The Garden Magazine, March, 1923 
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bush on his hands with a dozen 
or more stems and buds already 
showing? If buds are far ad¬ 
vanced, there is nothing one 
can do; if buds are not far ad¬ 
vanced lop off all but the few 
most promising stems, disbud 
them and rely upon these for 
better blooms than could other¬ 
wise have been secured. 
Suckers at the base of the 
plants must be removed also. 
These will be noticed at about 
the time buds appear, and if 
not removed will divert much 
nourishment from the buds. It 
planted out, as removed, they 
wilLmake fine plants the fol¬ 
lowing year. 
WHAT THE VARIETIES ACTUALLY DID 
[As grown and recorded by the author in his 16 x 40 ft. city garden] 
October Blooming 
NAME 
CLASS 
COLOR 
SET OUT 
NO. OF 
BLOOMS 
FIRST 
CUTTING 
SIZE 
(Inches 
diameter) 
Tiger. 
Com. 
Yellow 
May 7 
Oct. 18 
4—5 
Angelo. 
Pom. 
Pink 
May 7 
4 
Oct. 19 
3 - 3 ! 
Sun Glow .... 
Com. 
Deep ^ el low 
May 7 
Oct. 22 
4— =» 
Smith’s Imperial 
Com. 
White 
Mav 7 
1 5 
Oct. 24 
5-6 
Pacific Supreme 
Com. 
Pink 
May 7 
Oct. 24 
4—5 
LePactole .... 
Hardy 
(Large) 
Bronze-Yellow 
May 14 
5 
Oct. 24 
32—4 
Betsy Ross, I. . 
Com. 
White 
June 17 
1 
Oct. 24 
5t 
’• II. . . 
Com. 
“ 
lune 17 
3 
Oct. 2s 
42—5 
Rose Delight . 
Com. 
Rose Pink 
May 7 
3 
Oct. 29 
4 — 5 
November Blooming 
w 
HEN “stopping” the 
plants, if three or four 
Christy Mathewson 
Ex. 
White 
May 14 
1 5 
Nov. 1 
5—6* 
Chieftain .... 
Com. 
Pink 
May 7 
5 
Nov. 3 
4—5 
Geo. H. Bruzard 
Ex. 
Wine Red 
Mav 14 
Nov. 5 
6—6 £ 
Chas. H. Totty, L. 
Ex. 
Mahogany and 
old gold 
May 7 
5 
Nov. 5 
5 t 
Mrs. 0. H. Kahn . 
Ex. 
Bronze 
May 14 
5 
Nov. 11 
5—6 
Wm. H. Waite . 
Ex. 
“ 
May 7 
3 
Nov. 12 
5-6 
Elberon . 
Ex. 
Pink 
June 6 
5 
Nov. 12 
5-5* 
“ (Golden). 
Ex. 
Yellow 
Mav 7 
4 
Nov. 12 
5—52 
“ (White) . . 
Ex. 
White 
May 7 
4 
Nov. 12 
5—5^ 
Chas. H. Totty, II. 
Ex. 
Mahogany and 
old gold 
May 14 
1 
Nov. 15 
6 } 
inches are nipped off, and all but the top leaves removed from 
these slips, they will root in three weeks, if placed in sharp sand 
in direct sunlight, and the sand kept wet, not moist. Set out per¬ 
manently, after rooting in a favorable situation, they will bloom 
the same season and at about the same time as the parent 
plants. This suggests another way to multiply plants at no 
expense whatever. If more than one slip of a kind is wanted, 
let a few laterals grow and use these; on account of coming out 
of sand rather later they may not be depended upon to bloom 
the same season, but will, however, make the finest plants in 
your garden the following year. This is assuming they will 
winter through and, strange to say and contrary to general be¬ 
lief, my Chrysanthemums of 
all types winter through nicely 
withnoothercarethan mound¬ 
ing up the earth around the 
base of each plant and cover¬ 
ing with manure or salt hay. 
Many will winter through un¬ 
der earth alone. This applies 
also to slips and suckers, if the 
latter be set out in time to take 
hold before severe frosts. The 
ease with which additional 
plants may be made as above 
suggested and the fact that for 
all these years 1 have scarcely 
lost a plant during the growing 
season, is my reason for so en- 
thusiastically recommending 
the growing of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums for large blooms as the 
most interesting garden work 
one can engage in. 
Protecting blooms from rain and against frost makes for 
finer blooms, but satisfactory flowers may be had without such 
protection, except in unusually wet weather. Frost is no 
longer to be feared by those who grow the early Commercial 
varieties in city back yards. 
1 should expect my results to be excelled on first trial by any¬ 
one more favorably situated. So much larger blooms than 1 
have obtained are possible—I have just received word of a 
bloom nine inches in diameter having been raised under muslin 
in the suburbs—that I hesitate to say more along this line, 
lest I create a doubt as to the trustworthiness of all 1 have 
written. 
II. LARGE BLOOMS FROM THE WIND SWEPT PRAIRIES 
VIOLA McCOLM, Kansas 
E VEN in western Kansas, Chrysanthemums will produce 
flowers from five to six-and-one-half inches in diameter. 
1 order plants for first of May delivery, and set them 
out about two feet apart, in a place somewhat sheltered 
from the south wind. They are staked early, and cultivated 
and irrigated the same as the rest of the garden. As soon as 
buds appear disbudding begins, and unless the plant is very 
large I allow only from two to six flowers; but if growth has been 
forced all summer, some varieties may produce eight or ten 
large blooms. However, such plants require a pot the size of a 
candy pail. 
Early in September the Chrysanthemums are potted— 
equal parts of ordinary soil, of sand, and of thoroughly rotted 
manure is the mixture 1 prefer. For several days they must 
remain in shade, and if a hot wind prevails 1 move them down 
cellar. After plants are established they are left outdoors as 
much as possible, and after frost drives them in are kept in a 
cool, sunny room. Disbudding and watering are faithfully 
attended to, and as flowering time approaches, about once a 
week, some liquid manure is poured on just after watering. 
Too much causes flowers to turn brown. Should aphis bother, 
a spray of sulphur-tobacco soap solution must be used. 
Major Bonnaffon, Col. D. Appleton, Well’s Late Pink, and 
White Wm. Turner are varieties so easy to succeed with. 1 
have had one plant of Well’s Late Pink produce ten perfect 
balls, each five inches through, and one White Wm. Turner 
carry six flowers each about six and one-half inches across, and 
all through November my Chrysanthemums are beautiful. 
III. HARDY VARIETIES FROM SEED IN ANY GARDEN 
MRS. WILSON G. SMITH, Ohio 
HY the reticence on the subject of the Hardy Chrysan¬ 
themum? Since no one else champions the flower of 
autumn haze and early snows, 1 am moved to perform 
that pleasant duty myself. To me, the Chrysanthe¬ 
mum is one of the most satisfactory flowers that grows. Thriv¬ 
ing in sun or shade, it picks up the floral crown that summer 
drops and flaunts it in the face of winter. Often I’ve brought 
in an armful of Chrysanthemums after two or three snowfalls, 
and even if the plants do not all of them come through the winter 
alive, one has had enough pleasure in their blossoming to more 
than cover their initial cost. 
Riding about the country one seldom sees other than the old- 
fashioned red, white, pink and yellow Chrysanthemums, the 
stand-by kinds of our grandmother’s day, and in memory of one 
of these earlier gardens I made a collection of the old-timers. 
Then, in a seed catalogue 1 discovered that one might grow im¬ 
proved kinds, Japanese hybrids and others. From the sowing of 
seed then purchased, I grew plants that produced flowers whose 
