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and it is still growing. What length these shoots will attain, before 

 the tree goes to rest, remains to be seen. 



I understand Mr. Harrison intends sending out his Napoleon 

 Stock to the trade next year, and, therefore, in due time, roses can 

 be obtained at other nurseries budded upon it. 



SQUAT CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



|HE late John Salter, of Hammersmith, invented a mode 

 of training the chrysanthemum, which he desired the 

 writer of this note to find a name for, and it was 

 accordingly designated the " squat " system. The 

 object ot this training is to dwarf the tall-growing sorts 

 so as to form round heads dense with leaves and flowers, not only- 

 covering the top of the pot, but the sides also, so that when the 

 plant is in flower, the pot is literally buried in the beautiful growth 

 it has produced. 



To train in this way is a very easy matter, but a thoroughly 

 vigorous growth must be promoted by the liberal use of manure- 

 water. The plant being in the blooming pot (8, 10, or 11 inch), is 



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SrECIMEN SQUAT CIUIYSANTHEMUM. 



plunged in the open ground in the full sun, and liberally fed. As 

 soon as the shoots are long enough, they are brought over the edge 

 of the pot, and pegged down quite close to it all round. They soon 



