Chrysanthemums. 



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1 8 and September i.* In America, most of the crown buds are 

 selected between September lo and 15.! The difference in time may- 

 be due chiefly to chmate. 



(8) The later the bud, the higher the color.l 



(9) As a rule crown buds give earlier and larger flowers, which are 

 likelv to be deficient in some or 





all other respects. Chief among 

 these defects, for America, is the 

 long neck bare of foliage. 



(10) The earlier the crown the 

 greater the chances of failure. 



The difference in practice be- 

 tween England and America are 

 well worth setting forth. Crown 

 buds are used more commonly in 

 England, largely because of the 

 aversion to pinching out the lead- 

 ing shoot at any height. This 

 prejudice is probably not so 

 strong in America. The com- 

 mercial element is more prominent 

 here, and chrysanthemums for sale 

 as potted plants are started late, 

 kept as dwarf as possible, and 

 grown on side benches where there 

 is the least headroom. Such 

 plants are pinched as early as 

 possible to make them branch. In 

 England, the amateur and exhibit- 

 ing classes are stronger than in 



America, and the plants are started much earher and never pinched to 

 induce branching, but are grown under the " three break " or natural 

 system. The first break may come at any time from April to June i 5, 

 and at a height of from one to three feet. The second break is caused 



182. — Another pichire of a crown bud. 

 (This and figure 183 were adapted 

 from Mr. Molyneux's book and used 

 by Elmer D. Smith in the A //lerican 

 Florist, 9: 8, Aug., 1893. 



*E. Molyneux in The Garden, 2)A''22S (1888). H. S. in The Garden, 

 42 : 174 (1892). 



f E. D. Smith in Florists' Exchange, 5 1790, Aug. 1890. 

 \ C. E. Shea in The Gardefi, 38 1407, Nov. 1890. 



