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TlIE CINliRARIA 



from tlie sun, they stood well. These two are very handsome, broad-leaved varieties. 



I'ujrus erecta and aurca — Uardy. 



Tuxus baccata, Hibemica, stricta, and pyramidalis — All hardy and beautiful. 



Toxus clegantissima — Hardy. The handsomest. 



7ViHi/a Jili/ormis — Hardy. A very handsome small weeping tree. Desirable. 



lltuya Wareana — Ilardy. 



Thuya articidata, Tarlarica, orientalis, and Siberica or plicata — All hardy and 

 desirable. 



Arbutus Unedo — Stands well. 



Buxus Monorca — A good deal browned. 



Andromeda fioribunda, Deutzia gracilis, and Garrya elliptica — All hardy and 

 handsome. 



Buddleya Lindleyana — Though protected from the sun, it was much injured. 



Buddleya globosa — Stood better. I think it will prove hardy. 



Acuba Japonica — Hardy. 



Magnolia grandifiora and prctcox — Quite hardy. 



THE CINERARIA. 



Tuis flower, iri its present improved condition, is indispensable in eveiy collection of 

 greenhouse plants. Its season of flowering, which is the winter and early spring 

 months, when there is a great scarcity of flowers and flowering plants, adds greatly to 

 its value. Beside, it is very easily grown and managed, and easily hybridized, and 

 therefore it recommends itself to amateurs who desire to stock their houses with such 

 plants as do not require very great skill to treat them successfully. Turner's Florist 

 for May gives a plate of four very beautiful new sorts, and accompanies it with the 

 following article, which we transfer to our pages : 



" "We have this month given an illustration of four beautiful new varieties of this 

 spring-flowering plant, and we feel assured they will become popular favorites. Mrs. 

 Trulove is a striking and distinct flower ; color, pure white ground, heavily tipped 

 with dense crimson-purple, with dark purple disk. It was raised by Mr. Ivert, Nur- 

 seryman, Peckham. Optima and Lady Mary Labouckere were both raised by Mr. 

 BousiE, gardener to the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Stoke Park, near Windsor. 

 The former is a large, well-formed flower, clear white ground, with a medium belting 

 of deep mazarine blue, small dark disk, and of excellent habit. The latter variety is a 

 most constant and beautiful flower ; clear white ground, with a narrow margin of deep 

 lavender-blue, and of excellent habit. Sir Charles Napier was raised by Mr. Chas. 

 Turner, of Slough, and is a striking variety, of dwarf habit, and a profuse bloomer ; 

 color intense dark blue and of good form. 



Sir Charles Napier, Mrs. Trulove, and Optima have been awarded Certificates of 



