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should be put on again, and pot-trees taken under cover, or laid on 

 their sides, and a moderate thickness of litter thrown over them. 

 It will, perhaps, be as well to add, that when in the open air the 

 pots must be protected with long litter or leaves to prevent the frost 

 splitting them. 



If it appears late in the season to offer these suggestions, it must 

 be remembered that the roots of orchard-house trees do not gene- 

 rally become dry until January, and then it is that severe frost may 

 be expected. Hence, perhaps, this paper is strictly seasonable, and 

 in any case it is better to speak late than not speak at all. 



JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



BY ROBERT OUBEIDGE, 



Church Walk Nursery, Stoke Newington, N. 



HE Japaness Chrysanthemums, considered as " florists' " 

 flowers, are decidedly inferior to the incurved varieties, 

 which have descended from the species originally in- 

 troduced from China, hence they do not enjoy the 

 popularity to which they are so justly entitled. For 

 exhibition purposes they are well-nigh useless, because when grown 

 into large, well-trained specimens, they have not such a finished 

 appearance as those belonging to the other classes, and can hardly 

 be tolerated ; but for conservatory decoration, when grown in a 

 natural manner, they are of the utmost value. The flowers of most 

 of the varieties are of the richest and moit distinct colours, and all 

 are more or less novel and fantastic in form. Grown in the manner 

 as here suggested, the flowers have a peculiarly light and elegant 

 appearance, which is entirely wanting in all the others ; and as many 

 of them do not flower until late in the year, the chrysanthemum 

 season can, with care, be prolonged very nearly until Christmas. 

 They should not, however, be grown exclusively, or in greater num- 

 bers than the varieties belonging to the other sections, for to pro- 

 duce the best effect a fair number of each section must be grown. 



The few suggestions respecting their cultivation will apply to 

 the large-flowering varieties generally, and I would strongly advise 

 my readers to grow all the plants intended for conservatory decora- 

 tion with as little stopping and as few stakes and ties as possible. 

 Huge, closely-trained specimens look very well upon the exhibition 

 stage, and it would be waste of time to say anything against them ; 

 but they are entirely out of place in the conservatory, for by the 

 most skilful hand they cannot be arranged to produce[such a pleasing 

 effect as a group of untrained plants with about half-a-dozen flowers 

 upon each. 



"Where the conservatory is lofty, or where the plants can be 

 placed on the floor, they should be grown without stopping at all, as 

 the flowers will be much larger and of better quality than those 



