THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
3G7 
The cultivation of the Chrysanthemuin for conservatory decora- 
tion is remarkable for its simplicity. If the cuttings are struck in 
February or March, potted off when nicely rooted, and the plants 
shifted on, as occasion requires, until they are put in the pots in 
which they are to bloom, the result will be a grand display of colour 
during l!^ovember and a part of December. 
The plants will require shifting twice — the first shift being into 
six-inch pots, and the second into pots nine inches in diameter. 
To form bushy specimens, stop them twice ; the first stopping being 
performed when they are nicely established in the three-inch pots 
in which they were put when potted off separately, and the second 
when in the six-inch pots. They must have an open position during 
the summer season, and be well supplied with water. Sometimes 
the foliage will be attacked with green-fly, but this pest can be kept 
in subjection by dusting the leaves with tobacco-powder. To ensure 
fine fiowers, the buds must be thinned to one to eacli shoot, the 
terminal bud being usually the best to preserve. S. H. 
GARDEN BOWERS. 
BY A KENTISH GAEDENEK. 
ROPERLT constructed, a summer-house or bower, when 
nicely covered with climbing plants, is so much appre- 
ciated during the summer mouths, that I trust you will 
afford me space in the pages of the Floeal Woeld to 
make a few remarks upon the subject ; I feel assured 
they will be useful to amateurs, and before commencing to deal with 
the details, I would observe that now is the best time for planting 
climbing and other hardy plants, as they will obtain sufficient root- 
hold before the winter to enable them to make a vigorous growth in 
spring. 
To have suitable, well-made bowers in a garden, and to cover 
trellises well, are matters of importance. Frequently the plants are 
badly selected, subjects are used that are disagreeable from some 
causes or other, and therefore we rather take an interest in gathering 
together those really suitable, and a considerable amount of practical 
knowledge of the work is essential to a proper performance. It 
should be remarked that many of the plants suited for bowers, are 
equally well adapted for trailing over stumpy places, rough banks, and 
rough rockeries ; notably, the vines with which we begin our selec- 
tion. The following kinds of vines are simply useful for their trail- 
ing power, so to speak : — Vitis csstivalis, V. cordlfolia, V . heteropliylla 
variegata, V. ripaj'ia, V. Sieboldii, V. vinifera apiifolia, V. vulpina ; 
useful for falling over rocks, for low trellises, and even for bedding 
out. 
We ought, perhaps, to commence with the Ivies ; for this pur- 
pose certainly nothing can equal them as evergreen coverings for 
bowers. One of the prettiest bowers (for winter) that we have seen 
December. 
