THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



AUGUST 1st, 1883. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE l.—On the Cultivation of the Chinese Chry- 

 santhemum. By Iris. 



I beg to offer a few remarks on Mr. Haworth's paper on the 

 Chinese Chrysanthemum, inserted in your Number for May, 

 more particularly on his improved method of cultivation. Mr. 

 Hawoktu docs not ajjprove of the method usually adopted, but 

 prefers that the i)lants should be annually parted, and transplanted 

 at the foot of a south or west aspected wall. Now with respect to 

 wall training, I have for many years practised it with very great 

 success, and can testify, that where so valuable a commodity as a 

 south or west itspected wall can be spared, this lovely plant will 

 repay every care and answer every expectation ; but to hope for 

 entire success, particularly with many kinds which bloom late, it 

 18 necessary to vary the method reeommendcd by him of planting 

 the sucker at once against a wall. No plant is more apt "to quail 

 hef(,re the sun " than this, and this flagging very much delays the 

 growth of llie young sucker ; it is long niuking roof, and frerpienlly, 

 without care, dies. The method J have aao])ted with suckers 

 with rom])Ietc success, not losing one out of a hundred, is to lake 

 them from the ol.l j.knts early in April ; pot them in (iOs, one in 

 each pot; put ihcm in a cold frame exposed well to the sun, but 



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