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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
quantity of blooms, all at one time, is desired, one of two things must be 
done—either to grow a great number of sorts, or to scheme a little, in keeping 
some back, and bringing others on; the former being accomplished in a cool 
and shady place, the latter with a little heat. Care, however, will be required; 
for a little extra sun or heat will soon cause the petals to fall back, and spoil 
the best flowers. In all cases where good blooms are to be grown, whether 
the flowers are to be large and incurved, reflexed or Anemone-like, something 
of the same treatment may be given, the object being to throw the whole 
strength of the plant into a limited number of flowers ; but it does not always 
follow that if you limit the number of blooms to the smallest quantity they 
will invariably be the better. I have sometimes found better blooms on a 
plant bearing six or seven than on one bearing only two. Possibly this may 
be merely accident; but the mere possibility of it may suggest a useful fact. 
A plant with half a dozen blooms on it is more ornamental than one having 
only two or three, and is better adapted for conservatory decoration, conse¬ 
quently a decorative plant may be grown at the same time that good blooms 
are a consideration. In growing large blooms a most important matter is to 
have really good sorts. I do not profess to be able to go far into this matter, 
but have no fear of recommending the following as a good selection :— White, 
Defiance, Formosum, Mrs. W. Holborn, Vesta, and Lady St. Clair; Yellow, 
Plutus, Jardin des Plantes, Yellow Formosum, Golden Trilby, and Yellow Per¬ 
fection. Dark, Doctor Rosas, xlregine, Sydenham, Progne, Nil Desperandum, 
King, kc. Among Blush, Pink, kc., Queen of England and Alfred Salter 
may be grown very large ; also Lady Harding, Novelty, Beauty, Hermione, 
Trilby, and others. Orange, kc., as Dupont de l’Eure, General Bainbrigge, 
Orange Perfection, Lord of the Isles, kc. I have grown many other sorts that 
. are likely to be admired, but cannot call them to mind at present, but may 
refer to them at some future time. Those who live in remote parts of the 
country need experience no difficulty in getting them. It is only necessary to 
send address and stamps to those who advertise, as I have found in dealing 
with Bird, of Stoke Newington; cuttings have been promptly returned, and 
they are very easily struck. 
In a future paper I hope to have a word to say respecting the height, size, 
shape, and sorts best adapted for growing for conservatory decoration. 
In growing Chrysanthemums for conservatory decoration, it is necessary to 
keep in view the internal arrangement of the building in which the plants are 
to be displayed. I have had to grow them very tall and thin for standing 
on the ground amongst other plants ; so that the flowers would show out 
amongst the foliage. For this purpose I have found such sorts as Aimee 
Ferriere, King Christian, Vesta, Formosum, and the like tall-growing sorts 
very useful, the culture of them being the same as formerly described for 
growing large blooms; only where the size of bloom is no great object, it is 
better to allow as much flower as the plant will bear, the size of pots, &c., 
being a matter of convenience. I have seldom found it necessary to use larger 
than nine-inch; but of ^course the larger the pots the greater the masses of 
bloom. 
For this purpose standards also come in very useful, and as these are rather 
more difficult to grow, I may as well describe the process in detail. Pompones 
are rather better adapted to this style than the larger sorts, on account of 
their making a more compact head. There is some difficulty, however, in 
forming the stocks; there are some sorts that will do so better than others, as 
Cedo Nulli, Mrs. Dix, Brilliant, Canary Bird, &c. The only way to make sure 
of them is to take the tallest offsets you can get, with a little root to them, pot 
singly in small pots; place in a greenhouse, where they are likely to 
