. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [SEriKMIiEK 19. varieties, iu his Spades Plantantm, giving it the name of Olirysiintltemum indicum, the title it has ever since re- tained. Rumphuis, in his Plants of Amboijna, published in 1750, and Thunberg, in his Flora Japonica, published in 1784, were the first to describe it fully, and to detail the success with which it is cultivated by the Chinese and Japanese. It is a native of their respective countries, and is their especial favourite. " The Chrysanthemum," says Mr. Portune, who resided in China two or thi
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [SEriKMIiEK 19. varieties, iu his Spades Plantantm, giving it the name of Olirysiintltemum indicum, the title it has ever since re- tained. Rumphuis, in his Plants of Amboijna, published in 1750, and Thunberg, in his Flora Japonica, published in 1784, were the first to describe it fully, and to detail the success with which it is cultivated by the Chinese and Japanese. It is a native of their respective countries, and is their especial favourite. " The Chrysanthemum," says Mr. Portune, who resided in China two or thi'ee years, " is the Chinese gardener's favourite flower. There is no other with which he takes so much pains, or which he cultivates so well. His Camellias, Azaleas, and Roses are well grown and well bloomed, but in growing all these we beat him in England. In the cultivation of the Chrysanthemum he stands unrivalled. The plants themselves seem to meet him halfway, and growjustashe pleases. Sometimes I met with them trained in the form of animals, and at other times they were made to resemble the pagodas so common in their country. Whether they were trained into these fanci- ful forms, or grown as simple bushes, they were always in high health, full of fresh green leaves, and never failing to bloom most profusely in the autumn and ; It was cultivated in England in 1764, by Mr. Philip Miller, in the Apothecary Company's Garden at Chelsea, being one of tlie new plants presented by him in that year to the Royal Society, in accordance with the will of Sir Hans Sloane, but it did not acquire much atten- tion from English gardeners until far into the first quarter of the present century. It is true that some of the Chinese varieties were imported into France in 1789, and were brought here the year following; but it was not until eight new varieties were introduced about the year 1808, by Sir Everard Home and Mr. Evans, and seventeen more varieties had been imported b
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