November  6,  1896, 
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'Due  pMondes,  Eafant  des  Deex,  &c. — instead  of  placing  them  nnder 
M.  G.  and  E.  respectively,  as  was  the  former  custom. 
The  Jubilee  edition  consists  of  eighty-seven  pages,  is  stitched  in 
paper  covers,  and  is  published  at  the  price  of  Is.  It  may  be  had  either 
-cf  Mr.  E,  W.  Allen,  4,  Ave  Maria  Lane,  or  of  the  Secretary,  Mr.  R  Dean, 
Banelagh  Road,  Ealing. 
In  Australia— Sports. 
I  HAVE  taken  great  interest  in  the  articles  that  have  appeared  this 
.season  in  the  JotirrMl  of  Horticulture  on  Chrysauthemums,  and  having 
Fig,  79.— CHRYSANrHEMUM  AUSTRALIAN  GOLD. 
Re  varieties  sporting  at  different  places,  I  may  mention  that  the 
primrose  spirt  of  Lady  T.  Lawrence  was  fixed  here  the  second  season 
the  parent  variety  flowered.  I  have  also  several  sports  fixed  at  different 
times,  but  in  each  case  other  growers  had  sports  that  were  identical. 
Two  years  ago  I  had  a  white  sport  from  Louis  Boehmer,  but  having  the 
imported  variety  the  same  season  my  sport  was  not  required.  Last  year 
I  had  another  white  sport  from  Louis  Boehmer,  but  in  this  case  it  wa« 
devoid  of  that  hirsute  character  peculiar  to  its  parent.  Pride  of 
Madford  sported  in  this  district  last  year  ;  the  colour  is  much  duller 
than  the  parent,  but  the  reflex  is  gold.  During  the  past  flowering  season 
liad  experience  in  England  previous  to  1878,  and  can  also  claim  to  be 
dihe  first  to  grow  Cnry.-<anthemums  successfully  lu  thi*  country,  it  may 
be  of  interest  to  some  of  your  readers  to  peruse  a  few  notes  on  the 
•Chrysanthemum  in  Victoria, 
A  subject  that  would  appear  to  lead  to  more  controversy  than  many 
^others  is  that  of  sports.  Having  raised  some  thousands  of  seedling 
Carysanthemums  it  has  been  necessary  for  me  to  watch  closely  any 
.peculiarities  that  may  exist,  and  my  experience  has  been  to  get  more 
•sports  from  seedlings  (during  their  maiden  flowering  season)  than  has 
been  possible  to  obtain  from  the  same  number  of  plants  selected  from 
dhe  best  existing  varieties. 
I  saw  several  petals  with  a  distinct  gold  stripe  on  the  reflex,  and  I 
expect  to  have  the  same  kind  of  sport  during  the  next  flowering  season. 
A  correspondent  of  the  Journal  gives  the  cause  as  an  accidental 
growth,  but  I  fail  to  see  how  it  is  possible  to  have  all  these  accidental 
growths  produced  in  different  parts  of  the  world  at  one  time.  Another 
correspondent  attributes  the  cause  to  cross-fertilising,  and  toe  latter,  in 
my  opinion,  must  play  an  important  part. 
I  will  here  mention  an  experiment  that  will  throw  a  little  light  on 
i  this  very  interesting  study.  About  fivei  years  ago  I  grjw  a  plant  of 
i  Syringa  in  a  lO-inch  pot,  and  purposely  kept  it  from  flowering  until  ail 
the  Chrysanthemums  in  this  district  were  over.  I  then  placed  it  in  a 
