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Chrysanthemum, but the above is by far the best 

 with a view to flowering them in the green-house. 



The Georgina is a plant as easily cultivated as the 

 common potato, and, like it, the chief attention it 

 requires is to keep the roots from being injured by 

 frost. For this purpose they are taken up yearly in 

 autumn, and kept in dry sand in a cellar or shed 

 during winter. In spring, those intended to flower 

 early are planted in pots in February, and forwarded 

 in a pit or hot-bed, and when grown one foot or more, 

 by the end of May they are planted in the open air, 

 either turned out of the pot or the pot buried in the 

 soil. Those meant to flower later are planted in the 

 potato season in May in the open ground ; and those 

 intended to flower late in the green-house are re- 

 served in dry sand till the end of May or beginning 

 of June, and then potted and plunged in the open 

 ground. When they come up, limit the stems to one 

 or three, and tie them neatly to rods of three or four 

 feet in length. They will throw out side-shoots, which 

 require to be thinned when they are very numerous ; 

 and at no time should more than one flower-bud be 

 allowed to come forward on each side shoot. About 

 the beginning of October their future beauty and ef- 

 fect may be predicted, and now they ought to be 

 nicely adjusted to the props, a bud left on each side- 

 shoot, and three or four on the top of the main shoot. 

 Remove them to the crreen-house, and treat them 

 exactly as the Chrysanthemums. 



The Georgina requires a pot at least six inches 'm 



