348 On the Cultivation of the Chrysanthemum. 
as relative to agriculture or gardening ; I trust the subject will speedily 
be resumed in the Horticultural Register, and elucidated by abler pens 
than mine ; and I shall feel obliged to any of your philosophical corres- 
pondents who will explain the cause of the change above mentioned. 
I remain, yours, respectfully, 
Doncaster, Dec. 10, 1831. S. Appleby. 
Article IV. — On the Cultivation of the Chrysanthemum 
Indicum. By An Amateur Gardener. 
Gentlemen, 
I OBSERVE in your number for November, that this is one 
of the flowers upon the best mode of cultivating which, you purpose 
to give one or more papers. Being an admirer of the flower, as it 
enlivens the dreariness of Avintcr, I have long since cultivated it; and 
latterly, by the mode described in Loudon's " Encyclopaedia of Gar- 
dening," article 6475; but the daily trouble of watering, for five 
months in the year, with liquid manure, although there recommended 
as "simple," "elegant," &c. Is troublesome, and most inelegant. 
The last two years, the continual rains neutralized the benefits of 
the liquid manure, by washing it away, and I consequently had a bad 
show of bloom ; but observing some of the old stocks, which had been 
put in a bye-place, bloom abundantly, although never attened to, I was 
induced to seek for the cause, which I soon concluded to be, from the 
roots having found their way into the soil beneath ; I, at once, deter- 
mined to avail myself of the circumstance, this year. 
In the month of April, I took cuttings, and placed them in a gi-een- 
house, (a cucumber-frame would do) where, in about three weeks, I 
found them well rooted ; they were then potted, some one, and others 
two or three in a pot,* about five inches across, filled with light rich 
mould. Having provided a piece of rich ground, in a damp situation, 
the same was dug a spit deep, and a trench made ; into which, the 
pots, as well as the old stocks, were put, two inches apart, up to their 
rims, the trench filled up, and some half-rotted dung put over the pots, 
to the depth of four inches, in order to keep the ground moist. Here 
they remained until the 22nd of October, without being once watered; 
when the early -flowering ones being in full blossom, were removed to 
the greenhouse, — and by the 5th of November, in consequence of the 
appearance of frost, the whole were so removed. The roots that had 
found their way into the soil, (which they had very abundantly) were 
* Tlie unioa of two or tluec different colours, produces a most pleasing appearance. 
