13 THE LADY’S MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
Chrysanthemums grown in British gardens were importations from 
China. 
The botanical name of the Chinese Chrysanthemum has been changed 
several times. The old botanists who first described it called it Matricaria, 
supposing it to be a kind of wild Chamomile. Linnaeus called it Chrysan¬ 
themum indicum, which Mr. Sabine changed to C. sinense; Willdenow 
gave it the name of Anthemis artemisisefolia ; and Professor De Candolle 
has now removed it to the genus Pyrethrum, or Feverfew. 
The culture of the Chrysanthemum, even at the present day, strongly 
resembles what Rumphius tells us of the practice of the Chinese; as it is 
found that it is apt to degenerate if not renewed frequently from cuttings, 
or transplanted, as it soon poisons the ground in which it grows. 
Manuring the soil with thoroughly rotten manure, or vegetable mould, 
will, however, generally prevent the necessity of removal. The cuttings 
should be made in spring, generally in April, and they will flower the 
same year ; they should be taken off the points of the shoots, and three 
pairs of leaves should be taken off them, including those springing from 
the joint at which the cutting was cut off. The plants should be grown 
in light rich soil; and, if grown in pots, they should be frequently shifted 
to keep them bushy. In August or September they should begin to be 
watered with manured water or soap-suds ; and if the flowers are wished 
to be very fine, the flower-buds should be thinned out as soon as they 
appear. The flowers against a wall, when expanded, should be slightly 
protected from severe frosts, which would soon destroy their beauty. 
There are tw r o or three points to be particularly attended to in the 
culture of the Chrysanthemum. One of them is to water the plants 
copiously and regularly ; and when the foliage flags, as it will do if 
exposed to the powerful heat of the sun, to sprinkle them all over their 
leaves with a fine rose watering-pot, lightly as a slight shower, sometimes 
as often as three times a day in the warmest weather. Sprinkling the 
leaves of the Chrysanthemum with water, even when the sun is full upon 
them, does not blister them, as it would do the leaves of most other 
plants, but increases their size and vigour wonderfully, and makes the 
plants, which are naturally very slow-growing, increase rapidly. Another 
thing to be attended to is never to set pots containing Chrysanthemums 
on coal ashes, as is often done with greenhouse plants to prevent worms 
from creeping into the pots through the holes at the bottom • and another 
is to manure the beds frequently in which the plants are grown in the 
open-air grounds, with rotten stable manure. 
The number of kinds of the Chinese Chrysanthemum is so great, that 
it is impossible to give a list of the whole. In 1826, Mr. Sabine published 
