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and C. speciosa; are all handsome, and flower from 

 May to September; corolla large, ringent ; ventricose 

 flowers in spikes or panicles. 



Chrysanthemums. There are few of this genus of 

 any consequence as herbaceous plants, except the 

 varieties of C. sinense, of which there, are about fifty, 

 all desirable ; but in small gardens, where there is a 

 deficiency in room, the following are select in colour 

 and quality : Tubulosum album, quilled white ; superbum, 

 superb white; discolor, large lilac; fulvum, Spanish 

 brown ; atropurpurcum, early crimson ; involutum, curled 

 lilac; fasciculdtum, superb cluster yellow; serotinum, 

 late pale purple; papyraceum, paper white; Waralah, 

 yellow Waratah ; versicolor, two-coloured red ; stellatum, 

 starry purple; verecundum, early blus-h; and mutabile, 

 changeable pale buff. To grow these in perfection, 

 they require rich light soil j and about the end of this 

 month the roots should be lifted, divided, and planted 

 into fresh soil, either by giving them a new situation, 

 or changing the earth they were in. Two or three 

 stems together are quite sufficient. The flowers, by 

 the above treatment, will be much larger, more double, 

 and finer in colour; where they are wanted to grow 

 low and bushy, top them in June, but not later than 

 the first of July. Where the soil is rich, and the plant 

 having only one stem, by topping it, makes a beautiful 

 bush. They are in flower from the first of October 

 until severe frost; thus beautifying our gardens at a 

 season when they would be destitute of one single 

 attraction. If the season is dry, to water them with 



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