LIST AND CULTURE OF CINERARIAS. 3*7 



Queen tall, light, and pink. 



Floribunda tall, light. 



Waterhouseana large, bluish purple. 



Atro Csruleus ( Smith's) deep blue purple. 



Fanny Tripet "j 



Fandago I new seedlings seut out last spring by 



Lilacina j Messrs. Henderson. 



Grandissima (Henderson's blue) J 



Boyceii very good, crimson, and light eye. 



Tussilaginus not worth growing. 



Relative to the height of the kinds, and the habit of each, &c, it 

 depends, Mr. Smith states, principally on the mode of culture prac- 

 tised ; but he observed that if the kinds not marked tall or dwarf are 

 well grown, and have plenty of pot room, they will make large bushy 

 plants, growing from one foot to half a yard high ; those marked tall, 

 to two or two and a half feet ; and those marked dwarf, from six to 

 nine inches. The varieties, Mr. Smith further observes, have been 

 selected from several fine collections, including his extensive stock of 

 seedlings. 



No tribe of plants is more easy of cultivation than the Cineraria ; 

 and by due attention it will most amply repay it. By the following 

 mode of treatment plants may be obtained in 'great vigour, and 

 scarcely appear to belong to the same genus when contrasted with 

 the too general meagre ones to be seen. 



About the middle of May, I separate offsets from the parent plant, 

 potting them into sixty-sized pots, in a compost of equal portions of 

 loam and sandy peat, and place them in a frame where there is a 

 gentle bottom heat. When offsets (which are always to be preferred) 

 cannot be obtained, I take off cuttings, cutting them off clean to 

 their origin, or close under a joint, and strike them in sandy peat. 

 As soon as they are rooted, I pot them in the same manner as is 

 done with offsets. 



When the young plants are fairly established, I remove them into 

 a cool frame, and in a short time after expose them to the open air. 

 As the pots fill with roots, they are successively repotted, in a com- 

 post of equal parts of good loam, sandy peat, and well rotted hot-bed 

 dung. I give them due attention to watering daily, and once a week 

 water with liquid manure, avoiding it being poured upon the foliage, 

 or it would turn it brown : this greatly contributes to their vigour. 

 About the middle of September I place them in a cold frame or in a 

 cool greenhouse, putting them as near to the glass ns possible, — the 



