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CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. 



There is such a thing as " dressing " flowers, in and they can be removed to prevent a little undue 



oraer that all incurved Chrysanthemums should be roughness in appearance. Nothing must be added to 



presented as even and regular in shape and size as the flowers; but superfluous and injured or imper- 



possible. Such finely-shaped flowers as Mrs. Geo. feet petals may be removed. 



Pompon (Mo-lel of Perfection). 

 Incurved (Mrs. Geo. Kundle). Japanese Incurved (Lord Beaconsfield). 



Chrtsaisthemums. 



Rundle do not require any dressing, but in others 

 there may be some deformity of petal, or they may 

 be a little irregular, and the tweezers soon make it 

 riiiht when used by a practised hand. It sometimes 

 happens that more petals are produced than required, 



The Pompon or small-flowered Chrysanthemums 

 are cultivated in much the same way as the large- 

 flowered Yarieties, but it is not necessary that dis- 

 budding be carried on to the same extent. The 

 Pompon varieties are often grown as standards, and 



