your planting. I am often asked, does the garden take care of 
itself ? No indeed ! It requires the most careful watching, for 
the shy, dainty plants must not be crowded or too much shaded. 
The vines must not climb where they will and everything must 
be cared for. One secret I will tell — Tbe husband of the garden 
does not like to walk with the gardener because, he says, she 
never walks to enjoy it, but always with eyes that see much 
to be done — -and that is true. 
Alice G. B. Lockwood. 
Greenwich Garden Club. 
Hardy Chrysanthemums 
To most people the term "Hardy Chrysanthemum" means 
the small reel, white and yellow "button" varieties of grand- 
mother's garden. Today we have over one hundred varieties 
in several types and a wide range of colors. The hardy type 
may be divided into three classes, the tiny button varieties, the 
larger pompon, or Aster-flowered kinds and the still larger single 
and semi-double and flat-flowered varieties (not pompon). 
The flowers have been improved in size, shape and color, for 
while most of the modern varieties may be wintered safely with 
protection, they are not all as hardy as the old-time favorites. 
The so-called English, or early-flowering, types, bearing their 
large, fluffy blooms early in October, make a brave showing, 
but while the plants are reasonably hardy, the first hard frost 
burns the soft flowers and renders them unfit for decorative 
purposes. They should not be planted where severe freezing 
occurs too early in the autumn. 
The small, hard buttons or pompons, like their predecessors 
of grandmother's day, are hardy both as to plant and flowers. 
"With their tough, wiry stems, small hard leaves and tiny, 
compact flowers, they seem to defy frost and drought. 
The large pompons combine to a certain extent the hard- 
iness of the buttons with a larger, less compact flower and a 
wider range of color. They are probably the most useful of all 
in the average garden. 
The still larger flowered varieties with single, semi-double, 
flat or Anemone-flowered blooms, are, in the main, perfectly 
hardy and by many people preferred to the double types, espec- 
ially for cutting, on account of their looser, more artistic forms. 
The culture of these plants is simple. When the plants 
have finished flowering, or have been cut down by frost, they 
should be dug up and replanted in a cold-frame for storage. 
If a cold-frame is not available, a cool cellar will do, provided 
they are moved outside early in the following spring, before 
the shoots have had time to make a weak, tender growth. The 
latter part of April is about the correct time. These old plants 
may be planted over again the following season, or they may 
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