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an open, sunny situation, and should be planted 

 eighteen inches apart. 



Chrysanthemum. The showy white Ox-eye 

 Daisies, Chrysanthemum maximum, are well 

 known to every one, and are useful in a garden, 

 though one can easily have too much of them. But 

 there is a beautiful variety with fringed petals (G. 

 leucanthemum Robinsoni) that is of much more 

 elegant growth, and an extremely good plant. They 

 can all be increased by division of the roots, but 

 they can also be grown easily from seed, and this 

 is rather a good plan, for they then flower late in 

 August and September and are doubly welcome. 



The early out-of-door varieties of the autumn 

 Chrysanthemums are well worth growing; you 

 need not have all the small pom-pom flowered 

 sorts, for these are apt to be either brickdust red, 

 magenta, or greenish orange, but the yellow and 

 white Japanese sorts, and some of the pink, are 

 lovely, and should be grown in every garden. You 

 can increase them either by division or cuttings, 

 taking the new young shoots after the plants have 

 flowered, and striking them under glass, pot them 

 separately as soon as they have rooted ; they must 

 be kept under glass for the winter, or in a cold 



