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CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
CULTURE IN THE GARDEN. 
Decorative plants may also be planted outdoors with 
an almost certain prospect of success, and lifted and 
potted in early autumn. They need not be potted up in 
their early stages in the manner that those grown in pots 
usually are. As a matter of fact, they may be treated 
in the manner prescribed for the early and semi-early 
garden varieties. It will be remembered that the garden 
sorts, soon after rooting, were planted out in prepared 
soil in cold frames, and by a hardy system of culture were 
ready for planting out in their flowering quarters towards 
the end of May. It is a good plan to treat a batch of the 
decorative varieties in this manner, with the object in 
view of lifting the plants later on in the season. The 
smallest pieces rooted in the early summer, treated in this 
way, will make magnificent plants for lifting by the middle 
to the end of October, and the saving in labour is in- 
credible. As the plants are lifted from the open border, 
they should be transferred to pots of convenient size ; 
boxes also may be used for the same purpose. 
The plants should be embedded firmly in the soil about 
two feet apart, in rows of a convenient length to suit the 
circumstances of each individual grower. In this case, 
too, plant in rows about three feet apart, label each 
variety with care, staking at the same time, and looping 
the growths rather than tying them tightly together. 
This should save one all the bother and trouble of potting 
up the young plants in their early stages, and the subse- 
quent work of finally potting them. This method of 
treating the decorative sorts will be found a great boon. 
Some of the pompon sorts answer to this method of 
culture exceedingly well. We have lifted plants in this 
way, to follow the usual mid-season display of decorative 
varieties under glass, and they have kept the greenhouse 
and conservatory gay right throughout December. There 
is no doubt this simple method of culture will commend 
