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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
November  10,  18*8. 
Princess  of  Wales  and  all  the  Queen  of  England  types  are  excep¬ 
tionally  good.  The  best  Japanese  are  Edith  Tabor,  Mdme.  G.  Bruant, 
very  fine;  Gen.  Roberts,  Mrs.  J.  Lewis,  Australian  Gold,  Pride  of 
Exmouth,  Milano,  Mons.  E.  Rosette,  N.C.S.  Jubilee,  E.  Silsbury, 
Ella  Curtis,  Lady  Byron,  M.  Ad.  de  Rothschild,  Duke  of  York, 
Snowdon,  Mrs.  Maling  Grant,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Palmer,  Secretaire  Fierens, 
Dorothy  Seward,  Duke  of  Wellington,  Royal  Standard,  E.  Molyneux, 
Mons.  Chenon  de  Leche,  International,  Eva  Knowles,  Miss  Nellie 
Pockett,  A.  H.  Wood,  Mutual  Friend,  and  Mons.  Ed.  Andre. 
Hesslewood. 
Owing  to  a  change  of  tenancy  since  last  year’s  visit  to  this  fine 
old  place  we  found  considerable  alterations  affecting  the  gardens, 
somewhat  restricting  the  opportunities  and  energies  of  the  able 
gardener,  Mr.  Geo.  Picker.  Nevertheless  he  was  as  enthusiastic  as 
ever,  and  none  the  less  interested  in  the  Mums,  although  a  considerably 
smaller  number  are  grown  than  in  previous  years.  They  indicate  the 
same  intelligent  cultivation  which  brought  the  larger  collection  of  400 
plants  into  the  first  rank  in  this  district,  and  comprise  all  the  best 
known  varieties. — T.  G.  W. 
MR.  H.  J.  JONES. 
Mb.  H.  J.  Jones  of  the  Ryecroft  Nursery  has  one  of  the  most 
extensive  collections  in  the  trade,  and  his  plants,  which  are  now  in 
full  flower,  take  up  three  iarge  greenhouses,  through  which  crowds  of 
visitors  were  passing  when  we  called,  showing  that  if  no  man  is  a 
prophet  in  his  own  country,  Mr.  Jones  is  at  least  well  known,  and  his 
Chrysanthemums  much  appreciated  in  that  south-eastern  suburb 
of  the  metropolis. 
Miscellaneous  Continental  and  other  varieties  are  well  represented  by 
Chrysanth^miste  Bruant,  a  big  golden  chestnut  bronze  Japanese 
incurved ;  Madame  Leon  Toyerick,  deep  golden  ochre  yellow  with 
broad  florets,  forming  a  good  Japanese  incurved  ;  Rayonnante,  an 
exaggerated  and  finer  Lilian  B.  Bird;  Miss  M.  Donaldson,  a  true 
Japanese  of  a  delicate  shade  of  pink,  ]  retty,  but  not  over-large;  and 
Dr.  Noel  Martin,  'a  creamy  white  Japanese.  Others,  such  as  Emile 
Nonin,  golden  chestnut  incurved ;  Comtesse  de  Boulaincourt,  yellow 
Japanese;  Abbd  Brosson,  large  white  Japanese;  Fleur  de  Lilas,  pretty 
rosy  pink,  medium  size,  and  a  few  more  are  not  commonly  met  with, 
but  deserve  to  be  mentioned.  In  conclusion,  the  novelty  hunter  may 
do  well  to  keep  a  lookout  for  such  as  M.  Caillebotte,  purple  amaranth  ; 
Sita,  Tatiana,  a  fine  yellow ;  La  Marcadion,  incurved,  reddish  chestnut 
and  golden  buff,  upon  whose  merits  it  is  perhaps  premature  at  present 
to  pronounce. 
Not  large,  but  very  pretty,  is  the  graceful  pale  pink  Mrs.  F.  A. 
Bevan  ;  and  Mr.  Peter  Keary,  a  Japanese  with  drooping  reflexed  florets, 
and  of  a  fine  shade  of  velvety  purple,  reverse  silvery,  is  also  most 
attractive.  A  deep  golden  yellow  sport  from  the  well-known  Edwin 
Molyneux  ought  to  be  excellent,  judging  by  its  present  appearance; 
and  for  richness  of  colour  Royal  Standard,  a  striking  bright  crimson- 
and-gold  Japanese,  is  at  once  effective  and  rich.  A  few  others  of  the 
best  are  Mrs.  A.  J.  Baker,  large  and  globular,  narrow  florets  curly  at 
the  tips,  colour  pure  paper  white  ;  Duke  of  Wellington,  big,  solid  and 
globular,  a  Japanese  incurved  with  broad  florets  of  rich  golden  bronze; 
Mrs.  L.  Humphrey,  large  Japanese,  colour  pale  primrose  or  canary 
yellow ;  Lady  Hanham  ;  Mr.  A.  Barrett,  quite  distinct  from  Mrs.  G.  W. 
