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ON THE GROWTH OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR EXHIBITION. 
cent., nor that of clay fifty per cent. Loamy soils, nest to the richer garden moulds, belong to the 
very best soils ; they are easily cultivated, and yield abundant crops of almost any kind. Many 
alluvial deposits, which are celebrated for fertility, are loamy soils. Sandy loams, clay loams, marly 
loams, are terms applied to particular kinds of loamy soils, in 'which the physical properties of silicious 
sand, clay, or lime, appear more prominently than in others. 
ANALYSES OF LOAMY SOILS. 
(NO. I. II., DR. ANDERSON ; NO. in., DR. SPRENGEL ; NO. IV., DR. PLAYFAIR.) 
Silica ...... 
Peroxide of Iron .... 
Oxide of Manganese .... 
Alumina ..... 
Lime ...... 
Magnesia ..... 
Potash ...... 
Soda ...... 
Sulphuric Acid ..... 
Phosphoric Acid ..... 
Carbonic Acid ..... 
Chlorine ..... 
Organic Matter ..... 
Water ...... 
No. I. 
No. II. 
No. IU. 
No. rv. 
Soil. 
Subsoil. 
Soil. 
Subsoil. 
03.19.54 
4.8700 
14.0400 
.8300 
1.0200 
2.8001 
1.4392 
.0911 
.2400 
.0500 
.009S 
8.5508 
2.7000 
61.6358 
6.2303 
14.2470 
1.2756 
1.3938 
2.1761 
1.0450 
.0396 
.2680 
.0200 
6.8270 
4.5750 
74.3927 
4.7180 
5.5440 
1.3913 
.7468 
1.7142 
.6788 
.1006 
.1460 
.0068 
6.3271 
4.4260 
73.6416 
4.9230 
9.3830 
.7189 
.8489 
.1540 
.0367 
.2060 
.1640 
.0060 
5.8554 
4.2810 
87.143 
2.220 
.360 
5.666 
.564 
.312 
.120 
.025 
.027 
.060 
.080 
.036 
3.337 
81.26 
3.41 
3.58 
1.28 
1.12 
.80 
1.50 
.09 
.38 
.92 
trace. 
2.43 
2.60 
loss 
0.63 
99.8364 1 99.8621 
100.2923,100.2185 
100.000| 100.000 
No. T. Clay loam, resting on the old red-sandstone, situated on the north bank of the Tay, near Perth. Good wheat soil. 
No. II. Excellent wheat loam, near Dunbar, Scotland. 
No. III. Alluvial loam, a virgin soil, celebrated for its fertility, from the banks of the Ohio, North America. 
No. IV. Sandy loam of a very productive field near Sutton, in Norfolk. 
ON" THE GEOWTH OF CHEYSAXTHEIITTMS FOE EXHIBITION. 
By Mr. G. GLENNY, F.H.S. 
tfipHE cultivation of Chrysanthemums for single blooms is totally different from the management 
IX required when the beauty of the plant is the object. By taking off the tops of the plants in July, 
and striking them with slight bottom heat, they will be ready for potting into five-inch pots in 
August, and they may stand out of doors until September, when they should be repotted into the next 
size in rich compost formed of half good loam from rotted turf, one fourth dung from a melon bed, and 
one fourth decayed leaves. This is to be well mixed, and laid together a few days. In potting from 
one size to the other let the ball be undisturbed; and let them be watered and have all the air they 
can in mild weather. They will grow rapidly, but this is no object when the flower is to be cut. Let 
them stand near the light, and have plenty of room and no touch of frost. By no means attempt to 
hasten or retard them : let the bloom have its natural growth ; and, if there is reason to fear they will 
be too forward, keep half the stock on the shady side of the house, or temporarily shade them. But 
as, in a collection, there will be but little danger of missing the season with some, or rather with all, it 
is better to let them all go on their own way, for a bloom once checked will never open freely, and a 
variety naturally good may be easily spoiled by sudden changes of heat and cold. It is almost better 
to miss altogether with a particular variety, than to attempt to advance or retard it. 
As soon as the buds show, be on the look out for the side ones, that they may be taken off at an 
early stage and the whole strength thrown into the single flower. In this way they may be flowered 
thrice the size that the blooms would come in the ordinary way. The most that should be attempted 
is to shade the flowers from any very hot sun that may occur in October and November ; ond above nil 
things, even when giving air, sec that there be no wind or draft playing upon them, for wind is worse 
than sun to an open flower. 
The plants which arc to be shown as plants, should be cither dwarfed for small pots, or stopped 
and grown the whole season pretty sharply for larger specimens. Beginning with the cuttings, which 
should be provided early in the year, while they arc in small pots and with four pair of leaves, pinch 
out the heart and let the laterals grow three inches long, when they may be pinched also ; and. as they 
advance, there will be plenty of side shoots to form a good bush. They may. during the first two 
months of the year, be in cold frames, covered against violent frosts, but having nil the air in mild 
weather. If the plants arc bushy enough, let them be potted into six-inch pots in the compost already 
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