The custom of growing the bulk of plants we require for winter flowering, in the open ground during summer, is getting to be very common. It saves a great deal of summer labor in watering and caring for the plants, and, if they are properly lifted, make better plants, and are more satisfactory than plants wholly pot grown. It is not, however, every one who can lift a plant properly. The leaves should not be allowed to wilt for an instant, if possible, or they will fall; and, so far as Chrysanthemums are concerned, one of the beauties of a well grown Chrysanthemum is to have its leaves preserved healthily till the flowers are passed. Very little time should elapse before the plant is in the pot from the open ground. The earth should be beaten very firmly, and little by little as it goes in the pot, a thorough watering should be given, and, if one has a dark place to set the plants for a day or two all the better. "A day or two," however, means that and nothing more. Several days would cause the leaves to turn yellow and fall.