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lor cut flowers. These are grown with from 8 to 15 flowers per plant, 

 giving a large number of the small and medium sizes for which there is 

 always a good demand. The single varieties are also grown in this way, 

 but without disbuddinj:;. The sefond lot of cuttings are put in the sand 

 about the 15th of March followed by another lot as soon as the cuttings 

 are ready, which usually is about a month later. Should we be short 

 on any varieties, more of these are put in as soon as large enough. 



We get out benches ready for the young plants between the 15th of 

 June and the 1st of July, placing about one inch of coarse manure on the 

 bottom of the bench, then filling with soil, and adding one-half inch of 

 manure on the top to be worked into the soil. The plants are placed 7 

 inches apart in the rows and 9 inches between rows. We have found 

 very little difference, if any, in the size of blooms grown two on a plant, 

 branching the plant about ten inches from the soil, and those grown to 

 single stem. This is true with all varieties except white and yellow 

 Eaton, which are better grown to one flower. No feeding whatever is 

 done until the buds show, and then about one-half inch of manure is put 

 on the beds. This is all the plants get in the way of feeding, as they 

 receive the most good out of this dressing at the time needed, as, through 

 the daily watering, the fetrength grows less as the bud develops, and there 

 is no danger of overfeeding at any time. Close disbudding is essential 

 in growing chrysanthemums, and they should be gone over every three or 

 four days. Neglect in this always shows in the quality of the blooms. 



The following varieties have proven very satisfactory with us: Early 

 Yellow Golden Glow, planting three different lots about three weeks 

 apart, the first about the 15th of May. These will bloom in August and 

 early September, being followed about two weeks apart by the other 

 plantings. These are succeeded by Robt. HoUiday and Col. Appleton, 

 growing enough of these varieties to supply the demand until along in 

 November, when we have Golden Wedding, Yellow Eaton, and Golden 

 Chadwick. In white, October Frost, by taking the crown bud, comes 

 quite early and makes a very satisfactory flower; these are followed by 

 Polly Rose or White Pacific. E. Touset and Alice Byron are two good 

 mid-season varieties with us, followed by Minnie Wannamaker, T. Eaton, 

 and Mm. W. H. Chadwick. We also grow a large quantity of Yanoma 

 for Christmas, which, while not as good a flower as the other varieties 

 I have mentioned, yields as large returns as any variety on account of 

 being at its best at this time. In pink, our quantity varieties are limited 

 to Pacific Supreme, early midseason, followed by A. J. Balfour. We have 

 found the returns are much less on the pink varieties than on the yellow 

 and whites, while the demand for red is not large enough to warrant 

 growing them. 



Mr. Chairman: Are there any questions you want to ask about this 

 paper? 



DISCUSSION. 

 Mr. Henderson: Mr. President, I think the paper is very good. It 



