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plants. The Chinese, who are particularly fond of this plant, 

 manage to flower them in a much smaller state, and in smaller 

 pots than we are in the hahit of seeing them. To attain this, 

 they propagate them from cuttings, which they take off in May, 

 and when rooted, pot them into small pots, in which they 

 flower the following autumn. By this method, they manage 

 to produce plants clothed with foliage, from the pot up to the 

 flowers, which they have of a large size, hy not allowing more 

 than from three to five to remain on each plant. In this, and 

 a liheral application of li(iuid manure, consist the whole of 

 their culture. 



We have observed in some of the London nurseries, a plan 

 adopted which has the result of producing neat little plants 

 with plenty of bloom, which in itself is as simple and com- 

 plete as that of the Chinese ; but the plants are not all so 

 handsome as those by the preceding method. For this pur- 

 pose, the plants are plunged out in the open borders where 

 they are fully exposed to the sun, and continue to grow till 

 the betjinning of September, when the shoots that have shown 

 flower-buds are bent down, and laid in the common manner 

 into pots, of the sizes called large sixties or small forty-eights, 

 where in a short time the shoots send out roots at the part 

 laid in the small pots; and when these roots are sutticiently 

 formed to support the young }>lant, they are disengaged from 

 the parent, and after being tied up and cleaned, are removed 

 into frames or pits, where they are shaded for a few days, and 

 attended to with water, &c. They soon establish themselves, 

 and perfect their flowers, when they are removed into the 

 green-house or drawing-room. Such plants are from a foot 

 to eighteen inches high, and produce from four to six fully 

 perfected flowers. The buds which have naturally been formed 

 are not all allowed to remain on, but, like the Chinese gar- 

 deners, they take them off', leaving only three, four, five, or 

 six, accordingly as the plant may have rooted. 



Liquid manure is given occasionally, to enable the plant to 

 perfect fully its flowers. 



Chrysanthemums planted out in the open borders, do not 

 require to be ever taken up, unless the soil and situation be 

 damp and uncongenial ; and, in such cases, it is better to pro- 

 pagate annually by cuttings, for stock for future use, than to 



