Round the Year in the Garden 



of young shoots at the base. If these are taken off 

 just below the soil level, inserted singly in small pots 

 filled with sandy soil, and placed beneath a handlight 

 in the greenhouse, they will form roots without difficulty. 

 Care should be taken to wipe the moisture from inside the 

 glass each morning, and to keep the soil only slightly moist. 



I often wonder why more people do not grow specimen 

 Chrysanthemums, those big bushes bearing dozens, even 

 scores, of blooms ; they are very handsome and really 

 not difficult. It is important to make an early start 

 with the cuttings, and now is the time ; then they will 

 have a long season in which to form the numerous stems 

 required to make a satisfactory specimen. The Chrys- 

 anthemum is an accommodating plant, and innumerable 

 stems may be created by continuing to remove the 

 points of existing ones. The earlier the cuttings are 

 put in, the greater the number of stems it is possible 

 to obtain. A few years ago remarkable specimen Chrys- 

 anthemums were to be seen at exhibitions, plants that 

 were grown from year to year and produced hundreds 

 of blooms. One does not often see them now. 



Plants in a frame, such as Cineraria, Primula, Calceo- 

 laria, need very careful watering, otherwise the leaves 

 will "damp off." A temperature of from 45 to 50 is 

 high enough for these. Those who have not yet potted 

 bulbs for spring flowering may still do so with very 

 fair prospects of success. So accommodating are ordinary 

 kinds that they may be potted and placed on the stage 

 of the cold greenhouse and allowed to form roots there, 

 instead of being plunged in ashes. The latter method is 

 110 doubt the best, but it is perhaps worth while pointing 

 out an alternative and less exacting way to those who 

 are content with ordinarily good flowers. Lilies that 

 have been potted within the last few weeks, or that 

 may be potted now, need scarcely any water during the 

 winter months, providing they are, as they ought to 

 be, in a frame or greenhouse, safe from frost. 



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