PLANTS FOR AUTUMN, WINTER, AND EARLY SPRING. 303 
The plants must be placed in a light situation, watered daily, or once 
in two days, though not very abundantly, and suffered gradualiy to 
wither about two months after the flowers fade. We commend the 
adoption of such receptacles to all who feel an interest in watching 
vegetable developments, or who seek to banish the idea of winter, and’ 
anticipate the charms of spring. 
PLANTS FOR AUTUMN, WINTER, AND EARLY SPRING 
ORNAMENT. 
Tuts class of flowering plants are peculiarly valuable: I need not 
therefore apologize for soliciting the insertion of any remarks for their 
successful cultivation, and therefore first remark upon the CINERARIA. 
I well remember when, about forty years ago, for the first time I 
bloomed the Cineraria lanata, and subsequently the C. amelloides, how 
much I was delighted with them. Successive periods, however, and 
more especially during the last ten years, an increasingly beautiful 
race has been raised, and now there is not an equal for winter and 
spring ornament for the greenhouse and airy sitting-room. They are 
easy of cultivation, and always profuse bloomers ; also of almost every 
shade of colour: and an additional advantage exists in their cheap- 
ness. 
- To grow them successfully, as soon as the plants have ceased bloom- 
ing, and the season admits, say in May or early in June, turn them out 
of the pots into a compost of loam and leaf mould, equal portions. 
This bed should be at the north side of a low hedge, &c.; attention 
will be necessary as to duly watering them, &c. Such plants as are 
required for blooming early should be taken off in August by careful 
division, be potted singly in equal parts of leaf-mould, peat, and loam, 
having the ‘pots well drained. Successive pottings should be made up 
to the middle of October, ‘and after potting having them kept in 
cool frames, &c., and being taken into a gentle forcing-house, green- 
house, sitting-room, &e. By judicious attention a succession of bloom 
may readily be had from October to July. and, if desirable, through 
every day in the year. They require but little attention, and are’ 
easily increased. Much attention has been given to obtain flowers of 
an improved form, and each successive season displays a marked im- 
provement. Many of them, too, are fragrant. They deserve to be in 
eyery collection of in-door plants. 
PRIMULA SINENSIS; CHINESE Primrosre.—There are now several 
varieties added to the original species, both single and double kinds. 
All are beautiful; those with fringed edges are peculiarly interesting. 
These, too, by a proper successive propagation, may be had in bloom 
all the year; but they are more valuable for autumn, winter, and 
spring. For plants to bloom well in autumn, sow seed in pots in 
March; place it in slight heat; pot them off singly into large sixties, 
when strong enough, into a compost of leaf-mould and loam, equal 
parts; place them in a frame having a north aspect, or otherwise 
shaded by a low hedge, &c,, and the pots to be plunged in coal-ashes, 
