342 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
filled with sandy peat. The pots to be shut up in a close moist 
heat, the best place being a cucumber frame or melon pit. Imme- 
diately they are nicely rooted, shift into three-inch pots, and in a 
week or ten days nip out the point of each plant, to encourage the 
production of side-shoots. In a very short time they will commence 
to break freely, and as soon as the new shoots are an inch or so 
long they must be removed to a warm corner of the greenhouse. If 
allowed to become pot-bound at this stage, they will receive a severe 
check, therefore examine them occasionally, and when the pots are 
well filled with roots, shift into six-inch pots, and remove to a cold 
frame. About the middle of July remove to a bed of coal ashes 
out-of-doors, and as soon as they are well rooted supply with weak 
liquid manure, until they are taken to the greenhouse about the 
middle of September. 
CuRYSANTHEMUMS are so easily grown that they should form the 
chief furniture of the conservatory in November. To have the most 
sumptuous display possible, is not a difficult task even for the 
amateur with but limited means, so far as plant-growing is con- 
cerned. First of all, some of the exhibitions should be visited 
during the ensuing season, and notes made of any of the varieties 
represented by plants that are especially attractive ; and, as a matter 
of course, the most distinct, richly-coloured, and compact-growing 
varieties should be selected. Those who have no opportunity for 
acting upon this advice, may be referred to the selections which 
usually appear in the Fioran Worup after the exhibitions are over. 
In March, or April, procure a stock of plants nicely rooted and in 
three-inch pots. Those who have a few old plants from which to 
obtain a supply of cuttings, may propagate a stock in March with 
but little difficulty, as the tops of the young shoots will then strike 
very freely, with or without bottom-heat. They may, indeed, be 
struck in a cold frame. The usual routine of repotting at intervals 
must be followed; and all that I sball say upon this point is to 
recommend the repotting to be done before the plants become much 
pot-bound, and to employ for the last shift eight-inch pots for the 
pompone varieties, and ten-inch pots for the large-flowered kinds; 
to use a compost consisting of sound turfy loam, to which a mode- 
rate quantity of well-decayed manure has been added, and to press 
the soil firm. They require stopping about three times, which must 
be done while the shoots are quite soft, and the last stopping to be 
not later than the middle of June for the large-flowered varieties, 
and not later than the middle of July for the pompones. The pots 
must be stood upon a hard surface, and be liberally supplied with 
water. As trained plants are of but little use for the conservatory, 
the training should consist simply in putting a few stakes to them a 
short time after the last stopping, to afford support to the shoots as 
soon as they require it. The pompones are the most useful for the 
amateur. 
Cyctamens bloom freely late in the autumn, when strong corms 
are selected and repotted early in July. After the repotting, they 
must be encouraged to start, by being placed in a frame where they 
can be kept rather closer ; the soil must be maintained in a mode- 
