THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MAY 1st, 1846. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. EMBELLISHMENTS. 



MR. IVERY'S SEEDLING CINERARIAS. 

 1. Perfection. 2. Victoria Superb. 3. Conquekor. 



The Cineraria is fast becoming a popular flower, its gay and lively 

 appearance at an early period of the season rendering it peculiarly 

 useful for purposes of general decoration in the greenhouse ; to the 

 great improvement, however, which has recently been effected upon 

 its original rude and starry -shaped flowers, remarkable only for their 

 large daisy-like disk or eye, surrounded by a few narrow petals, may 

 we attribute its present elevation. 



The three seedling varieties, raised by Mr. Ivery of Peckham, and 

 represented in our plate, afford ample proof of the improvement we 

 speak of ; there yet, however, remains much to be done, especially in 

 the habit of the plant, which ought to be compact and dtvarf. This 

 is a point that must flrst be insisted on, because without uniformity in 

 the plant, all its beauty is destroyed. Other good properties are, the 

 trusses of bloom being large, close, and even on the surface, the in- 

 dividual flowers standing together so that their edges just touch each 

 other, however numerous they may be, and finally, as the most beau- 

 tiful of all forms in a flower that faces us, each separate bloom should 

 form as complete a circle as possible, its centre or disk be proportionate 

 to its size, that is, in all cases not more than one-third the diameter 

 of the whole, and if somewhat less, perhaps, the better, as this portion 

 of the flower is certainly the least interesting of any. We hope soon 



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