220 ON SAVING CHRYSANTHEMUM SEEDS. 



No. 7. 



No. 7. — Upon AB describe half an oval as in No. 6. Divide 

 A B in C, and again divide A C and C B in D and E, and from 

 these centres describe the half circles AFC and C G B. 



ARTICLE II. 

 ON SAVING SEED FROM CHRYSANTHEMUMS*. 



BY MR. R. FREESTONE, WATL1NGTON, NEAR DOWNHAM, NORFOLK. 



When the flowers are fully expanded, take a fine camel hair 

 pencil, and fill it well with pollen from any of the semi-double 

 flowers, apply this to the stigma of the two outside rows of petals. 

 When the flowers begin to decay, cut them off as close as you 

 can without injuring the seed-vessels. Place the plants in the 

 warmest and driest situation, a dry stove is the best ; watch them 

 daily to see that nomouldiness contracts upon the flower-stems or 

 seed vessels, if any appear, let it be wiped ofl*. 



The seed will be ripe in about six weeks from the time of im- 

 pregnation, when so, cut and hang it in the driest room you 

 have. 



Early in February let the seed be cleaned from the husk, and 

 sown in light soil, covering it a quarter of an inch with finely 

 sifted compost; place the pot in a cucumber or pine-pit worked 

 with dung, and in about a month from the time of sowing, the 

 plants may be expected up; as soon as they are strong enough, 

 pot them off into small sixties', re-pot them as the pots become 

 full of roots, until you get them into pots of nine inches in depth 



* In this country it is necessary to force tVm into bloom as early as po»- 

 *ible. 



