HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1909 
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get pot-bound, that is until the roots 
are crowded in the pot, the plant is 
apt to get a check. 
When the weather is suitable, 
around the early part of May, put 
your plants outside in cold frames, 
where they can be protected with 
sash placed over the beds. Water 
them regularly and give them plenty 
of air during the middle of the day. 
Don’t suffocate them. The plants 
want plenty of water and air. 
Chrysanthemums will raise up a 
nice stock of pests if not watched. 
To prevent this, syringe the plants 
often, and also place tobacco stems 
on the pots. Or spray with tobacco 
water. The fumes from the tobacco 
will have a restraining influence on 
the pests. If they get ahead of you, 
give them a dose of whale oil soap. 
Use about a pound of the soap to ten 
or twelve gallons of water. This soap 
is not very nicely perfumed, but it 
is wonderfully effective. When mak¬ 
ing your purchase get it in packages 
already cut up; it is called chipped 
soap. This will save you considerable labor and much handling. 
You can plunge "your plants out in the ground in pots, 
or you can put them right in the ground out of pots. The first 
way is the best. They should be put in pots that will allow 
them to grow and make root and it may even be necessary to 
give them a couple of shifts before the fall. Keep them well 
watered and syringe often. Along towards the latter part of 
July give them a feeding with liquid manure. You can make 
this by putting about a bushel of cow manure in a large 
barrel of water. Put the manure in a bag and let it soak for a 
few days. When using this, dilute about 
half with water and give about three 
times a week. This will work wonders 
with the plants and help to make good 
specimens. Don’t give it oftener than 
three times a week. Once in a while a 
little nitrate of soda might be given with 
good results. Use about one ounce to 
four or five gallons of water. It must 
not be thought that if a little soda is 
good a lot is proportionately better. 
This is not so. Stick to the proportions 
given above and the results will be good. 
Give this about once or twice a week, 
at the most. 
If all the buds that form are allowed 
to mature they will be small, but if num¬ 
bers are taken off those that remain 
will be much larger and more sightly. 
Therefore it is a good idea to disbud so 
as to get larger flowers. With the regu¬ 
lar greenhouse men this is a work that 
requires considerable skill, for on it de¬ 
pends the success of the flowers. For 
ordinary house use the simple operation 
of removing some of the buds will be 
instruction enough. 
If your plants have grown straggly 
it may be necessary to stake them. The 
best way for small plants is to use wire. 
Under ordinary cultivation, without excessive dis 
budding you will get more of these medium 
sized blooms 
This will answer well enough to keep 
the plants in the shape you want so as 
to let the flower develop well. Very 
large plants will require something 
more substantial, such as bamboo. 
Now would be a good time to get 
a stock of plants to build upon next 
spring. In the fall it is an inexpen¬ 
sive operation to gather a lot of 
plants, either that have been given 
you or to your friends. Most people 
throw the plants out just as soon as 
they have finished flowering and here 
is a person’s chance. These old 
plants can be easily carried through 
the winter and will give hundreds of 
cuttings in the spring. Take the old 
plants and winter them in a cool 
place where you can keep them just 
alive. A little frost will not injure 
them. A cold frame that is deep is a 
good place to put these. In the spring 
when stock is wanted these old plants 
can be taken out and started and 
each one will give dozens of plants. 
These, handled as suggested above, will 
give you a lot of respectable looking 
chrysanthemums. There are many types of chrysanthemums, 
and the literature on the subject is already enormous. In 
general the large-flowered forms are more popular than the 
small-flowered ones, especially at exhibitions. The Incurved, 
Japanese Incurved, and the Japanese types are the most 
important in this country. The flowers of the Incurved and 
Japanese Incurved types are likely to be more compact and 
hence better for long shipments. These and the Japanese types 
are the ones most commonly grown by the florists for cut 
flowers. Anemone-flowered forms are considered as curiosities. 
How much more satisfactory it is for the amateur who wants flowers for decoration, to grow a pro¬ 
fusion of bloom rather than one gigantic flower to each plant 
