26 THE CULTURE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



CHAPTER III. 



STOPPING CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



By stopping, I must be understood to mean pinching out 

 about half an inch of the soft growth from the point or 



CROYVN 



CROWN 



BREAK 



Plant Stopped for Second Crown, 

 showing the breaks. 



apex of a shoot. The sole object of stopping exhibition 

 varieties is to secure an earlier break than the plant would 



