DAISY CHEYSANTHEMUllS. 



The Andromeda Jlorihunda does very well with me, and has quite a pretty white 

 flower. 



The difterent Mahonias are too well known now to need further commendation. 



Among the things I have imported this spring, with a view of acclimating, are 

 Garrya elliptica, Skimmia Japonica, Stauntonia latifolia, Cedrus Deodara viridis, 

 Cryptoraeria viridis^ Cryptomeria nana, Berberris Darwiiiii, Fitzroya Patar/onica, 

 and Saxe Gothcea consjncua. My success with these I may perhaps have the pleasure 

 to communicate to you on some other occasion. 



[ This paper of Mr. Sargent's presents the results of the most extensive and care- 

 fully conducted experiment that has been made, to our knowledge, in America, in the 

 cultivation of rare or recently introduced evergreen trees. With untiring zeal, and 

 regardless of cost, he has for many years been collecting every new evergreen tree 

 that has been announced as in any degree likely to endure this climate ; and here we 

 have a full account of his failures and success so far. To gentlemen improving their 

 grounds or forming arboretums, to nurserymen, and in short to all who feel interested 

 in arboriculture, the information is invaluable. The list we have here of those which 

 have proved perfectly hardy, embracing as it does the greater number of the noble 

 Pines and Firs of northwest America and the Himalaya, shows what ample resources 

 we are to have in forming plantations both for utility and ornament. — Ed.] 



THE DAISY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



BY W. 



Who has ever seen the beautiful Daisy Chrysanthemum, without admiring it, and 

 desiring to add to his own callection a few plants so gemmed with bud and blossom 

 in October, November, and December ? We have few plants that bloom so well as 

 the Chrysanthemum, and that can be so neglected for half of the year and suffer so 

 little. The flowers appearing, too, just at the time when most needed to relieve the 

 dreariness of those months so full of sad remains, of falling leaves and fading flowers. 



Yet it requires some little experience to cultivate this beautiful plant, with entire 

 success. In one book you will be told to " pinch out the tops to make them break," 

 and in another to avoid the same thing from fear of preventing their blooming. Some 

 recommend the " one shift system," and others to change them often from small pots 

 to larger, as they increase in growth. It may be that in each of these different ways 

 they have been cultivated so as to display much beauty, because they have been cul- 

 tivated with care and attention. But I have a little " experience'^ to give, and hope 

 that others, as well as myself, may derive some benefit from it. 



Four years ago I began to cultivate the Chrysanthemum — the large or Indian va- 

 The first year, from eight or ten plants we had one beautiful flower. The sec- 

 year we were quite well pleased with our success, having, perhaps, about twenty. 



