CHRYSANTHEMUM TIME 



evenings over Rose, fruit, tree, shrub, and bulb catalogues Nov. 

 — when we make out orders and alter them, and send 

 them off and cancel them, and recollect a week after we 

 posted them (a week in which we have got very angry 

 with the florist because he has not acknowledged them) 

 that we forgot to put our name and address on ; a month 

 when we worry all our friends, and the nurserymen, and 

 the editors of gardening papers, and the secretaries of 

 horticultural societies, for opinions about varieties. It 

 is the month when we plan shrubberies, and Rose 

 gardens, and tennis lawns, and all kinds of fresh 

 features. Our gardening enthusiasm of the past year 

 is still strong upon us, and we know that now or never ' 

 is the time to act. 



Truly in these days, when all people are gardeners, 

 November has become a changed month. Once the 

 month which people dreaded most as the sum of all that 

 was gloomy, dispiriting, and oppressive, it has become a 

 month that is looked forward to eagerly. 



NOVEMBER— First and Second Weeks Nov. 



Flowers ~ ^ 



Arum Lilies. — If beautiful white spathes are wanted 

 at Christmas, the plants ought to have a minimum 

 temperature of 55°, and abundance of water. They will 

 live in a low temperature, and retain their freshness 

 (although frost will tarnish them), but they will not 

 bloom. 



Biennials and Perennials. — All the biennials and 

 perennials which were raised from seed in early summer 

 may be planted in beds and borders in November. 

 Dahlias will now be over, probably, and make room for 

 fresh plants. 



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