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up, the old soil sliould be shaken from the roots and the plants placed 

 in smaller pots, potting on afterwards as they require it. After they 

 are fairly started they can either be grown indoors or outside, with the 

 stock of Zonals for winter, until housing time. A little heat in autumn 

 soon brings them into flower, and they continue to do so all winter. For 

 button-hole bouquets or cutting, no plants are more serviceable. 



Chrysanthemums will be gay until Christmas, if properly treated 

 after the buds are formed, and late kinds selected and left outside 

 longer than the general stock. The beauty of Souvenir de Malanche 

 should be pressed upon the minds of all growers of these plants. For 

 flowering from the end of October and through November, no other 

 variety I am acquainted with can surpass it. Its flowers — which are 

 of the purest white when fully expanded — and the freedom with which 

 they are produced, recommend for it a foremost place. It will stand 

 gentle forcing ; but if housed as soon as the buds are formed, the plants 

 will be in bloom about the middle of October. Its habit is dwarf, and 

 it retains its foliage much better than any other kind that I know. 

 When once grown, the white Cedo nulli would quickly be discarded. 

 The flowers are much after the style of Elaine, and resemble in minia- 

 ture that beautiful w^hite variety. Wm. Bardney. 



MUSHROOM- CULTURE. 



Throughout the winter months few garden productions, in the way of 

 eatables which pass through the kitchen, are more acceptable or highly 

 valued than Mushrooms. When outside vegetables are scarce, as they 

 have been in many instances during the last two or three winters, a 

 good supply of Mushrooms will be found most useful, as they can be 

 used in a variety of ways at the dinner-table, and form substitutes for 

 many other things ; and many are anxious to have them frequently for 

 breakfast too. Altogether they must be regarded as the most useful 

 of our crops at this season of the year ; and fortunate are they who 

 have the means of producing abundance of them. Although we have 

 heard some assert that they could grow Mushrooms in an old hat, or 

 shoe, or anywhere, I hardly agree w^ith this, and think that reasonable 

 means for their culture must be provided. Material for making beds 

 is of less importance than having a suitable house for growing them 

 in. In summer time, or during the warmest part of the year, they 

 may be grown out of doors or in a cool shed, or any place of the kind ; 

 but now, and from November until April, artificial heat is wanted in 

 their quarters. To secure this, many have thoroughly-heated struc- 

 tures ; but all are not so well ojff : the Mushrooms would be more certain 

 if they were. Here our Mushroom-house is heated with a flue, which 

 is capable of maintaining a high enough temperature so long as the out- 

 side elements are favourable ; but during severe weather the tempera- 



