This magnificent exhibit deserves a record in your journal. It was held at Horticultural Hall, 28th street, New York, about the 8th of November last. This hall is about 50 by 75 feet in area. No other flowering plant was shown.

I confess that I was very green, till I saw this show, about the wonderful variety of tint, and style of flower and of culture which this plant can claim. I think a good many of your readers will confess to the same ignorance. I always loved the flower. There was an instinctive cheer in its brilliant masses, sheltered in some nook, or beneath the southern windows of your home. My heart warmed to them as the courageous rear guard of retreating summer, against the grim advance of wintry drear and frosts. But this New York show revealed to me capacities of the plant for floral loveliness and magnificence that filled me with delighted wonder and surprise. I now sympathize with the heathen Chinee and his neighbor of Japan, who look upon the chrysanthemum as the rival of that floral queen, the rose.

The area of the hall was girt with a brilliant mass of gorgeous flowers. Around its sides, there ranged a belt of potted plants, from 8 to 10 feet wide. The grenadiers of the tribe stood against the walls, crowned on single stems 7 to 9 feet high, with flower heads 3 feet across. From these stalwarts gradually descended blooms of lesser stature and more bushy culture, till their flower heads stood not more than two feet above the floor. Thus that hall was girt with a terrace belt of rich and brilliant tints, and lovely styles of blooms which no pen can paint. Not only every shade of the spectrum had place among these colors, but their variety realized the wonderful range of tint in their combinations.

Through this amphitheatre, so walled around by floral loveliness, ranged four broad tables, solidly mantled by the cut flowers of the chrysanthemum. In variety of tint and style, and in size of flowers, these tables rivalled the potted plants. Many were doubtless new varieties of this plant, showing the wonderful aptitude of the seedlings to take in divers shade of colors and styles. Some flowers were as regular and staid in their petals as a double dahlia or an aster. Others sported a plumage as loose and curly as a cupid's locks streaming in the wind. Some were no bigger than a button, while others stretched out from that size to six inches across their petals.

To some of your readers, those rich and perfect trusses of bloom, lifted on their tree stems 9 feet above the floor, may be a familiar sight and habit of the plant. I confess that to me, those tall and slender trunks, stiffened by rods to uphold those brilliant masses of color, were a wonder and a surprise. I had never even dreamed of such a floral possibility, except in the woody standard of the rose tree.

One of the exhibitors kindly told me how the feat was done. In the spring you choose a shoot, stout and vigorous, and pinch, cut and keep down all the rest. As that fixed on to make your stalwart gets stature and stoutness, pinch out all its side branches or stems, keeping the base leaves of the pinched off shoots to give nourishment and girth to the trunk of your tree chrysanthemum. Thus go on till your flower head forms. From this, too, pinch out all weak and crowding shoots, so that your flower head has room to open with a glorious mass of bloom.

More than 500 distinct varieties were shown. The largest collection, and that to which the mass of prizes were given, was that of Messrs. Hallock, Son, and Thorp, of Queens, L. I. There were other exhibitors who, I think, shared with that house some of the highest prizes, but I do not remember their names. Bridgeport, Conn.

A correspondent says : " The exhibition was magnificent, both in specimen plants, cut flowers, and designs of Chrysanthemums. Autumn leaves and fern fronds were used in making up, and there were some elegant baskets, bouquets, etc. The loose natural arrangement was very effective. There were some flowers that measured nearly 8 inches in diameter. There were some marvellously large and perfect flowers of Comte de Germany and Grandiflorum, among Hallock & Thorpe's collection. They showed some wonderfully improved flowers in the Anemone class. A six-feet standard of Triomphe de la Rue de Chatelets was a grand affair. There was nothing more distinct in the yellows (Japanese) than Mrs. R. Brett, and hardly anything better in the pink section than Bouquet Fait; and it is hard to find a better flower than M. Moussillac in the high colored class. Fine specimen plants of the single Mrs. Gubbins attracted much attention. Galathee, Jeanne d'Arc, M. Moynet, Mrs. C. W. Wheeler, Hon. John Welsh, etc., were among the specially attractive and distinct sorts".