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Show I The Culture of the Crysanthenmm mlllS is ono of the most popular of all our autumn flowers, and every city and town of any size has, during the SjajSf month of November, its chrysanthemum show. But now 5b the time to get ready with young plants for return in the fall. If yon procure from a florist young plants now, you will, by taking proper earo of them, have good results when the time of blooming conies in the fall. More progress has been made in the impovc-ment impovc-ment of the chrysanthemum of late years than any other plants. Only a few years back, and our largest flowers did not measure more than two inches across, but today we have many varieties with flowers measuring ten inches and even more. These very large flowered varieties arc beautiful beauti-ful for conservatories or for windows. There is no work more pleasant than to grow successfully the large flowered chrysanthemum. There arc so many varieties differing in shapp and color. Few flowers present such possibilitic? for use in decorations. Of course, they can be grown in flower gardens, planted in the ground, and then lifted and potted on the approach of early frosts Hut it is better to commence with them in Utile pots, as rooted cuttings in April or May, ond sink the pots in tfie ground until time of lifting in fall. FOK AUTUMN SUCCESSES. To produce choice specimens in fall you must coiumcuco with small slock mentioned above. After the small plant begins' to grow, pinch oil: the top; this is done to make it branch. From now on keep them wet, never allow them even for u few hours to become thoroughly dry. They will soon throw out side shoots; after thcec shoots are about six inches long pinch each bhoot again. This produces more branches Keep this pinching process up, as the plant grows, but do not pinch them nfler thn tenth of August, for they will then need the rest of the season 'to grow and devclopi The object is to have a good, strong young root and healthy, thick plants and flower stalks and as many to each plant as possible. In growing them through summer always keep them in the sun. 'J he eliado of trees or a fence or building of any kind has a tendency to draw them up with long flower shoots, and too oflcn the result is that only two or three shoots flower, and even these nrc apt lo be indilfcrept. The soil lo grow chrynnthemums in should be good loam ond sand, ond plenty of fertilizer. Don't place thorn near enough together lo crowd the plants, but let Ihc air and miu he all around them. To keep them growing Ihcy should be watered twice a day in very warm weather, and once daily in cooler weather. Ab the plants grow you should be careful lo tic lliem out, so as to give each shoot a chance to develop. TO SECURE HIG BLOOM 8. To secure" the extra-sized flowers displayed by florists at chryanthcmiun shows, you will have to resort to the process of disbudding. Carefully Care-fully watch the development of the plant and when the first buds appear at the end of each shoot, select what you consider the strongest bud and snap off all buds but this one. If yon have a plant with six shoots inntcad of having, at blooming lime, bunches of indifferent flowcrh, with scarcely a perfect flower among them, you will have a" plant with six huge flowers, many inches across, which is nlwnyu to be preferred to clusters of smaller ones. On the approach of frost lift the pots, which, after cleaning, remove into shcltei, but give them still plenty of air, water and sun. Occasionally dust plnntB with powdered tobacco to kill insects. To grow chiyanthemuiiii successfully success-fully requires constant caro and attention, but when they flower they amply ropay Any one for the trouble. |