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CULTURE OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Garden culture of Chrysanthemums 
can be about the last word in sim- 
plicity. The more important needs 
of Chrysanthemums are given here. 
Good average soil, such as required 
by any vegetable crop—well rotted 
barnyard manure, plus 20 per cent 
superphosphate, leafmold, or peat 
moss, supplemented by a well bal- 
anced chemical fertilizer. Soil should 
be prepared to a depth of 15 or 18 
inches, incorporating all fertilizers 
thoroughly. 
Planting should be done with care, 
watered well, and loose soil pulled 
around base of plant. 
Avoid old overgrown clumps. Heal- 
thy divisions or pieces taken from an 
old clump give best results. 
Do not overcrowd—18 inches apart 
or 18 inches from any other plent is 
close enough. 
To avoid lanky or spindly plant 
growth, pinch the plants once, when 
plants are six or eight inches high. 
Under no circumstances use chemi- 
cal fertilizers when the soil is dry. 
Liquid manure is safe at any time. 
Late August or early September a 
complete fertilizer such as Vigero or 
5-10-5 is in order. 
To grow large flowering Mums, 
keep all side shoots rubbed off and 
when buds form pinch out all the 
buds except the large terminal or 
crown bud; grow one to four blooms 
to a plant. 
The large Pompoms may be dis- 
budded; the blooms then form a love- 
ly large ball. 
To control leaf spot, spray with 
Bordeaux mixture, or dust or spray 
with dusting sulphur, or liver of sul- 
phur. Protexall is mighty good, and 
can be purchased from Vaughan’s, 
Chicago, Ill. 
Hardy Chrysanthemums can well 
be used as accent points in a mixed 
hardy flowering border. The tough 
varieties of hardy Mums are well 
adapted to planting in _ locations 
where many garden flowers will not 
do well. 
The cushion type and other dwarf 
sorts for use as low edging for taller 
growing plants or for the hardy bor- 
der. 
For smaller gardens, where space 
for solid masses of color is not avail- 
able dramatic effects can be obtained 
with groups of three to six plants at 
intervals in a long border. 
Planting groups of hardy Mums 
where shrubbery plantings or ever- 
greens will make a background. 
Along walls, the foliage makes an 
attractive ground cover until the 
plants come into full bloom. 
To form a line between vegetable 
plot and flower garden. 
It is no trick at all to transplant 
Chrysanthemums in full growth or 
showing color, to pots and window 
boxes, or to any part of the garden 
or grounds where earlier blooming 
flowers have left undesirable gaps in 
your planting scheme. They may be 
grown in your vegetable garden or 
some out of the way corner and then 
moved. 
By combining. dwarf, medium- 
height and tall growing varieties it 
is possible to get a sloping bank of 
color glory in the late garden. 
BOOK FOR SALE 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
How to Grow Them Out of Doors 
Written by experienced members of the Portland Chrysanthemum 
Society and other authorities. 
We have found it to be one of the best 
books on growing Chrysanthemums out of doors. 
The many contribu- 
tors to this book are all successful growers and by purchasing it and 
following instructions you will be able to be another successful Mum 
grower and blue ribbon winner. 
$1.50 POSTPAID 

