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commence a systematic training of gardeners, florists and prac- 

 tical foresters. Let this be thoroughly agitated. 



A Chrysanthemum nine feet in diameter is said to have re- 

 cently taken the prize at the flower-show in Chicago. In Photo 

 156 there is a partial view of one eleven feet in diameter ! This 

 was grown by Mr. David McFarlane (seen also in Photo 157), 

 at Mr. Emil Berholzheimer's, Tarrytown, N. Y. The plant was 

 too large to be taken out of the greenhouse, so that it was not 



Photo 156 

 Eleven Feet in Diameter. 



exhibited at the flower-show. Mr. McFarlane, also, is a Scotch- 

 man, and in him I have a hearty co-worker for the protection of 

 roots. He fully understands the destruction befalling millions 

 of plants, annually, through lack of knowledge on this vital 

 point. The reason he had such fine success with the specimen in 

 Photo 156 was that, after the final "shift" into the pot in which 

 it was to be "flowered," he plunged the flower pot into the midst 

 of a tub of sand. Tf florists who have to battle with so much 

 "mildew" on the leaves of their "Mums" would "plunge" their 



