the  reports  of  the 
Society’s  proceedings  as  published  in  the  horticultural  press,  to  the 
publication  of  its  official  catalogue,  which  has  done  very  much  to 
popularise  the  Society  both  in  America  and  on  the  Continent,  but  very  little 
up  to  the  present  regarding  personal  contact  between  its  members  and 
the  growers  of  the  popular  flower  abroad.  In  1889,  about  twelve  months 
after  my  appointment  as  Foreign  Secretary,  the  centenary  of  the  intro¬ 
duction  of  the  Chrysanthemum  into  Europe  was  celebrated  by  several 
societies  in  France  and  Belgium,  and  it  will  be  remembered  that  some 
of  the  members  of  the  N.C.S.  we^e  invited  to  act  as  members  of  the  Jury 
at  the  Ghent  Chrysanthemum  Show  held  that  year,  and  that  they  went 
as  an  official  deputation. 
Seven  years  have  passed  since  then,  and  speaking  purely  from  a 
Chrysanthemum  standpoint,  there  has  until  the  past  season  been  no 
means  of  further  extending  our  acquaintance  with  the  foreign  growers, 
except  by  correspondence  or  of  making  fresh  friends.  And  what  perhaps 
is  of  importance,  we  have  been  unable  to  form  any  just  idea  of  the 
progress  in  cultivation  that  has  recently  been  made  over  there,  all  our 
information  on  that  score  being  second-hand.  It  was,  therefore,  with 
some  degree  of  satisfaction  that  I  received  a  few  months  ago  a  formal 
invitation  to  be  present  at  the  November  Show  of  the  Royal  Agricul¬ 
tural  and  Botanical  Society  of  Ghent,  and  to  know  that  several  of  my 
friends  and  colleagues  of  the  N.C.S.  were  to  be  similarly  honoured.  It 
was  a  still  further  gratification  to  find  that  the  Paris  Chrysanthemum 
show  would  also  be  open  to  us  on  the  same  terms  a  few  days  late}  ;  and 
my  previous  experience  being  limited  to  Belgium,  it  was  a  fortunate 
coincidence  that  such  of  us  as  went  would  be  able  to  gain  a  personal 
experience  of  how  they  grow  and  show  Chrysanthemums  in  the  two 
countries. 
Although  seven  or  eight  of  our  fellow  members  were  invited,  the  actual 
number  able  to  go  when  the  time  arrived  was  only  three — Mr.  H.  J. 
Jones  of  Lewisham,  Mr.  Thomas  Bevan  (the  Chairman  of  the  Floral 
Committee),  and  myself.  Besides  visiting  the  two  important  shows  of 
Ghent  and  Paris  we  decided  to  take  in  any  others  that  could  conveniently 
be  done  ;  but  we  found  that  in  our  short  stay  we  had  undertaken  almost 
enough  to  more  than  fill  up  the  time. 
Our  excellent  friend  Mr.  Bevan,  ambitious  that  the  N.C.S,  should 
shine  abroad  by  some  of  the  productions  of  its  members,  collected  good 
blooms  to  stage  at  the  Ghent  show  in  the  name  of  the  National  Chrys¬ 
anthemum  Society.  It  was  entirely  his  own  idea,  and  so  well  carried 
out  that  he  deserves  the  best  thanks  of  the  Society.1^  Messrs.  Cannell 
and  Jones  had  also  contributions,  and  our  luggage  assumed  alarming 
proportions.  I  need  not  recount  our  trouble  and  anxiety  in  getting  our 
precious  consignment  to  Dover,  nor  of  the  difficulty  in  transferring  the 
boxes  to  the  Ostend  boat;  but  at  length  we  got  them  on  board.  The 
flowers  were  carried  down  into  the  cabin,  and,  of  course,  placed  close 
against  the  stove.  Not  being  stove  plants  they  had  to  be  “re-arranged.” 
At  this  season  of  the  year  travellers  from  England  to  Belgium  are 
rather  few  by  the  night  service,  and  we  had  the  deck  entirely  to  our¬ 
selves.  The  night  was  black  and  overcast,  the  wind  was  keen,  and  after 
promenading  the  deck  for  a  time,  and  the  spray  having  an  unpleasant 
way  of  dashing  over  the  bows  for  a  long  distance,  we  retired  to  a  snug 
little  corner  and  began  to  relate  experiences. 
Mr.  Jones  had  just  returned  from  Belfast  and  Sheffield,  and  I  have 
always  held  that  travelling  is  good  for  many  reasons ;  it  enlarges  the 
mind,  it  increases  knowledge,  and  improves  the  conversational  pjwers. 
It  is  really  wonderful  what  a  charm  there  is  in  the  stories  of  a  traveller, 
and  our  friend  Jones  certainly  did  his  best  to  while  away  the  monotony 
of  crossing  the  Channel  on  that  bleak  dark  night  by  recounting  all  the 
curious  little  anecdotes  and  stories  he  had  gathered  together  up  to  that 
time  during  the  Chrysanthemum  season.  At  any  rate,  he  had  a 
sympathetic  and  appreciative  audience,  if  only  a  small  one,  and  we  all 
felt  somewhat  disappointed  when  the  lights  of  Ostend  appeared  in 
sight.— C.  Harman  Payne. 
(To  be  continued.) 
Confusion  in  Naming  Chrysanthemums  —  G.  J.  Warren 
v.  Yellow  Madame  Carnot. 
Under  the  above  heading  “  Interested  ”  (page  605)  writes  re  G.  J. 
Warren,  and  I  am  not  surprised,  for  on  November  18th,  1896, 1  submitted 
G.  J.  Warren,  yellow  sport  from  Madame  Carnot,  at  the  N.C.S.  Com¬ 
mittee,  the  entire  plant.  On  November  21th  the  same  was  exhibited  at 
the  R.H.S.  Ou  November  25th  Mr.  Jones  ordered  plants  of  this,  Mr. 
FIG.  2.— MR.  C.  HARMAN  PAYNE. 
Lees  having  also  ordered  plants  On  December  1st  Mr.  Jones  submitted 
blooms  to  the  N.C.S.  Committee. under  the  name  of  Mrs.  F.  A.  Bevan. 
I  was  also  asked  if  I  would  rename  my  G.  J.  Warren  Mrs  F.  A.  Bevan. 
