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cloudy and favorable. Plants intended for potting should 
be cut around from eight to ten inches from the stem 
with a sharp spade or knife, running the implement into 
the ground to a depth of about fourteen inches allaround 
the plant; this cuts off all the rambling roots and induces 
the ones inside the circle to grow more dense and make 
a complete mass of roots, and if the above cutting is 
attended to about once a week for two or three weeks 
before potting, when the time comes to pot your plants 
will lift up with a nice ball of roots and suffer little or no 
check in the operation. After potting have a tub of 
water at hand and stand them in it for about twenty 
minutes, with the water above the top of the pot. After 
this remove to the shade and keep them there a few 
‘days, gradually inuring them to thesun. If they show 
a tendency to wilt, keep in shade a few days longer, and 
keep the foliage moist by frequent sprinklings. 
STANDARD CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Standard Chrysanthemumisis the trade name for plants 
grown on a single stem to about the height of thirty or 
thirty-six inches, with a nice round head of bloom on 
top. To grow them in this way needs more attention 
and skill than in any of the other ways. A proper selec- 
tion of varieties best adapted for this purpose is of all 
importance, which we give elsewhere. The directions 
before given apply to these in same manner, only instead 
of nipping the top off at eighteen inches, the desired 
height of thirty or thirty-six inches, as the case may be 
must be attained before the top is pinched off. To attain 
this height of the single stem, all side shoots must be 
carefully watched and rubbed off as quick as they appear, 
also any shoots that show a tendency to start from the 
roots, allowing only the one straight stem to grow, which 
