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the glass wiped every morning. In a short time they will 

 strike root ; then pot them in five-inch pots, and grow them 

 in the open air in a situation where they will not have all 

 the sun of mid-day. The soil in which they are potted should 

 be loam and rotted dung, with a little silver sand. When 

 the blooms are showing they may be changed into larger pots, 

 and removed into tlie house, where they will bloom in per- 

 fection. The plants, having nearly expended their growth 

 before the tops were taken off, the cuttings have not much 

 more growth to develope, and therefore bloom in a dwarf 

 state. There are other ways of growing this plant. The 

 young suckers, or shoots from the root, may be taken off in 

 November, placed in a cool frame till well rooted, and then 

 potted singly in lif^ht rich soil, and protected in a cold well- 

 aired frame until May, when they may be set out of doors in 

 an open place until the end of September. They must have 

 several good shifts, and the tops may be twice or thrice 

 pinched out, after two or three inches' growth, to produce 

 bushy plants. In this way large plants are formed, which 

 become very ornamental. In all cases the plants should have 

 weak liquid manure or clarified soot-water at every other 

 watering from the time the flower-buds show distinctly : no- 

 thing else is so effective in producing fine high-coloured 

 flowers. 



There are two distinct classes of Chrysanthemums now 

 cultivated — one tall-growing, with large flowers; the other 

 dwarf, compact, with numerous smaller flowers : both are 

 highly ornamental, the latter class, called Pompones, being 

 perhaps the most useful where only small greenhouses are 

 available for blooming them. These require stopping like 

 the others, and may be made to branch wonderfully by good 

 culture, and by spreading out the stems somewhat. Chry- 

 santhemums grow well against walls, and bloom magnificently 

 if the season proves favourable. They are also almost un- 

 affected by the smoke of cities and towns. 



PYROLIRION. Fire Lily. [Amaryllidacese.] Pretty 

 greenhouse bulbs, which should be potted in sandy loam, 

 and are the better for a little extra heat to start them into 

 growth. They are multiplied by offsets. P. aureum, flowers 

 golden colour. P. Jiavum also flowers yellow. 



