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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
CINERARIA,. 
James Salter. Lilac. 
Madame C. Andiguier. Rosy lilac. 
Madame Godillot. Brownish red. 
Madame B. Rendatler. Yellow, shaded 
rose. 
Mademoiselle Anna Delauz. 
white, tinted rose. 
Meg Merrilies. Sulphur white. 
' Rob Roy. Reddish purple and amber. 
Wizard. Reddish maroon. 
EARLY FLOWERING POMPONES. 
Milky 
Bois Duval (syn.: Scarlet Gem). 
Maroon red. 
Chrome Stella. Yellow. 
Lilac rose. 
Reddish crimson and gold. 
Madame Domage. Golden 
Early Casse. 
Fred Pelé. 
Golden 
yellow. 
Hendersonii. Yellow. 
Illustration. Light pink and orange. 
Le Luxemburg. Bronze yellow. 
Madame LDesgrange. White, 
yellow. 
Nanum. Blush. 
St. Croutts. White, pink tipped. 
St. Mary. White. 
Insects. —Aphides are often trouble- 
some, and as soon as the plants are found 
to be affected they should be fumigated, or 
dipped in tobacco water. The leaves are 
also sometimes attacked by a grub which 
affects them in the same way as the larva 
of the celery fly, getting between the upper 
and lower cuticles of the leaves ; directly 
this pest is seen it must be crushed with 
the fingers or it quickly spoils the plants. 
If mildew is troublesome dust with flowers 
of sulphur. 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUTESCENS. 
These, the Marguerites of the French 
flower markets, are pretty free-blooming 
plants. Their. flowers are well adapted for 
various purposes in a cut state, and the 
plants are equally so for the decoration of 
ereenhouses. Their propagation and after 
growth is of the easiest possible description ; 
cuttings made of the points of the soft 
young shoots will strike at any time of the 
year in a week or two in warmth ; if put 
in about the end of February in sand, 
and kept close and moist in a temperature 
of 60° they will strike in ten days. As soon 
as they are well rooted move singly into 
3-inch pots, pinch out the points of the 
shoots, and keep them in a temperature 
similar to that in which they were struck ; 
give air according to the state of the 
weather, with a little shade when the sun 
becomes powerful. In a month or six 
weeks they will need more room. They 
will flower in 6 or 7 inch pots if required, 
or, if larger specimens are wanted, they 
may be at once put in 8 or 9 inch pots ; if 
to be grown large, the shoots should again 
be stopped. By midsummer they will have 
grown to a handsome size, and will keep 
on blooming continuously all on through 
the autumn and winter if kept in a tem- 
perature of about 45° or 50°. They will 
grow in any kind of soil, peat, or loam, 
with some rotten manure and sand added. 
They do well struck in spring, planted 
out in the open ground about the end of 
May, and lifted and potted towards the 
beginning of September ; so treated fine 
specimens for winter blooming can be de- 
pended on. 
There are many forms of both the white 
and the yellow varieties, nothing more 
than differences in the seedlings. It is. 
best to get a free-flowering, compact- 
habited variety of each colour, and propa- 
gate successional stock each year to take 
the place of the old ones to be discarded 
after flowering. 
Insects.—Aphides are the only insects 
that affect these plants so as to give much 
trouble ; for these fumigate. 
CIBOTIUM. 
A magnificent genus of Ferns, most of 
which are Tree species that will thrive in 
a greenhouse temperature, but are better 
with the atmosphere kept a little closer 
and more humid during the growing 
season than that of a greenhouse. C. 
Barometz has creeping stems, and if planted 
out will cover a large space with its stately 
fronds, the texture of which is such that 
they will last in good condition for a very 
long time; few Ferns will keep fresh so 
long in water when cut. It comes from 
China. 
For propagation and cultivation, see 
Ferns, general details of culture. 
GREENHOUSE SPECIES. 
C. Barometz. China. 
C. pruinatum. Sandwich Islands. 
C. regale. Mexico. 
C. Schiedet. Mexico. 
C. spectabile. Mexico. 
CINERARIA. 
In times past the raising of new varieties 
of this useful greenhouse plant was con- 
fined to a few individuals, and propagation 
by suckers was the usual course adopted by 
the generality of cultivators. But in 
recent years so much improvement has 
been made in Cinerarias, that they may be 
had good enough for all purposes from seed 
