DAISY CIIRYSAUTHEMUMS. 



from fivo or six plants. The third year, (1852,) we added to our collection five or six 

 of the Daisy or Pompone variety. The plants were plotted early in the season, and 

 many of them repotted occasionally. From necessity they were placed with other 

 plants in the shade of a large building, where they had the sun for a very short time 

 in the morning, and for one or two hours in the evening. The plants seemed to grow 

 finely, not losing their leaves, but retaining them to the rim of the pot, so large and 

 green, they seemed to be very perfect as well as beautiful. But when the time came 

 to look for flower buds there were but few to be seen. Still we hoped on until the 

 23d of November, when, from fifteen or twenty plants we had four tee7i flowers in all, 

 on fve plants — one of them was a Daisy Chrysanthemum, with three flowers. There 

 was after all quite a large number of buds, but they all, with those few exceptions, 

 came to nothing more. 



The fourth year, (1853,) it was determined to keep the plants out of the shade. 

 Though other plants did finely, it was very evident it was no place for the Chrysan- 

 themum. As our grounds were not inclosed sooner, we were unable to get them out 

 until the 23d of 'May. They were taken from the house and planted in a warm, sunny 

 exposure. Some shoots that had become quite long were layered, and soon strik- 

 ing made fine bushy plants. Other shoots were cut in pieces of about three inches, 

 and the cuttings w^ere planted in the open ground, (where they soon strike without 

 the protection of a glass or shade, if the ground is kept moist). They were not pot- 

 ted until July, August and September, in the pots in which they were to bloom, with 

 no drainage at all in the pots ; kept in the shade for a day or two; they were again 

 removed to a warm sunny spot, and the pots were placed on boards which rested on 

 the ground. In September, October, and November, they were occasionally watered 

 with a weak solution of sulphate of ammonia, (half an ounce in a gallon of water). 

 The latter part of September, from fear of frost, they were removed to the house, and 

 began to bloom about the 20th of October. Some might have been bloomed sooner, 

 had they been placed in a warm room. But in November and December some of 

 them were a mass of bloom, and they generally retained their foliage to the rim of the 

 pot. One plant, ^^Autumna,^^ about twelve or thirteen inches high, " according to 

 measure," had ninety-five blossoms, besides which there were buds and imperfect flow- 

 ers. The large varieties, as Temiile of Solomon, Jenny L'lnd, Fleur de Marie, La Heine 

 d' Or, (fee, bloomed finely, also. 



A few plants were left out for trial, and in a warm, dry place under the windows. 

 La Gitana, Poulidetto, and Sacramento, bloomed about the middle of November. 

 The climate is much colder than that of Rochester. 



So much of " experience-" Now permit me to give a little advice. If you would 

 like to bloom them in the open ground, put them in a dry, warm border, — under your 

 south windows would be a good place, if there are no trees in the way to hide them 

 from the sun. Some of them bloomed earlier than others ; for instance, Sacramento, 

 Autumna, La Gitana, Solfatare, Foulidetto, (fee, all pretty, and good bloomers, with- 



doors or out. 



you would like to bloom them in your parlor or greenhouse, in May take strong 



