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CINERARIA 



these flowers is required, two sowings of seed should 

 be made the first about the middle of August, and 

 the second a month later. The seed should be sown in 



CINNA 



name of C. stellata. They are very free flowering, and 

 as pot plants are more decorative than the large-flow- 

 ered types; they meet the present demand for simplicity. 



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pans or shallow boxes 1 foot square; these should be In color they have the same range as the ordinary flor- 

 well drained, and the soil should consist of one part ists' cinerarias: and there nr^ rnft.ii_flrrn 



well drained, and the soil should consist of one part 

 fine loam, one part leaf-mold, and one part clean sharp 

 silver sand. The surface should be made very fine 

 and pressed down evenly. The seed should then be 

 sown evenly and rather thinly, and covered with sand 

 about the eighth part of an inch. This will in a great 

 measure prevent the seedlings from what gardeners 

 term "damping off," which they are very apt to do if 

 the atmospheric conditions become at all stagnant. 

 The seed-pans or boxes should be carefully watered 

 with a fine rose and then placed in some cool shaded 

 place, such as a 

 frame placed on 

 sifted coal-ashes on 

 the north side of a 

 wall or building, 

 where they will ger- 

 minate in about a 

 week or ten days. As 

 soon as large enough 

 to handle conve- 

 niently, the seedlings 

 should be potted 

 into thumb-pots and 

 grown on as rapidly 

 as possible, shifting 

 on into larger size 

 pots as often as re- 

 quired, never allow- 

 ing them to become 

 the least pot-bound, 

 or suffer in any way 

 during the season of 

 growth. The soil 

 should consist of half 

 leaf-mold and half 

 fine fibrous loam, 

 with a good sprink- 

 ling of silver sand, 

 until the final shift 

 into their flowering 

 pots, when the soil 

 should be three parts 

 fibrous loam and one 

 part well - decayed 

 cow-manure or pul- 

 verized sheep-ma- 

 nure. About the first 

 of October the plants 

 should all be removed 

 to the greenhouse, 

 where the atmos- 

 phere should be kept 

 cool and moist, but 



A, a popular form of cineraria. 



not stagnant. If a rainy spell should set in, a little 

 artificial heat should be given to cause a circulation of 

 the atmosphere, and as autumn advances the tempera- 

 ture should be kept about 45 at night, with a rise of 

 -i it, y ' Llc l uld stimulants should not be given 

 until the flower-buds begin to appear, when they are 

 greatly benefited by an occasional watering of clear 

 liquid cow- or sheep-manure. The plants should be well 

 in bloom after the holidays. 



If bloom is wanted in late fall or early winter seed 

 may be sown in May; keep the plants growing all 

 summer, but do not let them bloom till they are estab- 

 lished in 5- or 6-inch pots. 



The Star cineraria (Fig. 965), now popular, is an 

 open grower, 2 feet, not having the large solid masses 

 ot flower-heads of the older larger-flowered kinds. The 

 blooms are single and mostly smaller, and the rays are 

 separated as in a wild aster. These plants go under the 



ists' cinerarias; and there are cactus-flowered strains, 

 with narrow rolled petals. The star cinerarias require 

 the same handling and treatment as the others. 



Double-flowered varieties of cineraria are not com- 

 monly grown, neither are they so beautiful as the single 

 varieties. They may be propagated by seed or by cut- 

 tings, the latter being the best method, as a large per- 

 centage of seedlings are sure to turn out single, which 

 will be inferior in size of flower as compared with the 

 best single varieties. Double-flowering varieties must 

 be propagated each year to secure the best results. As 



soon as the plants 

 have finished blos- 

 soming, the flower 

 stalks should be cut 

 away to induce the 

 plants to make fresh 

 growth, which, as 

 soon as large enough 

 for cuttings, should 

 be taken off and in- 

 serted in an ordinary 

 propagating bed, 

 where they will soon 

 root, after which they 

 should be potted and 

 shifted on as often 

 as required, growing 

 them during the hot- 

 test months in as cool 

 and shaded a position 

 as can be provided. 



Cinerarias are 

 very subject to the 

 attacks of greenfly. 

 To keep these in 

 check, the house in 

 which they are grown 

 should be fumigated 

 with tobacco about 

 once in ten days, or 

 tobacco stems placed 

 among the plants if 

 fumigating is objec- 

 tionable; or the cyan- 

 ide treatment used. 

 See Diseases and 

 Insects. 



Of thediff erent spe- 

 cies of Cineraria from 

 southern Europe 

 (properly Senecios) , 

 C. maritima is per- 

 haps the best. It is of 



dwarf habit, with tomentose, silvery, pinnatifid leaves, 

 and is a most useful subject for edging flower-beds. 

 It is not hardy in the North, consequently must be 

 treated as an annual, sowing the seeds early in March 

 in the greenhouse, afterward treating it as an ordinary 

 summer bedding plant. The other species from south 

 and eastern Europe do not prove hardy North, and if 

 grown should be treated as tender annuals, planting 

 them in the herbaceous borders for the summer. The 

 species from the Cape of Good Hope require greenhouse 

 treatment, the culture being the same as for the com- 

 mon cineraria, although, from an ornamental point of 

 view, most of them would hardly pay for the room they 

 would occupy. EDWARD J. CANNING. 



CINNA (old Greek name for a kind of grass). 

 Grammes. Tall perennials with flat leaf-blades, 

 hpikelets 1-fld., numerous, in nodding panicles, the 



