110 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 



giving them a refined finish that can be obtained in no 

 other way. Long sprays are magnificent when grown 

 to perfection and there is scarcely anything better 

 for decorative work where such sprays can be used. 

 The best way to grow them is in a house, and giving 

 them about the same general treatment that is given 

 the large varieties, except the disbudding. They must 

 have plenty of room so as to secure good foliage and 

 flowers all up the stems, in which state they are unsur- 

 passed for beauty, and deserve to be more extensively 

 grown in this manner. 



As pot plants, the small or dwarf varieties have 

 no equal, either for specimen plants in large pots or for 

 the retail trade in small pots. They should be grown 

 in two and one-half or three-inch pots until the middle 

 of July or first of August, then shifted to four or five- 

 inch pots and plunged in a frame or some place where 

 they can be watered and fed to some extent and a 

 little care given to pinching back, although the proper 

 varieties will not need much of that. Nice plants 

 twelve to twenty, inches high and the same in diameter, 

 with heads on them like an Azalea, will result if 

 well grown. 



For bedding outside, varieties that are rather 

 dwarf are the best where it is not desirable to have 

 them growing all summer or when they are wanted to 

 fill in beds where Coleus, Crotons, Acalyphas, etc., have 

 been used in the summer. They can be grown in the 

 garden or nursery and after the other plants begin to 

 show the effects of the cold nights, then the Chrysan- 

 themums may be carefully lifted and planted in the 

 beds with very satisfactory results. It is better to do 

 this when the weather is somewhat cloudy and not 

 windy; then, if they be well watered, no bad effects 

 will follow and the beds will make a very favorable 



