352 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



999. The chrysanthemum, like other plants producing terminal flowers, hag 

 a tendency to send up one leading stem, which, if not interfered with, would 

 produce a bunch of flowers at the top. This tendency is counteracted by stopping 

 the terminal shoot, which produces a compact shrubby growth, and a great 

 many more flowers. As a rule for the large-flowering kinds, stopping should cease 

 in July ; while with pompones it may be extended to August, The general 

 law is, that letting the plants run up is favourable to fine flowers, and stopping, 

 to a more plentiful supply. It is the practice of some growers to stop the 

 plants at every third eye until the middle of August, watering freely with 

 manure-water three or four times a week, and sprinkhng the plants overhead 

 with water every morning. Early in September the best plants are selected, 

 and re-potted into 12-sized pots, using the compost as before, and giving 

 ample drainage, and placing them under a south wall ; the smaller plants being 

 transplanted at the same time into 24-sized pots, and placed under an east 

 wall. By the middle of October the earlier plants will be showing flower, and 

 should be placed in a cold gi-een house, or cold-pit, where they can receive 

 plenty of air, leaving those intended for late flowering under the east wall 

 as long as the weather will permit. By the middle of November all should be 

 housed, or at least provided with shelter, and a good supply of bloom for the 

 next two months should be the result. 



1000. Pompones, or Lilliputian Chrysanthemums, form a verj- valuable addition 



to this tribe of flowers. Mr. Broome says of them, " The introduction of this 



little favourite has tended in no small degree to resuscitate the cultivation of 



the chrysanthemum, which of late years has much fallen oft". Beautiful, 



though small, it will bear any amount of looking into, yet it seems more 



especially designed to set off and act by way of contrast to its larger rivals, 



whether it be in the parterre or in the vases of the drawing-room. " There is 



no diflerence in the method of cultivating these small varieties, so that our 



observations apply to both kinds. With regard to the character of the flowers 



of the chrysanthemum, three kinds are enumerated. The reflexed petals 



mark the older and less-esteemed varieties, the petals turning back towards 



the calyx. The incurved petals turn inward, so as to pive rather a cup-like 



appearance to the flower. The anemone-flowered chr3'santhemums have a centre 



of short compact petals, arranged in a globose form, around which the larger 



petals radiate. They are very beautiful, but it is somewhat difficult to get 



them to bloom perfectly'. The following is a list of really good sorts: — 



Large Varieties. — Louisa lucidum ; Ma- 

 dame L^o ; Vesta, — white : Aimce Ter- 

 riere; Eugenie; Hermione ; King, — 

 blush and pale pink : Admirable ; Baron 

 Scalebert ; Phidias ; Leon Leguay, — 

 roseandlilac: Grand Napoleon; Progn^; 

 Kantonette, — rose and carmine : Change- 

 able,— yellow : Cloth of Gold ; Gold 

 Queen of England ; Persanne,— yellow : 

 Agustie Mie ; Madame Poggi ; Pluton ; 

 Lothario, — red and crimson : Alcibiade; 

 Cassy; Poudred'Orj Kuth; Zephyr,— 

 bronze and orange. 



Large Anemone-flotcered. — Eclipse; Eeine 

 Marguerite, — yellow : Fleur de Marie \ 

 Madame Sentir; Nancy de Sermet,— 

 white: George's Land, — red, with yel- 

 low centre: Louis, — lilac: Marguerite 

 d'Anjou, — nankeen. 



Fompones. — Berrol ; Ida ; Solfaterre, — 

 yellow : Bijou de I'Horticulture ; Cedo 

 Nulli ; Nelly, — white : Duke de Eouen ; 

 La Promise ; President Decaisne, — 

 rose: Attila; Marceau; Surprise; Zebra, 

 — pink and lilac : Mustapha ; Pandore ; 

 Samte Thais,— bronze and orange. 



