CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE TEMPLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3432, 30 December 1885, Page 3

CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE TEMPLE.

There b only one display of chrysinthsmtissa to llw T«copte Giraoui, London, year, the ewrtocKwy §fit>*r io the Middle T»mp!e hating be«o discontinnad. Mr John Newton. jtarttaner to the Inner T»mpJe. Isur, howew, placed omit* a fine coQacttoo. and *»itf>ra are aanntteo free of ch»ri» from th« eastern end of the Thames Embankment. The exhibition will remain open for several wtcka, and sacb day for some little time forward may fc« expected «» add to the nn«nb«r and beauty of the blooms. JUarSy 600 plants in tutdoK; amiosed, and there w scarcely one wfefcfe » no's in flu*sr. Thirtyfour varieties ar» DO»«cqoMitiona,and their colors tend to pi of * that the coltiwrtieo of the tnedera d«mp crimsons, and rich rmi*, b gradually replacing that of the oldfaeMeaed yell<*w« and pinky whites, which formerly mcroepol&ed at'entloo. There b wfalßßg off in the a!iracti*»n«sa of the goldea yellow Gloria Mnndi, which Mr Ifewtoa himself has grown for twenty « W ff, Some So* specimens of the pore while Bfafr"!* may also be seen. Lm» ■iw't faeoritss are also well represented, amongst the is Marswt, a *ery law aonte with * white centre, faintly tinged with paw, and outer *»y» *f msy lilae; and He d« Fleon, red. tipped with "Other blooms which do not lose to popotarity, especially with ladies, are the Twadrssse, of exquisite mhiw« piak, sod the pr»t*y Tiaipb«oe, of bright orange »«d, with reverse of gatdea yellow. The striped, law. and gjotaMM petals of the Comte de Germtny l Jfaokeeo yetlo* here and there, lndkatae the presence of plaats which sx» olmotwly of foreign crista. and it may fee observed that-jane npoo 200 ere either Chinese or Japiwwse. The new varieti** eomwfa® B«mot< dse Jardio, G«l»Sbfr\ Co&hrf, Md&». Wei* (» solphar white), de Seeio, Yal d'Andorre, and a nsse-colorsd & >wer, whose general appearance completely jostiSss it* name—the Putsapiae.