ON THE CULTURE OF Cl.VEKAIUAS. 5T 



When placed in the flower-pot, the plant does not project over the 

 side, so as to occupy more space, but forms a pretty and compact 

 pillar, presenting an equally ornamental surface on every side upon 

 which it is viewed. If the plant attain sufficient size to require ad- 

 ditional trellis-work, another trellis can be readily piled upon the 

 first, and secured to it by slender wire. Upon a trellis of this sort 

 I have trained a beautiful Kennedya, five feet high, and one mass of 

 bloom and foliage ; Clematis, Sieboldii, and Azurea grandiflora, are 

 other beautifully adapted climbers, and I need scarcely enumerate 

 Tropaeolum, Petunia, Rosa, &c, &c. I have a Polygala oppositi- 

 folia, and Scarlet Phlox Drummondii, which by frequent stopping 

 and close training, present a far different appearance to their usual 

 leggy and spindled form. 



Whilst the plants are young, or to secure a stray branch in the 

 right direction, I have made use of small rings of leaden wire, which 

 may be applied or removed at the will of tiie cultivator. A piece of 

 slender leaden wire (such as is now sold for gardening purposes in 

 every country town), is coiled spirally round a small stick ; and the 

 point of an old pen-knife carried through the wire from end to end. 

 When the wire is slipped down the stick, it will of course be found 

 divided into a number of small neat rings, which may be readily 

 opened and again closed to secure any stray branch to the trellis. 

 They will of course last for years, since they may be used over and 

 over again. I likewise make use of the rings to secure the calyxes 

 of pinks and carnations from bursting irregularly, which I find they 

 do, as well, or better, than strips of matting, &c. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE CULTURE OF CINERARIAS. 



BY THE KOISKM AN OF A LONDON NURSEin . 



Plants that will bloom through the entire of winter, and especially 

 in dwelling-room?, are always highly esteemed ; and of this class 

 none is more entitled to it than the Cineraria in its now numerous 

 varieties, which comprise almost every colour and shade of their very 

 lovely flowers. In the establishment under my charge, we have 

 eighty varieties, and, by due management, I have a profuse bloom 

 throughout the year ; especially, however, they bloom vigorous from 



