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Cineraria continued. 



Double-flowered Cinerarias. These are similar in growth 

 to the single varieties, but have their flowers quite double, 

 like miniature rosettes. Seeds are not produced in any- 

 thing like the quantity obtained from single ones, and the 

 varieties cannot be depended upon to reproduce themselves 



Cineraria continued. 



flower purposes, this section will probably never supersede 

 the single- flowered one for beauty and general utility. 

 All Cinerarias are benefited by applications of manure 

 water, from the time the flower-heads are formed until 

 they open. 



true from seed. Neither will any more than a proportion C. 

 of double-flowered plants be guaranteed. This entails the 

 necessity of perpetuating any variety by cuttings, which 

 is, with many of them, a very slow process. Although 

 useful for buttonhole and other bouqneta, and for cut- 



cuneatei 

 Europe, 1683. Hardy herbaceous perennial 



,; 

 at the end. A. 2ft South and Eastern 



(orange-coloured).* Jl-headg orange, corymbose 



/., radical ones elliptic, repandly toothed; stem ones 



2 u 