Palmer,  the  sport  from  Mrs.  C.  Harman  Payne,  and  several  others  in 
which,  perhaps,  individual  taste  will  play  a  large  part  in  allotting  the 
position  they  should  occupy  hereafter. 
The  seedlings  received  from  Mons  E.  Calvat  during  the  past  season 
or  two  comprise  a  grand-looking  incurved  called  Topaze  Orientale, 
beautifully  built,  very  deep  in  form,  and  of  a  pleasing  shade  of  clear 
pale  yellow.  .  Francis  Coppee,  is  a  deep  golden  shade  with  long 
florets.  President  Bevan,  a  noble  flower  of  its  type,  is  big  and 
massive,  with  numerous  narrow  grooved  florets  closely  incurving  and 
of  a  deep  golden  bronzy  shade.  Marie  Calvat  is  rather  rough  and 
loose,  a  long-petalled  Japanese,  colour  white,  faintly  tinted.  Le  Grand 
Dragon  is  one  of  this  season’s  novelties,  very  fine  long  florets,  drooping, 
and  of  medium  width;  a  rich  golden  orange  yellow  faintly  streaked 
with  red.  The  green  novelty,  Madame  Ed.  Roger,  is  curious ;  and 
Secretaire  Ri voire,  a  Japanese  of  pale  yellow.  One  of  the  noblest  and 
best  of  Calvat’s  1898  seedlings  is  M.  Fatzer,  a  Japanese  of  great  size 
and  substance ;  the  colour  a  deep  rich  pure  golden  yellow.  Melusine 
is  white  streaked  purple,  large,  but  not  very  taking ;  while  the  same 
cannot  be  said  of  General  Paquie,  which  has  flat  recurving  florets,  and 
is  of  a  very'  pretty  and  distinct  shade  of  golden  terra-cotta.  President 
Nonin  is  another,  somewhat  similar  in  build  and  colour.  M.  Hoste  is 
older,  a  large  white  Japanese  tinted  purple. 
Some  of  the  Colonials  here  as  elsewhere  do  credit  to  the  raisers  in 
the  Antipodes,  and  who  seem  to  understaud  the  kind  of  flower  most 
likely  to  appeal  to  English  tastes.  Oceana,  Australie,  and  Pride  of 
Madford  are  all  well  known,  and  to  them  must  now  be  added 
Chatswortb,  a  fine  deeply  built  Japanese  of  pale  pink;  Miss  Mary 
nderhay,  one  of  the  finest  and  best,  and  of  a  lovely  shade  of  rich 
buttery  yellow,  an  incurving  Japanese;  Beauty  of  Adelaide,  long 
florets,  colour  rosy  jink ;  Nellie  Pockett,  white ;  and  Miss  Vera 
May  Fraser,  a  charming  shade  of  golden  terra  cotta,  with  a  golden 
reverse. 
Here  there  is  an  unquestionable  difference  in  the  two  yellow 
Carnot  sports.  Both  are  grand  blooms,  but  G.  J.  Warren  is  certainly 
several  shades  deeper  in  tone  than  the  pale  primrose  yellow  of  Mrs. 
W.  Mease,  which  to  our  taste  is  by  far  the  more  chaste  and  pleasing. 
Mrs.  W.  Popham  is  big,  soli :,  and  substantial,  a  Japanese  incurved, 
very  deep  in  build  ;  colour  pale  purple  with  silvery  reverse.  H.  T. 
Wooderson,  of  the  same  section,  close  and  compact ;  colour  bright 
deep  rosy  pink.  In  yellows  Lady  Oporto  Tait  is  large,  and  Mrs. 
Mating  Grant,  different  in  form,  s  deep  golden  buff,  streaked  bronze. 
Princess  Charles  of  Denmark  is  golden  yellow,  James  B:  ooks  another, 
and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Barks  is  a  fine  bronzy  yellow  sport  from  Edith  Tabor. 
Very  deep  in  its  own  peculiar  shade  of  shiny  glistening  golden 
yellow-  is  R.  Hooper  Pearson,  a  Japanese  with  rather  broad  grooved 
florets.  Lionel  Humphrey,  of  the  Japanese  type,  is  large  with  flat 
drooping  florets  of  great  length ;  colour  deep  crimson  chestnut,  with 
a  golden  reverse.  Robert  Powell,  Julia  Scaramanga,  Vicar  of  Bray, 
are  but  varying  and  deeper  shades  of  the  primary  colour  of  our  popular 
flower. 
MESSRS.  CANNELL  &  SONS. 
The  Home  for  Flowers  at  Swanley  has  long  been  noted  for  its 
Chrysanthemums,  and  the  blooms  on  view  there  at  the  present  time 
are  well  worthy  of  the  reputation  which  Messrs.  Cannell  have  gained 
in  this  department  of  horticultural  enterprise. 
