CULTURE OF THE CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
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When it is desirable to have very large flowers, their size may be increased by 
thinning out the small buds soon after they appear. 
13. Watering. They require at all times a good supply of water, and during 
summer they are greatly benefited by being regularly watered twice a week at least, 
over the leaves. In August begin to water the pots with soap-suds, mixed with 
manure water, about once or twice a week, and continue it until they come into 
flower, which will be in November. 
14. When they have done flowering, set them in a situation where they will 
not be injured by frost, and occasional watering will be all the care they will require 
until the season again commences for propagation. It sometimes happens when 
the buds of plants in pots are all formed, and promise to flower finely, that shortly 
after the time of removing them into the house for flowering, the greater part die 
off without expanding. This we judge is occasioned in a general way by the roots 
being allowed to grow through the bottom of the pots into the soil on which they 
stood; and on being taken from that situation, the fibrous roots are broken, and 
the consequence is, a more sudden check to the plant than it was able to bear; 
the effects of which may be readily discovered by the flagging of the leaves, and the 
buds changing colour. This may be prevented by timely moving the pots and 
properly shifting into larger pots at the time required. 
The sorts in cultivation are as follows: — 
1. Changeable white. 
28. Late pink. 
2. Purple. 
29. Early blush. 
3. Quilled white. 
30. Park’s small yellow. 
4. Superb white. 
31. Blush ranunculus-flowered. 
5. Tasseled white. 
32. Tasseled yellow. 
6. Quilled yellow. 
33. Changeable pale buff. 
7. Sulphur yellow. 
34. Curled blush. 
8. Golden yellow. 
35. Tasseled lilac. 
9. Large lilac. 
36. Two coloured red. 
10. Rose or pink. 
37. Pale buff. 
11. Buff or orange. 
38. Windsor small yellow 
12. Spanish brown. 
39. Clustered pink. 
13. Quilled flamed yellow. 
40. Semidouble quilled pale orange. 
14. Quilled pink. 
41. Starry purple. 
15. Early crimson. 
42. Golden lotus flowered. 
16. Large quilled orange. 
43. Brown purple. 
17. Expanded light purple. 
44. Tw'fy coloured incurved. 
1 8. Quilled light purple. 
45. Late quilled yellow. 
19. Curled lilac. 
46. Yellow Waratah. 
20. Superb clustered yellow. 
47. Double Indian yellow. 
21. Semidouble quilled pink. 
48. Double Indian white. 
22. Semidouhle quilled white. 
49. Pale buff or orange. 
23. Semidouhle quilled orange. 
50. Expanded salmon coloured. 
24. Late pale purple. 
51. Pale flamed yellow. 
25. Quilled salmon colour. 
52. Old quilled pink. 
26. Small yellow. 
53. Pale variety of pale buff. 
27. Paper white. 
These numerous varieties, when published in the Horticultural Transactions, 
being without arrangement, the late A. H. Haworth, Esq., very ingeniously formed 
a kind of natural arrangement of them, and published it in the Gardener’s Magazine, 
vol. ix. p. 218, which we h^e extract in his own words. 
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vol. i. — NO. VIII. 
