QUALITY CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANTS 
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RESTRICTION OF LATERAL GROWTH—A plant, when allowed to retain no more 
than one, two or three stems, will develop much larger blooms than it will if permitted 
to grow without restriction. This is especially true of the large flowering types—exhibi¬ 
tions, commercials, spidery sorts and some of the larger anemones. 
When the plant's energy, governed as It is by the amount of needed elements it assimi¬ 
lates from the soil. Is used in feeding a profusion of growth, we cannot well hope to 
obtain maximum results as regards size, color or shape of bloom. 
Excellent results may be had by raising four, six or eight disbudded blooms on plants 
of the larger pompon, anemone and single types suitable for the purpose, the number 
to be chosen varying with the type and variety of plant. 
BUD SELECTION—Early in August many varieties produce a cluster of buds, the cen¬ 
tral and larger of which is termed the early or crown and the encircling buds vegetative. 
For exhibition types and many of the large commercials, it is desirable to "take" the 
crown bud. 
While the term "take the bud" may be enshrouded in ambiguity, it simply involves 
the mechanics of removing the buds not to be used and reserving the one chosen as the 
best for development. Therefore, if you wish to "take" the crown bud, you remove the 
encircling buds and reserve the one in the center. 
If it is desirable to use what is commonly known as the terminal bud, the foregoing 
operation is reversed. The central or crown bud and all but one of the encircling or 
vegetative buds are removed. From the remaining bud will spring a vegetative growth that 
will in time produce another cluster of buds, the central one of which should be "taken" 
or reserved and all others removed. 
All crown buds, excepting those from plants of an extremely early blooming habit, 
appearing in the months of May, June and July, should be removed along with all excess 
lateral growth. It is also necessary to keep all axilary and basal growth broken out. 
The plant should be given a thorough going over at frequent intervals in order to keep 
it free from all superfluous growth, thus insuring a minimum waste of plant energy. 
SPRAYING—The chrysanthemum is not immune to damage frequently caused by the 
uncontrolled activities of a variety of common insect pests; neither is it secure against the 
inroads of malignant fungi that may find in it a beneficent host unless preventative meas¬ 
ures are taken. It Is therefore wise and prudent to start spraying early, continuing at fre¬ 
quent intervals with the thought in mind that, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure." 
INDEX 
Pages 
Feather, Spidery and Threadlike Varieties. 3- 4 
Large Flowering Exhibition Varieties. 5- 6 
Large Flowering Commercial Varieties. 7-13 
Pompon Section. 13-20 
" " Button Type. 13 
" " Intermediate Type. 14 
” Large Type Suitable for Disbudding.15-18-19-20 
Anemone Section . 21-23 
Single Varieties, Daisy Type. 24 
Hardy Korean Varieties. 25 
Hardy Varieties. 25 
Cascade Varieties. 26 
Cultural Suggestions, Cascades. 27-28 
Cultural Suggestions, General. 28 
