. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 278 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. little Chusan Daisy, so named from its native isle of Chusan and its Daisy-like formation. This was the commencement of the pretty Pompon group. The work of the hybridist was now being revealed, for the incurved varieties had been moulded into the form in which we see them at the present day, globular, regular, and painfully formal, and other types began to be heard of, such as the pretty little Anemone Pompons and reflexed varieties. It was, however, when Mr. Robe
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 278 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. little Chusan Daisy, so named from its native isle of Chusan and its Daisy-like formation. This was the commencement of the pretty Pompon group. The work of the hybridist was now being revealed, for the incurved varieties had been moulded into the form in which we see them at the present day, globular, regular, and painfully formal, and other types began to be heard of, such as the pretty little Anemone Pompons and reflexed varieties. It was, however, when Mr. Robert Fortune, on his second visit to Japan in 1861, sent over the Japanese varieties that Chrysanthemum culture in this land became in a measure popular, and one may imagine that the strange and picturesque flowers created an intense interest, flowers utterly unlike anything hitherto seen, and setting at defiance all the rules that governed the laws laid down by the florists of old. They were indeed a shock, big masses of petals, rugged and gloriously coloured, as unconventional as the incurved varieties were prim and formal. Such men, however, as Mr. Standish and the celebrated Adam Forsyth saw in these weird flowers from Japan great possibilities, and forthwith commenced to enlarge the group. The race extended, until this section constitutes the principal feature at all exhibitions, whilst for the greenhouse and for cutting none excel them in freedom or range of beautiful colours. The National Chrysanthemum Society has accomplished much work in promoting the culture of the plant. There is hardly a town in the British Isles that does not hold an annual exhibi- tion, and in America and France great enthusiasm is displayed in exhibiting and raising new varieties. The foundation-stone of the National Chrysanthemum Society was laid in 1847, the society then being known as the Stoke New- ington ; but with an in- creasing popular interest in the flower naturally its sphere of action e
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