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each shoot ; bat where two are left, it is better to take 

 out the second bud, and leave the third, to prevent confu- 

 sion. As soon as the buds show color, the plants are 

 tlien removed to the f^reen-house or conservatory, giving 

 plenty of air, and substituting water for liquid manure. 

 We ought to have mentioned that, where a profusion of 

 bloom is required, two or three plants may be inserted in 

 the pots where only one is usually grown. This will af- 

 ford an opportunity of cutting away the ^veakest shoots, 

 and reserving the strongest only," 



C. coronarium. — The varieties of this annual species 

 are hardy garden plants, of some beauty in their full dou- 

 ble varieties of white and yellow ; two or more feet high ; 

 in bloom most of the season. Easily raised from seed. ■ 

 The single sorts should be pulled up as soon as the blos- 

 soms appear. Extra fine double varieties can be raised 

 from cuttings, and kept through the winter in the green- 

 house or setting-room. 



Of the Dwarf Yellow variety, Yilmorin, of Paris, says : — 



" This new variety has been obtained in our own grounds; 

 it is of a low habit, forming a thick, branchy brush, about 

 15 inches high on 20 to 24 inches in diameter, and pro- 

 duces on this reduced space about as many flowers as the 

 old variety on its much larger plants. As a bedding and 

 border-plant this new Chrysanthemum will soon be a fa- 

 vorite and reconquer the place which the tall variety seems 

 to have been obliged to give up to other plants, more in 

 consequence of its ancientness than for the superiority of 

 the merits of its younger comj^etitors." 



C. carmatlim, — Tri-colored Chrysanthemum. — Is a 

 hardy annual from Barbary ; one and one-half foot high ; 

 in flower all the season. Disk of the flower purplish- 

 brown, inner circle of the rays yellow, margined with 

 white, very pretty. Some of the imj^roved varieties of 

 this flower are C. venustum and JBurridgeanum. 



