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I think it would be a difficult matter to beat them, with the assistance 

 of the Practical Gardener to boot. 



Mr. Editor I have placed the above remarks in your hands for inser- 

 tion in your Cabinet, if you think them worthy a place in that publica- 

 tion, and rest assured should opportunity occur, I should feel proud 

 in forwarding any communication that would assist the amateur or 

 others in the culture of flowers generally. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON THE CULTURE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM INDlCUM. 



BY S. R. P. GREENWICH. 



I AM so much a debtor to your Floricultural Cabinet for the pleasure 

 and instruction I have derived from its pages that I am anxious to 

 offer any contribution under the hope that i may assist in affording to 

 others a reciprocal pleasure. 



There are few late flowering plants, that surpass in beauty the 

 Chrysanthemum Indicum, its varied, and increasing colours, are daily 

 adding fresh splendour to the floral world, and whether it be in the 

 conservatory, the sitting room, or the flower garden, I know not a 

 more desirable autumnal plant. Much has appeared already on the 

 cultivation of this pretty flower; but as [ last year produced a me- 

 thod of treatiug it as a dwarf pot plant, that notwithstanding the 

 disadvantages of the late ungenial season, more than answered my an- 

 ticipations, I am induced to submit my mode of culture. • 



Early in the spring I took from the old plants rooted young shoots 

 planted then singly, in number sixty, and promoted their growth and 

 strength as rapidly as possible, by placing them in a cold frame, and 

 supplying them occasionally with liquid manure. When the pots were 

 full of roots they were shifted into 48 s ., and placed in an open 

 situation, and watered as before ; by the latter end of June the tall 

 growing sorts, had nearly reached three feet high, and the more 

 dwarf in proportion ; they were then turned out of the pots, and suf- 

 fered to get a little flaccid, the mould was partly shook from them, and 

 their roots slightly reduced. They were next potted in 32'. as follows, 

 some pieces of broken pots, as usual, and about two inches of compost 

 being put into the pot, the plants, with the aid of a second person to 

 fill up the mould, was coiled round the inside of the pot ; the top of 



