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Mr. Montgomery recommends the following twenty-four varie- 

 ties for the market : 



Arthur H. Fewkes, Maud Dean, 



Col. W. B. Smith, Mrs. Craig Lippincott, 



Cullingfordii, Mrs. E. G. Hill, 



Ermenilda, Mrs. Jerome Jones, 



Eugene Dailledouze, Mrs. Phipps, 



Golden Wedding, Mrs. R. Bergmann, 



H. L. Sunderbruch, Mutual Friend, 



Inter-ocean, Niveus, 



Ivory, President Smith, 



John Shrimpton, Queen, 



Lady Play fair, Viviand Morel, 



Major Bonnaffon, W. H. Lincoln. 



William Nicholson's Pleasant Hill Conservatories. 



Framingham, November 12, 1894. 



John G. Barker, Jamaica Plain . 



Deal' Sir: — In reply to your letter of inquiry in regard to my 

 mode of growing Chrysanthemums, I will say that the house in 

 which I grow them is fifteen feet by one hundred feet. They are 

 all grown on benches in five inches of lonm. The loam I prepare 

 in the fall before, by plowing grass land five inches deep, and 

 carting the sods to a pile, and mixing five loads of sods with one 

 load of good horse manure ; also putting on each layer ten quarts 

 of bone flour. 



The house is run to Tomatoes till July 15 to 20, when we empty 

 out all the old loam, put in the new soil, and plant the Chrysan- 

 themums that were struck the last of May and the first of Juile, 

 and had been grown in two and one-half inch pots, till planted on 

 the benches. They are planted six inches apart each way, and 

 when they begin to show bud I feed them with cow manure water, 

 and put on a light mulching of old manure. As soon as the buds 

 begin to show color we stop the manure water and finish with a 

 little sulphate of ammonia. We grow them quite cool in the fall, 

 leaving ventilators open all night all the time, with a little fire heat 

 to keep away mildew. This house has about thirty-five hundred 

 plants in it, all grown with a single stem and one flower to a stem 



