dkqrjell & Sor^’ J'loi‘h-1 Gfuide. 
At the great National Show at the Royal Aquarium, 
where we had exhibits extending 40 ft. in length, repre- 
senting all the sections of Chrysanthemums, the entire 
public was in favour of the system, the mechanical formal 
green flat boards of the neighbouring exhibit being 
frequently contrasted with ours. We all know that large 
glaring flowers without green lose half their charm, 
whereas by this system a natural green can be added and 
their own lovely foliage can be shown as well, which gives 
the whole an exquisite appearance, and all societies must 
eventually offer prizes for the best blooms set up in a rose 
box in this manner: a box 4 ft. fi in. long, back (1 in. high, 
front 4 in. high, made to exhibit twenty -four roses, will 
stage cither of the following — twelve incurved (three to 
four blooms to the bunch), twelve recurved (ditto), twelve 
varieties of Japanese (ditto), twelve large Anemones 
(ditto), eighteen Pompons or eighteen Pompon Anemones 
(ditto). Cut the flowers, and wire each separately, so 
that the blooms can he faced in any direction, bunching 
three together with a bit of moss between ; so that they 
are a nice distance from bloom to bloom, and arranged to 
height, colour, and size. It will be necessary to have zinc 
tubes l£ inches in diameter, and about 4 inches long, with 
a flat foot stand to keep them erect, and place them in 
accordance with the height of the box, so that when all is 
done they show one continuous face, every flower in its 
proper position; one half-inch cut too high or too low 
will destroy its artistic arrangement. When carried out 
well, such an exhibit will be the pride of the show. A 
thick circular piece of cardboard should be placed at the 
back of the flowers of the Japanese, large Anemones, and 
incurved flowers to hold up their petals ; that is, cut a 
round the size required, and make a hole in the centre of 
the card for the f-tem, cut to the outside, and pin in the 
shape of a lamp shade, with a bit of raffia round the stem, 
which will hold it up in its place ; this, together with some 
nice stub moss for the surface of box, is all that is necessary; the other few details cun be” seen to 
as it is being proceeded with. 
For Box, Tubes, &e., see end of Catalogue. 
For the best treatise, “ How to grow the Chrysanthemums to perfection,” 
see Molyneux’s Book, sent post free, Is. 2d. 
Our stock is such as to enable us to supply well-established plants of the whole of the varieties in 
November, they will then all be in flower, and for immediate decoration, propagation, and 
correctness to name, leave nothing to be desired. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM CUTTINGS. 
We have adopted quite a new course with our stock for the supply of cuttings, which we 
believe will be much more satisfactory to the purchasers, and far more successful than those 
supplied in the usual way from plants which have stood close together with their long drawn-up 
cuttings, and often from those not very healthy, whose colours have been strained to the utmost. 
We now plant out our stock of young plants first week in May in the open ground, and cut them 
down the end of September, then lilt them with large halls of earth and plant them in our earth - 
stnge. close against the glass. They soon begin to throw up quantities of cuttings of a short sturdy 
nature, quite diflereut to those from exhibition plants, and the difference is such that all growers who 
have seen our two houses, 100 ft. each, full of these roots, would decide never to grow from the 
over-worked old stools again. 
