Decorah-posten., 1898-09-09
Treatment of
CHI ysanthemums.

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beautiful as any that the florist
Rows If she will give as much
(care TO their culture. The plants
should have been grown in pots
bunk in the ground during the
elmmer TO insure complete sue
Tess, but much may be dore dur
nc the asst of August and the
Ers, OF September to bring the
eants into perfect bloom. If they
We been growing in the ground
rich soil they will be very large
d hard to manage.
The evening before they are
be lifted soak the ground
koroughly till the soil is wet 10
k tip OF the small roots. Few
fter their plants enough when
Iey undertake hand watering and
come disguised and vote water
z a failure. If they would dig
ktle trenches around and among
e flowers or make holes a foot
P-ep and three inches in diameter
Smong them and then hll trenches,
1 r holes, with wates several times,
he water would seep through and
loisten the earth ali through, and
hey would fad that the flowers
louid grow quite well without
|ain.
Having made the soil around
|he chrysantncmums thoroughly
kvet the previous evening, IN the
kmorning, before the sun becomes
hot, It'll the POINTS, beng careful.
10 disturb the roots very little;
IS sure as the roots are greatly
disturbed the leaves viii tail off.
che plan; not only present ar un-
slightly appearance, but deprived
a large part of its lung power
Mil become weakened and snow
il in smaller or one-side blossoms.
! he leaves OF a plant are its lungs,
and II can no more i've a healthy
(fe and perfect it blossoms with
Ut leaves than human beings can
live without lungs.
Pot the plants in dishes large
enough to avoid crowdlng the
roots; set thew in a cool cellar or
on the north side of a building
,or a few days; bring them gradu-
Pilly into full sunshine. AS long
es they are safe from frost set
them on a porch or in some
partially shaded place. If the
plants have been grown in pots it
as better to repot them into larger
pots or at least renew the top of
the soil; dig out all earth possible
] without disturbing the roots, and
replace with fresh, rich soil; re-
that they are heavy
feeders and like a heavy soil.
When grown in pots, there will be
no check to their growth on re-
moving TO the porch.
Frost or cold winds must be
carefully guarded against, for a
slight chill, so slight that the
leaves do not show il at all, will
u the 40 sers to open one
sidedly or become Uniformed in
some way. MOI should the plants
be brought into a dry warm room;
il they are, the centers of the
flowers will dry UP and many Of
the buds blight, also it will be
impossible to keep them free from
apaIs. The kitchen. if it have
summer windows, as all kitchens
should, is an excellent place to
keep chrysanthemums when il be-
comes necessasy to bring them
into the house.
Until the flowers open aphis
may be kept down by spraying
them with Kerosene emulsion, but
after the flowers open tobacco
smoke IS the only remedy, as
water spoils the open flower. After
the buds form the plants need
watering, with good fertilizers,
once or twice a week. One
OF the best fertilizers is
droppings from the poultry house;
put the fertilizer in a coarse mus
I'm bag and pour on boiling water;
should the liquid be darker than
very weak tea, reduce with clear
water. Water the p ants with this
liquid fertil ger twice a week;
should the fertilizer be to strong
ii will burn the roots of the plants.
A bagful of droppings will last for
several waterings. This is an
excellent fertilizer for all house
plants if applied with care.
After all the trials and back
aching work have been gone
through with. then comes the
hardest part Of all, pinching out
some of the buds. disbudding, the
professionals say. But if one
wishes for seally inc flowers il
must be done. SO summon up all
your courage and remove some of
the smaller buds from each branch.
When the plants are through
blooming, the next problem is
how 10 keep them for next years
bloom. The old varieties live
utiiully IN any ordinary cellar,
the newer and more desirable
; are more uncertain. Some
; they live through in the
Ar, but more often they don't.
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