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mediate. Multiflorus x Heritieri was very tall and coarse—less interest- 
ing perhaps than other of the hybrids. Multiflorus x Tussilaginis was 
perhaps very nearly intermediate, but the fine features of the parents were 
quite destroyed. Coming now to hybrids or part hybrids in which the 
florists’ Cineraria took part, a few are worth mention. Heritieri x 
Cineraria is perhaps valuable in some of its colour forms. The flowers 
are large, brilliantly coloured, are produced over a long season, and the 
habit of the plant is much more graceful than that of the Cineraria. It 
is perfectly perennial, and favourite forms are easily increased by cuttings. 
Multiflorus x Cineraria was figured in the Garden, July 17, 1898, and is 
the cross known as Lynchi. It is decidedly ornamental, and has a good 
habit—less close than that of the Cineraria. The reverse cross Cineraria x 
multiflorus is comparatively a coarse plant. It had a curious tendency 
for some of the rays to be spotted. Twssilaginis x Cineraria and 
Tussilaginis var.? x Cineraria gave very handsome decorative plants ; 
but the flowers were large, and since the small-flowered hybrids of the 
Cineraria alone appear to meet the popular taste, I have thought them 
hardly worth space. One of the best crosses I have made, from a garden 
point of view, made before at Kew, however, is Cineraria x eruentus, which 
produced one of the finest specimens I have ever seen. The following is 
a list of nearly, if not all, the hybrids obtained, and it may be noted that 
here, and throughout this paper, the female parent is placed first :— 
cruentus x Tussilaginis. 
(cruentus x Heritieri) x Cineraria: 
Heritieri x cruentus. 
Heritieri x multiflorus. 
(Heritieri x multifiorus) x (multiflorus x Heritieri). 
Heritieri x Cineraria. 
(Heritieri x Cineraria) x Cineraria. 
(Heritieri x cruentus) x Cineraria. 
(Heritieri x Cineraria) x (multiflorus x Cineraria). 
multiflorus x cruentus. 
multiflorus x Heritieri. 
multiflorus x Tussilaginis. 
(multiflorus x cruentus) x (multiflorus x Heritieri). 
(multiflorus x cruentus) x Heritieri. 
multiflorus x Cineraria. 
(multiflorus x cruentus) x Cineraria. 
(multiflorus x Heritieri) x (Cineraria x cruentus). 
Tussilaginis x cruentus. 
Tussilaginis x Cineraria. . 
var.? x Cineraria. 
Cineraria x cruentus. 
Cineraria x multiflorus. 
(Cineraria x cruentus) x Cineraria. 
(Cineraria x cruentus) x (multiflorus x Heritieri). 
The Cineraria was strongly marked in all the above crosses in which 
it was used. 
The modern form of the florist’s Cineraria has not been approached 
so nearly as I am sure it yet will be, though without a better crwentus, 
