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from the best varieties which have yet flowered in this country, without regard to 

 their respective ages, though all of them have been raised within the last three 

 years. 



We anticipate that these little pets will be applicable to a variety of decorative 

 purposes. For window plants, they are peculiarly appropriate ; and they are also 

 equally adapted for filling the flower-beds after the removal of their summer 

 occupants, or for cultivation in the mixed borders. 



"With regard to the details of their cultivation we would observe, that they are 

 increased by the same means as the common Chrysanthemums, viz. by division of 

 the stools early in tbe year ; by cuttings of the young shoots ; and also by layers at 

 almost any period of the summer. "When a large supply of plants is not required, 

 the suckers will generally be sufficient. 



Tor pot culture, a rich soil must be provided, composed of good loam and well- 

 rotted manure ; and during their growth, which may be accomplished out of doors 

 if protected from severe frosts, they will require to be once or twice re-potted. In 

 order to have compact bushy specimens, the points of the shoots should be pinched 

 off at intervals during the spring and early summer, but not after the end of June, 

 or the plants may fail to blossom. If the pots are fully exposed to the sun's influ- 

 ence during the warmer months of the year, they will require to be regularly 

 watered, and should be placed on a stratum of coal ashes, to prevent the ingress of 

 worms ; or a layer of soot may be placed at the bottom of the pot, which will answer 

 the same end. 



"When the plants are needed for bedding purposes, the divisions of the root may 

 be planted in a reserve bed of good soil, stopping and watering them when 

 requisite, and only transferred to the flower garden at the end of September, when 

 the annuals have ceased flowering, and the more tender greenhouse plants are 

 returned to their winter quarters. If they are dug up with a good ball of earth 

 about their roots, this removal will not in any way affect them, especially if they 

 are well watered and shaded for a day or two subsequently. Very nice dwarf 

 specimens for potting may be readily obtained by layering the extremities of the 

 shoots about the end of July. 



We have intimated that cuttings may be struck as readily as in the case of the 

 larger kinds. They should be taken as early in the spring as obtainable, struck 

 upon a moderate hot-bed, and afterwards either potted off, or transferred to the 

 open border. Cuttings taken later in the season do not, in general, produce flowers 

 until the following year, unless under very favourable circumstances, the plants 

 being of much slower growth than the varieties of C. sinense. 



The Chrysanthemums are, nominally, quite hardy; but every cultivator must have 

 observed, that by far the finest specimens are those which are grown in a warm 

 situation, such as the foot of a south wall ; and these dwarf varieties will, in case of 



