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Unless frost is feared the house must not be shut up during the day just 
after the plants have been admitted. Any change in the conditions 
surrounding them must be made gradually; all the air possible should 
be given, and the house kept cool. 
A succession of bloom may be secured by a very simple arrange- 
ment. At the beginning of September select the most forward-looking 
pot-plants and place them in a row against a south wall; the remainder 
should be removed to a similar position before an east wall. The first 
batch should be placed under cover by the middle of October, and the 
second left by their east wall as long as it is safe to leave them outside, 
but not later than the middle of November. These will then come on in 
flower in succession to the first batch, and so ensure a good display for 
about a couple of months. Succession is also obtained by a selection of 
the varieties according to their time of flowering, beginning with the 
summer-flowering sorts such as Précocité and Madame Desgranges, and 
ending with the latest. A catalogue as supplied by dealers in Chrysan- 
themums is helpful in making a selection. The early-flowering varieties 
are now largely grown for borders and flower-beds, to which they are 
transferred from the nursery-ground in June or July. 
The foregoing remarks apply particularly to the autumn-flowermg 
species, with which the name Chrysanthemum in its popular sense 18 
more particularly identified. A few words may be given to the others. 
C. carinatum will be found a very useful annual for the 
ornamentation of borders; also as a pot-plant. Well-grown it is one of 
the most beautiful of hardy annuals. It may be sown from March to 
May where it is to flower, or in a reserve bed, whence the young plants 
may be taken with balls of earth and planted in bed or border about the 
end of May. For pot-culture a few seeds should be sown in the pots 
and grown in cold greenhouse or frame, OT, what is better, where the 
out-door seed-bed exists, a few sturdy plants may be taken from the bed 
and potted. It is well to pinch back the main shoot of pot-plants when 
they are about three inches high, to induce a more bushy growth. 
C. coronariwm should be similarly treated. : 
C. frutescens is not quite hardy, and requires somewhat 
different treatment. It may be propagated by cuttings made from the 
extremities of the branches at any time during summer, and struck in a 
frame, or in the ground if covered with a bell-glass. It is mostly used 
_ out of doors for filling garden vases and window-boxes ; also as a source 
of supply for cut blossoms. Like the Pelargoniums, this plant ‘ging be 
induced to produce flowers all the year round by a little care in the 
treatment. 
