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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Dec. 20th, 1884. 
IE JsLMAflllS’ GAUM. 
Chrysanthemum. Culture.—How often is the 
question asked, “ What shall I do with my plants 
after they have done blooming ? ” and again, “ How 
shall I strike the cuttings ? ” In the way of a reply 
to both questions, I propose to give a few hints upon 
their culture, which may be useful to amateurs and 
young beginners. Let us commence with the month 
of November, when the plants have done blooming. 
Look at them for a moment: see the suckers thrown 
up all round the roots, how drawn and sappy they 
look, through the plants having been placed close 
together in the conservatory or greenhouse. If these 
were taken as cuttings and put in at once they could 
not be depended upon for producing good blooms, 
therefore the first thing to be done after the plants 
have ceased blooming is to cut them down to within 
about 6 ins. of the soil. They should then be placed 
in a eold frame or stood out-of-doors in a sheltered 
position, taking care that the frost does not touch 
them. 
After they have been so placed for a few days, the 
cuttings will be sufficiently hardened to commence 
operations 'for next season’s display, i.e., if good 
exhibition plants are desired; but if the plants are 
only wanted for decorative purposes it will be quite 
soon enough to commence striking cuttings in 
February next. 
Presuming that the cuttings are required to be put 
in now, the soil should be got ready for them. It 
must be remembered that for striking the cuttings a 
particularly good soil is not required, in fact they may 
be struck in almost any ordinary garden soil, providing 
it is not too heavy, with the addition of silver sand, 
but a good compost for striking cuttings in, consists of 
equal quantities of loam and leaf-soil, with plenty of 
silver sand, and if leaf-soil is not to be had cocoa-fibre 
will do as well. They are best struck in 3-in. pots, 
and the pots should be perfectly clean and must be 
well crocked to insure perfect drainage. Fill up the 
pots nearly to the rims with the soil, and press it down 
firmly, and over this place a sprinkling of silver 
sand. 
The strongest cuttings should be selected and taken 
off with a sharp knife, and should be about 3 ins. or 
4 ins. long; neatly cut off the lower leaves and then 
insert four or five around the sides of the pots, press 
the soil firmly around them and then water and place 
them in a cold frame close to the glass, and keep the 
frame shut up close till they are established, covering 
the glass in frosty weather. When they show signs 
of having commenced to root, give air pretty freely 
(except in bad weather) to keep them strong and 
prevent them from becoming drawn. Nothing more 
will be required to be done till February, when it must 
be decided for what purpose the plants are to be 
grown, viz., whether for obtaining cut blooms for 
exhibition, or for growing into specimen plants, or 
for conservatory decoration. 
Cuttings of Pompons should not be inserted till 
February, but cuttings of the single varieties should 
also be struck now, if large plants are desired, and 
no greenhouse, however small, should be without a 
few of these useful varieties. In my next I will give 
some hin ts on their general cultivation.— W.E. Boyce, 
Holloway. 
a crop has just been taken, without digging or any 
other preparation whatever, except clearing of weeds. 
They do best when planted a good distance apart, as 
when thick they are apt to get drawn.— C. Warden. 
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The Aucuba-leaved Daisy. —Amateurs and 
others desiring to make their gardens cheerful and 
pretty during the spring months should add this 
charming little Daisy to their list. Its name, 
aucubaefolia, implies that it resembles a well-known 
themselves. Probably it is not all who are aware of 
the ready means there are of securing a stock of these 
plants, by purchasing cuttings at this time and 
onwards for a few months of nurserymen who make a 
speciality of their culture. Several of the firms who 
advertise in your columns are known to me as being 
reliable growers, from whom cuttings as well as plants 
can be obtained. Cuttings of all the leading varieties 
may now be purchased at a very reasonable cost, and 
from these may be had, with proper treatment, flowers 
and plants of the greatest perfection the first season. 
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Potting-up Wallflowers. — Wallflowers are 
universal favourites, emitting as they do an odour 
peculiarly their own, and which, like the Mignonette 
and the Stock, is generally appreciated, so with such 
a general favourite, we cannot well have it too long 
in our presence. Those who have surplus plants left 
from the autumn planting of the spring garden, I 
would advise to pot them up into suitable sized pots, 
and stand them in a cold frame till the middle or end 
of February, when if introduced to a conservatory or 
greenhouse, they will soon unfold their blossoms and 
emit their delicious odour. Dwarf sturdy plants are 
the best for the purpose, and to get them in such a 
condition needs the simplest treatment. Seed is 
sown in April, in a sunny aspect, and the plants 
dibbled out on an open piece of ground, from which 
plant in colour, but in the spring season its leaves are 
much more golden than the Aucuba, while the green 
streaks in the leaf are an additional charm to it, 
contrasting as they do with the broader markings of a 
bright golden hue. It will make a lovely edging for 
small beds or plots in the spring garden, or groups of 
it well elevated will have a good effect in any spring 
garden arrangement.— W. Hollins. 
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Chrysanthemums. —The following is a selection 
of Chrysanthemums that may be useful to some of 
these amateurs who are contemplating the culture of 
these plants, and who may not have seen a collection 
or have been to a show this season to choose for 
I name only three dozen varieties, for who could do 
less from about three hundred, but I can answer for 
their being distinct and good:—Japanese, White : 
Alba plena, Elaine, Fair Maid of Guernsey; Red : Abd- 
el-Kader and La Incomparable; Rose; Comtesse de 
Beauregard and Madame B.Rendatler; Pink : Baronne, 
de Prailley and Madame Clemence Audiguier; Yellow; 
Meg Merrilies and Peter the Great. Large Flowering, 
White : Empress of India and Mrs. Geo. Bundle; 
Pink ; Alfred Salter and Miss Mary Morgan; Yellow : 
Annie Salter and Mrs. Dixon; Crimson: Dr. Sharp, 
Julia Lagravere, and King of the Crimsons ; Bronze : 
Barbara and Mrs. Howe; Rose: Fingal and Lady 
Hardinge. Pompons, Yellow: Aigle d’Or ; Orange : 
Aurora Borealis; White; Cedo Nulli, Madlle. Marthe, 
