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plant required must regulate the size of pot into wliicli they are shifted. 

 Place them in an intermediate temperature. A slight bottom-heat will 

 assist them to start more freely. When the pots are well filled with 

 roots, give them frequent waterings with weak liquid manure. This 

 will materially assist the size and character of the flowers and duration 

 of bloom. They are very subject to green-fly at all times, and fumiga- 

 tion with tobacco-paper must be resorted to. Red-spider also attacks 

 them in dry hot summers, but a few washings with the syringe will 

 rid them of this pest. It has also been planted out in summer, and 

 has succeeded perfectly. To all those who have much to do in the 

 way of decoration with pot-plants we would strongly recommend it. 



Down South. 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



'No apology is necessary for a reference to the Chrysanthemum at this 

 season of the year. It is ^jxti!?* excellence the popular flower of the 

 autumn and winter months out of doors, if happily unmolested by 

 frosts, most cheerful and acceptable in our gardens ; while indoors, 

 who could do justice to such a magnificent display as that made by 

 that master of Chrysanthemum culture, Mr John Salter of the Ver- 

 sailles Nursery, Hammersmith, London 1 In his v/inter-garden is to 

 be seen in the month of November, at their greatest perfection of 

 beauty, a grand exhibition of varieties of this valuable winter plant. 

 By the appropriate use of a few simple elements — some pieces of rock, 

 mosses, variegated and ornamental, and other plants, &c., and a large 

 quantity of these Chrysanthemums — are thus displayed forms which 

 enchant the eye and gladden the heart ; pleasant aspects of beauty in 

 nature mingling together that have a peculiar gratification when 

 nipping winds and biting frosts are about their appointed tasks, in 

 their own fashion and appointed way working destruction and death, 

 but which are destined to be, ere long, the precursor of the birth of 

 new and beautiful forms in the pleasant spring-time. 



My object is to give notes on some of the best forms of the Chry- 

 santhemum as seen here, both large-flowering and pompone, as they are 

 termed, and to attempt as far as possible some general arrangement of 

 colours, though in regard to some flowers this were almost impossible, 

 so imperceptibly does one shade of colour seem to glide into and blend 

 with another. One thing is, however, quite certain, that within the 

 past few years a wonderful advance has been made towards the attain- 

 ment of brightness and distinctness of colour in the flowers, and with 



