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CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
There has grown up in recent years a method of rooting 
cuttings in shallow boxes, and potting up the cuttings 
so soon as rooted, placing these in deep “ thumb ” pots, 
and treating them subsequently, as advised for those 
rooted Individually in pots. Both methods are good, and 
the latter method is quite satisfactory, and very excellent 
plants may be raised in this way. 
We cannot impress too strongly upon growers how 
important it is to keep their plants quite cool, and when 
the young ones are placed in the cold frames, air should 
be admitted freely on all favourable occasions, so as to 
encourage a sturdy form of growth. When the genial 
weather of spring comes along, abundance of air may be 
given with advantage until the period arrives when the 
sun attains considerable power ; then it will be advan- 
tageous to remove the frame lights altogether. 
Stopping and Timing. — Stopping the plants and timing 
the buds is an aspect of culture of exhibition blooms that 
has attained considerable prominence in recent years, but 
it is a practice that is considerably overdone. The object 
of stopping and timing is to bring all plants to flower 
within a given period, so as to have the largest number of 
flowers possible at the period when the shows take place. 
By stopping — i.e. , pinching out the point of the growth 
of a plant — it may be possible to make an early variety 
flower late, and a late variety flower early, and in this way 
to bring the whole series of plants to perfection within 
the few weeks, during which the shows are held. 
In this short treatise it is impossible to go very fully 
into details, but for the guidance of the inexperienced 
we would point out that there are a number of varieties 
that may be stopped during the latter part of March, and 
allowed to grow on from this point to the second crown 
buds, and these plants invariably produce their buds in 
good time in August so as to evolve handsome flowers 
for the November shows. 
In other cases, by stopping plants in the first week in 
