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for Standard Chrysanthemums. Large plants of this 
kind are grown in comparatively small pots by occasion- 
ally cutting them back and removing the soil from the 
roots, at the same time taking off the large and most 
luxuriant leaves, and potting again in small pots with 
fresh soil. This gives them new vigor and they start and 
grow beautifully soon after having been thus treated. 
Any time your large pot grown Geraniums do not show 
signs of active growth and the leaves become yellow, just 
shake every particle of soil from the roots, cut back the 
top some, and remove most of the leaves. Cut the roots 
back a little also, and put them in a pot with nice fresh 
soil, and with the usual care it will surprise you. Ger- 
aniums may be taken up in the Fall and Wintered in 
the cellar or any place where they will have some light 
and frost cannot reach them. In thiscase they will need 
no water through the Winter, as dampness is far more 
fatal to them than a dry atmosphere, and all signs of 
decaying leaves and stems must be removed as quick as 
it appears. In removing the decaying leaves always pull 
them downwards, as then you entirely remove it, and it 
comes off with much more ease and does not disturb the 
plantasif pulled upwards. Where growing close together 
in a pit or greenhouse in Winter, it is always a good plan 
to remove most of the large leaves so as to allow the air 
to more freely circulate among them, and not to give 
them a drawn and spindling appearance which they 
otherwise would have. The young shoots propagate best 
cut off about three or four inches from the end. With 
most varieties cutting them off just below the third joint 
from the end makes the most desirable sized cutting; in 
weaker growing and close jointed sorts, five or six joints 
may be left. The leaves had all better be cut off, as the 
cutting could not sustain them, and they would even- 
