CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 10

CHRYSANTHEMUMS

FIXING, A ''SPORT'

j, iKew.-chrysanthemums are sometimes

i ■•■Vie. result of a'eport from an established "Variety. A "sport" is a flower of a ■^ different r "colour from the parent, ;, but is usually of the same type and ■ habit? They are frequently of a stronjj-

Eiv constitution than the plant from wKieh they originate.' For the benefit q£ the inexperienced I will briefly describe how such a "sport" may be "fixjpd.v . ■.'■ ■•.■■■.: ■~ ': . : The stem bearing the new flower as fhown at (a) in the sketch, is carefully retained, and all other stems, (b) are «ut off, also, any stem br root cuttings formed below that point, as shown at v(c),.are discarded. If these wevp rooted lh& resultant flowers would be similar to the original ones in colour. The pot (d) is placed on a greenhouse bench '(c), also the whole length of the stem :t& shown, and fine gritty soil placed over it to a depth of one inch so that fill joints are covered with it, as shown at (if). The desired young shoots grow jrp from the axils of leaf and stem #.s shown, at (g); the stumps of the pther stems which were cut away being Shown at (gh). When the new shoots »r& two or three inches long, cut off the old leaf (i), and the stem, (j). The Jew plant is shown at. (k); it is grown 1 the usual way and will bear the new ;folour ihe same as the sport on the parent plant. '.-..". If the pUnt i? growing in the open •round it may either be potted up or 'transferred into a cut-do\vn kerosene tin *m 4. treated as above, or the old •lump jnay be T h v i6:Je4 p.ter where jt is jtnd treated likewise.