. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. NOTES ON WINDOW PLANTS RENEWING A GERANIUM-HOW TO WINTER A CHRYSANTHEMUM—ROOT DIVISIONS-POT- TING — WATERING — EXCELLENT POINTERS BY WM. HUNT, SUPT. GRb-RNHOUSES, O. A. C, GUELPH, Fig. 2528. Geranium "White Swan " rkclaimed by Proper Treatment. IN THE July number of Horticulturist two cuts are shown of a geranium plant that had become gaunt and unsightly looking from having been grown indoors for a long time. The cuts mentioned gave an illustra- tion of the plant before and after the cutting ba
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. NOTES ON WINDOW PLANTS RENEWING A GERANIUM-HOW TO WINTER A CHRYSANTHEMUM—ROOT DIVISIONS-POT- TING — WATERING — EXCELLENT POINTERS BY WM. HUNT, SUPT. GRb-RNHOUSES, O. A. C, GUELPH, Fig. 2528. Geranium "White Swan " rkclaimed by Proper Treatment. IN THE July number of Horticulturist two cuts are shown of a geranium plant that had become gaunt and unsightly looking from having been grown indoors for a long time. The cuts mentioned gave an illustra- tion of the plant before and after the cutting back process. The accompanying cut (Fig. 2528), from a photo, shows the same plant as it appeared early in November after having been grown in summer as recommended in above mem- tioned number of this journal. Although the variety shown (The White Swan) is not one of the best for winter flowering pur- poses, it serves to illustrate what can be done—by only ordinary treatment—to re- claim an old unsightly looking geranium plant, and make it a nice bushy plant for the window in winter. This plant was grown outside in the open without the as- sistance of a greenhouse or sash, and with- out any special skill being bestowed on its culture. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Some readers of the journal may, perhaps, have a chrysanthemum plant in their posses- sion that has done flowering, and although anxious to keep it over for another season, or grow some young plants from it, scarcely know how to proceed so as to carry it safely through the winter. I must first of all, however, say that from a commercial or professional point of view, I do not consider it worth the trouble and risk to attempt to keep over old chrysanthe- mum plants for flowering purposes the fol- lowing season. At the same time amateur flower lovers do not always make as close an estimate on returns for labor expended as commercial florists have of necessity to do in connection with plant culture. Taking the latter fact into
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