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the frost or bad weather comes on, the pots are 

 removed into the house, and placed where they 

 have light and free air, thinning the flower-buds 

 occasionally, in order to ensure large blossoms. 

 This mode of cultivating the Chinese Chrysan- 

 themum has been followed for several years with 

 the greatest success by Mr. Joseph Wells, gar- 

 dener to William Wells, Esq., of Redleaf, near 

 Tonbridge. . 



Mr. Wells says, '' the plants, when treated in 

 this manner, are very different in their appear- 

 ance from the Chinese Chrysanthemums, as 

 usually grown; they have no shoots from the 

 roots, which allows the strength of the plants to 

 go to the blossoms, a single stem rises from the 

 pot, and at the height of four or five inches 

 branches off into two, three, or more flowering 

 stems, from one to two feet long, terminated by 

 large flowers, and covered in their whole length 

 by vigorous foliage." 



The Count de Vaude has had these plants cul- 

 tivated in the highest perfection at his garden at 

 Bayswater, where they have always been flow- 

 ered in pots. No. 38, which size seems best suited 

 to the Chinese manner of growing them. Mr. 

 Loudon says, in his Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 

 *' The true mode of displaying the beauties of 

 this charming flower is to keep it in pots, and 



