LTURAL POINTERS 

Ge liieal P otnters 
The cuttings you purchase are ready for potting or flatting, some growers even plant these rooted 
cuttings directly into the final location. Ordinarily they will not require shading, but if they have 
been several days in transit and have softened up some, or if they are planted during warm, bright 
weather shading with aster cloth or paper is advisable. Under no circumstances leave the covering 
on the plants during dull weather or at night. It is well to syringe the plants frequently until they 
stand up and are showing signs of growth. 
The Railway Express Agency has done a marvelous job during the past several years, but occasion- 
ally they have had delays. Chrysanthemum cuttings will be injured from cold as well as being too 
long in transit. If the cuttings are slightly wilted, they can be immersed in water for a short period 
and then planted. They will react perfectly to such treatment. If the cuttings have been slightly 
frozen, placing them in a cool room and thawing them out gradually, or placing them in a pail of cool 
water to take the frost out will bring them through so that they will do just as well as cuttings that 
have had nothing happen to them. Of course, if stock is badly frozen, or if long delays have occurred 
so that the cuttings are heated, yellow or rotted, a claim should be filed at once with the express 
company. 
CULTURED STOCK 
Through the development of science your chrysanthemum cuttings have all been grown from stock 
that has been cultured to determine the presence or absence of the fungus that causes Verticillium 
Wilt or more commonly referred to as Seidewitz Disease. The culturing of cuttings is to place bits 
of the stem of a cutting into the gelatine-like agar medium which is used for growing fungi. If the 
tissué is not infected, no growth of Verticillium develops. As each cutting is cultured it is placed in 
sterile propagating benches spaced six inches each way. After 10 days of incubating the agar plates 
one can determine if the wilt organism is present in the tissue. All the cuttings that show the pres- 
ence of Verticillium are discarded and only those that show a negative reading are saved and grown 
into stock plants. This clean stock must be grown under sterile conditions at all times as cuttings can 
be easily contaminated when planted into soil that has the Verticillium organism present. 
Verticillium wilt undoubtedly is the worst disease of the Chrysanthemum. If you obtain cuttings 
propagated from cultured stock and provided you grow your plants in clean soil this disease should 
not be of any trouble to you. 
General View of Propagating Houses Healthy Well Rooted Cuttings 

