Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-10-30
CHRYSANTHEMUM GROWING.
Some Timely Sugge stions for the Home
Window Garden.

Some Timely Sugge stions for the Home
Window Garden.
The hardy or outdoor chrysanthemums
do not appeal to everybody. Still less do
the oldfushioned buttons. or Chinese
varieties, with flowers only half an inch
across. For most people these are too
easy" On the other hand, 1t is
inpracticable to raise huge exhibition
flowers in the home-window and even IL
we could. it would not be worth the while.
chrysanthemum eight inches or q foot
across is TO much like cabbage. AS rule,
Japanese chrysanthemum Is at Its best
when its flowers measures six inches
across is too much like cabbage. AS a rule,
optimuin, such distinct types as Iora and
Good Gracious tend to loose their char
acter. They might as well be any other
variety of the same color, because their
individuality vanishes. A five-inch
flower is a good ideal for the amateur
when he desires a few single-stemmed
plants But for solid satisfaction there
is nothing like group Of bushy little
plants in six-inch pots, each plant having
ten or Il dozen flowers averaging
four inches in diameter How they bright
en- the dining room on dark November
days, and what a CHEEKY message they
fling to the friendly passer-by !
Now Is the best time in the year to
select the varieties. Nobody's judgment
In such matter is as good as yours. You
NhOW Wlldt COiOTS you llke-Wndt sizes and
shapes Remember that eleven blank
months devoid of chrysanthemums arc
coming, and do not trust to others to
prescribe for you. Look about for some
or the less common types, the single forms
-Mizpah for instance-which make
charming pot plants, covered with a hun
dred or more dasy-like flowers in various
colors. Try some of the three anemone
types the pompon-anemone large flower
ed and Japanese-their high centers ara
always quaint and full of interest. The
large Chinese and the japanese incurved
sections, with their compact globular BIOS
sons, are rather tame for the window
garden compared with the wonderful and
irregular forms which one hnds in the
Japanese section. like one or two in the
poodle dog style myself, with some
OF the cold slaw." and a few of tn, law
less types affected by the foot ball de-
votees
Buy these plants now, If you like. and
enjoy theme while they last. Or, If your
purse be meager make up your list of var
ieties and give your order now for young
plants to be deliv cred by your local for
list next May or June in three-inch pots,
at a cost of ten or fifteen cents each. If
YOU keep some plants over the winter put
them in the cellar and keep them moder-
dtely dry. This is their resting time:
therefore, do not water them too much.
but. OIL the other hand, do not let them
get dust-dry." In the spring, when these
plants start into lively growth. you can
propagate them freely by taking slips"
II Will hardly be worth while to set
out the Old plants in the garden. The cut
tinSs will give you better bloom, as a rule.
Any one can raise good chrysanthemum
plants from cuttings at home. Chrysan-
themum cuttings are almost as easy to
strike as 8eraniums. However. you would
better use clean sand instead of soil.
in two-inch pots; later shift them to
tnrccs and then to fours. For the best
+, suits two more shifts are desirable
You will probably get better results by
keeping the plants in pots all the time.
instead of letting them grow freely in the
garden.-Country Life in America.
MARK TWAlN'S FIRST MEETING
WITH KING EDWARD.
good story is being told just now con-
corning King Edward and Mark Twain.
Once, while residing in England so the
story goes, Mark was subjected to tax,
with regard to which he wrote a friendly
letter of protest to Queen Victoria.
II don't know YOU" he wrote, with
genial audac!ty, but I've met your son.
lie was at the head of procession in the
Strand, and ] was on bus"
Years afterwards Mark Twain met tho
then Prince of Wales at Homburg, and
they had a long walk and talk together.
When bidding him goodbye, the prince
said: II am glad to have met you again"
"A remark which troubled the humorSt,
who feared he had been mistaken for some
one else, He communicated his suspicion
to the Prince, who replied:
why, don't you remember, when you
met me in the Strand, and | was at the
head of procession, and you were on u
'bus?'