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For Begonias with ornamental leaves see Miscellaneous Fo- 
liage-plants. 
Soil for Begonias should be light and fibrous, of equal parts 
fibrous loam and leaf mould and a liberal addition of sharp 
sand. Pots must be well drained. 
Calceolarias are of two kinds, herbaceous and shrubby. 
Calceolaria hybrida is the common large flowered kind, 
grown in greenhouses, and remarkable for their curiously, 
often brilliantly colored flowers of a mottled, speckled, or 
one-colored tint. 
‘These are raised from seeds sown in summer on the surface 
of the soil in well-drained pots, as recommended for Bego- 
nias. Must be kept moist until growing by means of shading. 
Keep the seed-pots in a rather cool 
place, re-prick as usual, gradually in 
single pots, and re-pot until in 6-inch 
pots, in which the plants can be win- 
tered in a cool, light place. They 
bloom in summer and need careful 
watering, and must be kept free from 
greenflies. Soil as for Begonias, with 
the addition of a little well-rotted 
manure. 
The shrubby Calceolarias are most- 
ly used for out-door bedding, but are 
rather pretty in pots. They grow 
taller, more bushy, and are more 
floriferous than the herbaceous kinds, 
Cinerarta, cruenta variety. 
but less varied in color, which is mostly yellow or brown. 
Cinerarias are pretty annuals of a very varied range of 
vivid coloring. There are double varieties, which are less 
