CHAPTER V 



General Cultural Details 



In Hbout one week after planting, the young 

 plants will begin to show signs of renewed activity. 

 Let them start clean. The only thing likely to infest 

 them at this early date is green, or black fly, and- 

 every effort should be made to extirpate these pests 

 immediately the plants are in their permanent 

 quarters, b} r sprinkling with tobacco dust or by several 

 successive fumigations. Neglect to do so will have 

 disastrous consequences that can hardly be remedied. 

 Moreover, once started into a clean, vigorous growth, 

 this satisfactory condition will probably continue for 

 many weeks without a renewed attack. It is now 

 entirely a question of the grower playing the master 

 hand, with a full realization of the fact that the grow- 

 ing period is a time of little things, an infinity of 

 apparently trifling details, not one of which, however, 

 can be trifled with. The measure of success ultimately 

 attained is just in proportion to the attention given 

 to detail, and the doing each day, and week, the 

 things necessary to be done, promptly and efficiently. 



VENTILATION 



Our American method of growing Chrysanthe- 

 mums entirety under glass, though necessitated by the 

 uncertainty and changeableness of weather, is still 

 somewhat of an unnatural cultural condition. This 

 has to be compromised or remedied by free and abund- 

 ant ventilation. Of all the plants we grow beneath 