Among  home-raised  Japanese  of  varying  shades  of  yellow  Edith 
Tabor,  Ella  Curtis,  Baron  Tait,  C.  F.  Payne,  and  the  fine  Carnot  sport 
Mrs.  W.  Mease  must  not  be  forgotten.  Lady  Hanham,  the  beautiful 
Viviand  Morel  sport,  is  also  first-rate ;  and  in  whites  we  get  Mrs.  H. 
Weeks,  Lady  Byron  and  Kathleen  Rogers,  a  fine  Japanese  incurved  of 
good  size  and  substance.  Richer  shades  are  shown  in  Matthew 
Hodgson  and  Dorothy  Seward,  both  ot  which  are  very  fine. 
Calvat’s  novelties  of  the  past  and  present  seasons  comprise,  amongst 
other  grand  varieties,  M.  Fatzer,  a  very  large  deeply  built  Japanese 
incurved,  close,  compact,  and  solid,  colour  rich  golden  yellow.  Topaze 
Orientale  is  a  lovely  pale  yellow  incurved,  deep  and  regular 
in  form.  Mdlle.  M.  Expulson,  a  large  white  Souvenir  de  Malines, 
large  bright  brick  red,  tinted  and  tipped  with  gold.  In  very  rich 
shades  of  colour  Madame  Robt.  de  Massy  is  of  a  deep  velvety  purple 
with  silvery  reverse,  a  Japanese,  large  and  deep  in  build.  Le  Grand 
Dragon,  fine  Japanese  of  deep  golden  yellow,  has  already  been  men¬ 
tioned  in  the  N.C.S.  Floral  Committee  report.  Melusine,  very  long 
drooping  florets  white,  shaded  purple,  is  big  and  deep.  Sardou  is  not 
large  for  an  incurved  Japanese;  it  has  grooved  florets  of  a  reddish 
shade  inside  with  a  reverse  of  gold.  A  fine  yellow  is  to  be  found  in 
Tatiana,  which  has  long,  drooping,  narrow  florets,  and  is  of  a  beautiful 
shade  of  golden  canary  yellow ;  this  promises  to  be  quite  an  acquisi¬ 
tion.  Iserette,  golden  bronze ;  President  Nonin,  Australian  Gold, 
Beauts  Grenobloise,  white;  Congres  de  Bourges,  Madame  Ferlat, 
N.C.S.  Jubilee,  a  fine  pale  silvery  pink;  M.  Massange  de  Louvrex, 
yellow,  and  the  peculiar  green  Madame  Ed.  Roger,  are  all  a  season 
older  than  the  preceding,  but  by  no  means  the  worse  on  that  score. 
General  Paquie  is  a  very  fine  new  yellow  Japanese,  and  from  the  same 
set  comes  Marie  Calvat,  a  big  white  Japanese  slightly  tinted. 
While  holding  a  high  opinion  of  the  Continental  novelties,  we  are 
by  no  means  unmindful  of  the  special  claims  of  our  kindred  across  the 
sea  in  far  Australasia  ;  and  this  is  the  first  year  we  have  had  such  a 
capital  opportunity  of  seeing  so  many  Colonial  novelties  at  once.  We 
like  Mrs.  J.  T.  Tibbs,  a  pure  white  sport  of  Lilian  B.  Bird ;  and  also 
Mrs.  H.  B.  Higgins,  a  fine  large  white  Japanese  of  a  pure  creamy  shade, 
very  delicate  and  soft  in  tone.  Mr.  T.  Carrington  is  a  fit  companion 
for  such  monsters  as  Australie  and  Pride  of  Madford,  to  both  of  which 
there  is  a  slight  likeness.  Miss  Mary  Underhay  is  a  Japanese  incurved 
of  very  good  build ;  the  florets  are  of  medium  size,  regularly  incurving, 
grooved  and  ribbed  on  the  reverse ;  a  lovely  variety  in  colour,  being  a 
rich  buttery  yellow.  Purple  Emperor,  as  its  name  implies,  is  grand, 
velvety  purple,  and  silvery  pink  reverse.  Wonderful,  of  the  Wheeler 
type;  Euterpe,  rosy  mauve;  Nellie  Pockett,  white;  Mrs.  Bissett, 
S.  Kerslake,  jun.,  white;  and  Miss  Vera  May  Fraser,  a  lovely  shade  of 
terra  cotta,  exhaust  the  space  at  our  command  for  this  group. 
There  is  not  a  great  selection  in  new  American  seedlings,  most  of 
the  varieties  being  acknowledged  standard  sorts  like  Mutual  Friend, 
the  well-known  white  ;  but  Pennsylvania,  a  yellow  Japanese  incurved, 
and  Barrington,  a  Japanese  incurved,  of  deep  purple  with  a  silvery 
reverse,  are  new. 
We  noticed  nothing  new  or  specially  meritorious  in  the  Anemone 
section,  which  of  late  years  has  received  very  few  additions. 
Curious  but  unattractive  are  the  new  streaked  and  spotted  novelties 
raised  by  Delaux.  There  are  several  of  these,  but  there  is  plenty  of 
room  for  improvement  in  their  peculiar  characteristics. 
