The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

TUB TEIIPLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. I

Cultivated by J. Dale, Gardener to the Hon.
Society of the Middle Temple.
The beautiful Gardens of the Temple—always
attractive throughout the year, always a charming
"green pleasaunee" upon the banks of the Thames,
between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges—have
of late become really one of the loveliest Sights
of London in November. By that time they are
literally one blaze of Chrysanthemums. They are
so at this moment, and they will well repay
the visit of any Londoner. The " show," for
this F•eason, in both the gardens, both Inner and
Middle, is more than usually magnificent : the
latter especially—namely, the show in the Gar-
den of the Middle Temple, where Mr. Dale's success
for the present year is, in truth, something quite
triumphant. Talk of the bouquets of a Pyrotechnist!
—all the glorious colours ever brought together, in
the shape of fireworks, arepositively as nothing to the
superb "burst" of colours in these chrysanthemums.
Colours the most exquisite and the most varied, the
most brilliant and the most delicate—red-orange,
and rosy-lilac ! golden-amber and ivory-white !
peach, and amaranth, and crimson, and orange-
carmine, and rosy-buff, and purple-canary ! Quilled
and striped, and minutely-tipped at every petal's
point with radiant hues—sometimes fiery-red, or
pale-sulphur, or orange-nankeen ! Here, for ex-
ample, is a catalogue of perhaps the very " pick"
and "glory" of the Middle Temple garden at this
moment :

Alfred Salter—delicate peach
Arigena—amaranth
Anazo—red orange
Beauty—peach
Cardinal—golden amber
Cassy—orange and rose
Dupont de L'Eure—orange and carmine
Golden Cluster—gold
Hermine— blush, petals striped up the back with purple
King —light peach
Leon Lequay—lilac
L'Emir—light red crimson
Lysias—red orange
Madame Poggi—crimson
Nonpareil—rosy lilac
Orlando—rosy buff
Phidias—rose and blush
Pio Nono—lndian red and gold
Plutus—bright gold
Queen of England—blush
Racine—gold and brown points
Them is—rose
Trilby—blush

Two-c-oloured Incurved—salmon and red—fine but sby
Versailles Defiance—bright rosy lilac
Vesta—ivory white
TVeib' Delight—very bright yellow

Comparatively brief though the list is when con-
trasted with the actual contents of the garden, it
may afford some notion at any rate of the variety
and splendour of the Middle Temple show of chry-
santhemums. It is taken—the above catalogue—
from the 9th page of the 2nd edition of Mr. Dale's
charming little treatiseon "The Crhysanthemum,"
recently published by Mr. Hodson, of Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn. A graceful little pamph-
let which we are glad to see is announced
very speedily to be followed by another
(we presume a companion) production from the
same hand—a brochure advertised under the title
of " The Town Garden and its Management."
Mr. Dale has certainly shown himself to be a very
competent authority both in regard to the " Town
Garden" generally, and " The Chrysanthemum"
in particular. And in splendid evidence of which—
then e is that blooming array of flowers now visible
to anyone who cares to go and seem them—yonder,
in that lovely and secluded garden, lying (a very
oasis in our smoky London !) midway between
the Thames and the Temple fountain.