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hedge. After the hedge has once got up to the size or height required, the 

 labor of keeping it in repair is very small ; an annual clipping or two being 

 all that is needed, — less expense yearly, taking a term of years, than will be 

 required to support a wooden fence. If these things are true, let us plant 

 hedges. J. F. C. Hyde. 



Newton Centre, Mass. 



POMPON CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Our earliest recollections recall the chrysanthemum as the last flower 

 of autumn ; and we well remember the large ragged, white, yellow, and 

 dingy-red flowers so common even now in old gardens. 



In the onward progress of floriculture, the chrysanthemum has not been 

 left behind ; and the last ten years have witnessed great improvement in 

 both the form and color of the flower. The ragged, shapeless blossoms 

 have become symmetrical ; and the colors now vie in brilliancy with those 

 of any flower. 



Not many years ago, Mr. Fortune brought from China a miniature chrys- 

 anthemum, commonly called the "Chusan Daisy." 



The introduction of this plant was an epoch in chrysanthemum-culture; 

 for from it, by hybridization, have sprung all the so-called hybrid pompons. 

 These dwarf or rather small varieties far excel the larger kinds in profusion 

 of flower, perfection of form, and variety of color. 



For autumn blooming, we have nothing which can fill their place j and 

 we depend upon them for the decoration of the greenhouse during the 

 later months of the year. 



Many of the varieties thrive in the garden ; and, in mild autumns, are 

 very conspicuous at a season when other flowers are gone. 



They can be flowered perfectly in a cold pit ; the process being simply 

 to grow them out of doors in the summer, and, upon the approach of 

 severe weather, to remove them to the pit, where they will bloom freely 

 until early winter without fire-heat, as they can bear much frost without 

 injury. 



