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annually, toTje drawn yountr for salads, I Eclipse ; Gem; Nobilis ; Perfficta ; 



Queen Victoria; Rival King; Royal 

 Blue; Sspphire ; Splendida ; Water- 

 housiana ; and Webberiana. 



Characteristics of Excellence. — The 

 cineraria does not exhibit so much im- 

 provement as most florists' (lowers. 



" The petals should be thick, broad, 

 blunt, and smooth at the ends, closely 

 set, and form a circle without much 

 indentation. The centre, or yellow- 

 disk, should be less than one-third of 

 the diameter of the whole flower; in 

 other words, the coloured circle formed 



&c. On account of its strong taste, it 

 is greatly inferior to the common onion 

 for this purpose ; but from its extreme 

 hardness in withstanding the severest 

 frost, it may be cultivated with advan- 

 tage as a winter-standing crop for spring 

 use. 



Varieties. — Two varieties are in cul- 

 tivation, the white and the red; the 

 first of which is in general use. 



Cultivation. — As it may be sown at 

 all times with the onion, and is simi- 

 larly cultivated, except that it may be 



sown thicker, and only thinned as by the petals should be wider all round 

 wanted, the direction given for that than the disk measures across. The 

 vegetable will suffice. The blade usu- colour should be brilliant, whether 

 ally dies away completely in winter, but shaded or self; or if it be a white it 

 fresh ones are thrown out again in Feb- j should be very pure. 



ruary or March. 



To obtain Seed. — To obtain seed 



The trusses of flower should be 

 large and close, and even on the sur- 



some of the roots must be planted out face, the individual flowers standing 

 in March, six or eight inches asunder. | together with their edges touching each 

 The first autumn they will produce but other, however numerous thev may be. 

 little seed; in the second and third, ' The plant should be dwarf. The stems 



however, it will be produced abundant- 

 ly. If care is taken to part and trans- 

 plant the roots every two or three years, 

 they may be multiplied, and will re- 

 main productive for many years, and 

 afibrd much better seed than that from 

 one-year-old roots. 



Scallions. — There is good reason for 

 concluding that by a confusion of names, 

 arising from similarity of appearance, 



strong, and not longer than the width 

 across the foliage ; in other words, 

 from the upper surface of the truss of 

 the flower to the leaves where the 

 stem starts from should not be a greater 

 distance than from one side of the foli- 

 age to the other." — Hort. Mag. 



Propagation hy Seed. — " Sow in May 

 in the open border; thin out the plants 

 where they are crowded, and transplant 



this vegetable is the true scallion, whilst | them when they have three good leaves, 

 the hollow leek of Wales is the true I and pot them to remain in October." — 

 Welsh onion ; for the description of; Card. Chron. 



scallion, as given by Miller, accords I Propagation by Cuttings. — "After 

 exactly with that of the Welsh onion, the bloom has perfected itself and de- 

 At present all onions that have refused j caved, cut down the stems, stir the 

 to bulb, and formed lengthened necks j earth upon the surface, then earth up 

 and strong blades in spring and sum- i with fresh compost, filling the pot 



mer, are called scallions. 



CICCA disticha. 

 fruit tree. Leafy 

 loam. 



CIMICIFUGA. Four species. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennials. Division. Seeds. 

 Common soil. 



CINCHONA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen tree and shrub. Ripe cut- 

 tings. Loam and peat. 



CINERARIA. Fifty-four species. 

 ChieHy hardy and green-house herba- 

 ceous ; but some green-house ever- 

 green shrubs. It is a genus of florists' 



rather full than otherwise ; refresh the 



Stove evergreen | plants with a little water, and place 



cuttings. Sandy i them in the frame again ; or if you have 



none convenient, in a dry and sheltered 



place in the garden. 



" The growth of a few weeks will 

 enable you to detect side shoots, some 

 with roots, and some without roots, and 

 leave only the main plant in the pot, 

 which should be earthed up again, and 

 set by. The shoots which have no 

 roots to them should be stripped of two 

 or three of the bottom leaves, that they 



ay be placed in a pot of the usual sort 



flowers, and the varieties which they of compost that the plant may have 

 have raised are very numerous. A been growing in, with a little sand at 

 good selection is the following: — [ top, say a quarter of an inch thick, and 



