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EVERGREEN LODGE, 
as the case may be, must be attained before the top is pinched off. To attain 
this height of the single stem, all side shoots must be carefully watched aud 
rubbed off as quick as they appear, also any shoots that show a tendency to 
start from the roots, allowing only the one straight, stem to grow, which must 
have a good stake to protect it. and keep it straight. When flic desired height 
is attained, pinch the top off and treat the new shoots that come from the sides 
as before directed, and allow none to come out on main stem for say Ibirly 
inches above the ground. If your main stem has not attained thirty-six inches 
in height before pinching, of course shoots must be allowed to come, out a little 
lower down, so as to form a good head. In growing standards they must be 
kept in pots all the 'time, that is where they are wanted for conservatory or 
room decoration in the Fall, as there would be danger of loosing them when 
transplanting to pots after all their growth was made ill open ground. In the 
far South, where they remain out all the time, it. is not necessary to keep them 
in pots, but may be grown to standards in the open ground with the same care 
as the other Chrysanthemums. 
RE is hardly a plant which is more popular among all 
classes on the globe than what is generally known as the 
Horse-Shoe, Zonule, or Fish Geranium. The Geranium 
is found under many different circumstances ; it helps to 
embellish the conservatories of millionaires as well as the 
homes of the humble and industrious, but it loses nothing 
of its inherent beauty on that account. It wanders with 
the household furniture from place to place, and the good 
wife makes a special request to her husband not to forget 
her Geranium. The propagation of the Geranium is uni- 
versally known. Every woman knows how to slip it or 
grow it from cuttings ; it is also produced freely from seed. They stand the hot 
sun of the South better than any ot her class of plants. They produce more 
Lowers and make a. better display on whatever place they are grown than any- 
thing that could be grown on a similar space; Our stock is very fine, and much 
larger than we ever sent out before. 
