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staked from the first. All other matters are supplementary 
rather than necessary. To insure fine flowers, the soil should 
be well manured, and the plants freely watered, and the 
shoots should be reduced to six for each plant at the utmost, 
and the top flower-bud on each shoot should alone be allowed 
to remain after the buds have become fairly visible. In 
tying out, aim at forming a compact head, but allow space 
between the shoots for light and air; for shade and confine¬ 
ment are most detrimental, though these are such excellent 
town plants. The Pompone varieties make magnificent beds, 
and are quite necessary for the border. When grown on 
sloping banks, the large-flowering kinds may be pegged down, 
to produce rich festoons and sheets of flowers. So, indeed, 
may the pompones ; but as the flowers of these are small, they 
are not so well adapted for surfacing, but they make most 
beautiful bushes. Very much being said in the books about 
“ stopping” (that is, pinching out the shoots) it may be well 
here to say that when grown as a border plant, the chrysan¬ 
themum should never be stopped. The smallest plant put out 
in April will make shoots enough long before the time of 
flowering, and though stopping does increase their number, it 
causes the plants to flower later than they would do if not 
stopped, and that means a pretty certain loss of the flowers 
altogether, for frost may catch them before the flowers are 
out. The large-flowering kinds make good wall plants, and 
may be trained to low fences and dividing screens with advan¬ 
tage ; for they are at least green all the summer, and in 
October and November make a splendid show of flowers. 
BEST ONE HUNDRED CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
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General Slade , Gloria Mundi , Golden Beverley , Golden Dr. 
Brock , Golden John Salter , Guernsey Nugget , Her Majesty , 
Isabella Bott , Jardin des Plantes , John Salter , Lady Hardinge , 
Lady Slade , Le Grand , Lord Derby , Miss Mary Morgan , Mrs. 
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Perfection. 
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