362 Account of the Cultivation of Chinese Chrysanthemums. 



the tops of all the plants are nipped off to make them bushy, 

 and when they put out fresh side shoots, no more of these 

 are allowed to remain for flowering than the plants are likely 

 to be able to support. In the month of August, the whole 

 are shifted into thirty-two sized pots, which are afterwards 

 arranged in an open airy situation as before, at such distances 

 as to allow the plants plenty of room to grow without touching 

 each other's leaves. Here it is necessary that they should 

 be frequently moved, in order to prevent the roots growing 

 through the pots into the earth. It is also requisite that the 

 plants be now tied up to sticks. The compost used in the last 

 potting is strong loam, with about one-third of rotten dung. 

 The pots are not taken under glass until they have formed 

 their flower buds, and even until some of the earlier sorts are 

 beginning to expand their flowers. In setting the plants in a 

 glass-house, for shew, it is necessary to mix the varieties as 

 much as possible. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 the plants have been placed in a small curvilinear house fifty 

 feet long, which holds about seven hundred pots at one time, 

 there being no other plants but Chrysanthemums put into it 

 at their flowering season, and at a moderate calculation, that 

 quantity exhibited in the past season ten thousand flowers 

 expanded at once. Some of the large plants which flowered 

 the preceding season, of which a few are always kept over, 

 produced about sixty or seventy flowers each. 



It has not been the practice in the Garden of the Society 

 to reduce the number of flowering buds, as recommended by 

 Mr. Joseph Wells in his Paper above referred to; for 

 although the blossoms on a plant so managed come some- 

 what larger, the effect of a greater number of flowers, though 



