PIPER’S CASCADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
CULTURAL NOTES 
The Cascade Chrysanthemums are becoming the favored queen of Autumn 
flowers. A few words on the culture of these beautiful flowers, which may be 
obtained from seeds in the following mixture: bronze, yellow, white, orange, 
crimson and red. 
It is very easily grown, and makes a wonderful subject for cutting and pot 
work, either as a bushplant or, as the name suggests, for decorating, falling as it 
does in cascades of beautiful flowers. 
In preparing the soil for seeds, which should be sown in February or March, 
equal parts of garden soil, leafmold, and sharp sand makes an admirable mixture. 
It is sufficiently porous, so that the seedlings will grow freely. 
Fill pans or pots within three-quarters of an inch of the top, using broken 
crocks or ashes to insure correct drainage, sifting the soil to make an even sur¬ 
face for sowing the seed. Water the receptacles, and allow to stand for one day, 
then sow the seeds and cover lightly. 
When seedlings show the fourth leaf, prick out into small pots, using any 
good fresh soil, the following mixture preferable: one part loam, one-quarter part 
rotted manure, one-sixteenth part sand. As plants continue to grow, increase 
the size of the pots, and also add to the above mixture one-fiftieth part of 
bone meal. 
To obtain upright specimen pot plants, the young plants (when about four 
inches tall) should be pinched back until the second week in July, to furnish a 
well-shaped plant. 
For the cascade specimens, the young plants must be kept tied down to a 
stick placed in the pot at an angle of 45 degrees, and the point of the stick to 
point to the North until the middle of August. All laterals are kept pinched back, 
and when the buds are perfectly formed the stick is removed and the plant allowed 
to hang over the side of the pot. After this time the growths are faced to the 
South. This will insure a perfect raceme of flowers. 
JAPANESE MOUNTAIN 
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CASCADE VARIETIES 
Rooted cuttings in the following colors:— 
WHITE — PINK — YELLOW — BRONZE — RED 
$3.00 PER DOZEN 
$15.00 per 100. Seeds of the above, per packet, 50c 
S T O N 
NEW JERSEY 
