Cineraria — Colca. 1 1 7 



other plants in pleasure-grounds. May be treated as a 

 half-hardy annual. 



Cineraria maritima. — A very handsome bushy peren- 

 nial, with finely-cut leaves, covered on the under side 

 with a silvery clown. It bears numerous heads of bright 

 yellow flowers in summer. When the effect of its 

 foliage only is desired, the flowering-stems should be 

 pinched off on their first appearance. The plant then 

 becomes more leafy and more branching. Multiplied 

 easily by seeds. Useful on the margins of shrubberies, 

 or isolated on banks, or on the grass of the pleasure- 

 ground, where it would form an agreeable variety among 

 the Acanthuses and various other dark-green subjects 

 recommended for this purpose. 



Cineraria Acanthifolia is a fine variety of the pre- 

 ceding, and well worthy of cultivation. 



Cladium Mariscus. — This vigorous native fen-plant 

 grows from 2 ft. to 6 ft. high, and, when in flower, is 

 crowned with dense, close, chestnut-coloured panicles, 

 which are sometimes 3 ft. in length. The radical leaves 

 are glaucous, rigid, and often 4 ft. long. Worthy of a 

 place near such subjects as Car ex pcndula or the Typhas 

 on the margin of water. 



Colea Commersonii. — A shrub from Madagascar, 

 with very large opposite leaves, each consisting of pairs 

 of oval-obtuse leaflets. This has been used in the sub- 

 tropical garden at Battersea Park, but it is not likely to 

 be of any practical importance in our outdoor gardening. 

 Indeed it must be a very fine plant in this way which 

 would produce so good an effect as young plants of 

 Ailantus glandulosa. 



