I2O Chrysanthemum Culture for America. 



About the end of the month the early sown seedlings will re- 

 quire potting from the seed boxes or pans using the two and a 

 half inch pots, and after potting keep near the light but 

 shade from the bright sun, until they are thoroughly established. 

 Keep the houses in which the established plants are growing 

 very cool, but give all the sunshine possible. Frost, of course, 

 must never be allowed to enter. In the southern states, from 

 this time on the plants will do best in cold frames, without 

 artificial heat, until the time of planting out. 



APRIL. 



Keep a close watch upon the cuttings all this month ; get 

 as many in as are required, pot up all that are rooted, and 

 keep moving into larger pots as the growth of the plants de- 

 mand it. Most of the plants rooted in February and earlier 

 will now be in six-inch pots. The stronger growing varieties 

 will require a little larger pots than the more delicate sorts. 

 The soil must now be richer than for previous potting, using 

 about three parts of well rotted loam of a sandy nature, one 

 part of well decayed manure, and a six inch pot-full each of 

 bone meal and finely-broken charcoal to a bushel of this com- 

 post. Abundance of air must be given this month in the 

 houses where chrysanthemums are grown. Where good cold 

 frames are at hand all plants will be better in them than in the 

 houses, syringing in the evenings after hot days. Attend care- 

 fully to stopping and training. The plants intended for spec- 

 imens must all be selected this month and their training be- 

 gun. Always have duplicate plants when growing for exhibi- 

 tion ; if you want to show twenty-five plants start fifty for 

 that purpose, and by the time the shows take place, you may 

 be able to select from the fifty, the twenty-five needed for ex- 

 hibition. If room and the conveniences are at hand it is even 

 better to start with one hundred. So many accidents and dis- 

 appointments occur that it is best to make liberal allowances 

 for them. Prepare beds and borders out of doors, where 



