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pirrple. C. Flawula is a fine sweet scented variety, but 

 the leaves are poisonous and should be kept out of the reach 

 of children. C. Florida bears a white flower, also desira- 

 ble. A few well selected plants of different colors would 

 make a splendid appearance in the window of any amateur 

 in the spring and summer while flowering-. 



CINERARIA, OR THE CAPE ASTER. 



" The youthful season's wanton bloom 

 Renews the beauty of each flower, 

 And to the sweet songed bird is come 

 Glad welcome from its darling flower." 



This is a delightful herbaceous perennial and is becom- 

 ing quite a favorite in the green-house as well as the parlor. 

 Within a few years the florists of England and France have 

 been industrious in hybridizing the old varieties, which are 

 natives of Europe, Cape of Good Hope, and other parts, by 

 these means we are furnished with those delightful hybrid 

 flowers, now so industriously cultivated by nurserymen, with 

 Aster like flowers, developing their lively appearance in the 

 early spring. The leaves of the Cineraria are alternate, 

 covered with a white soft down, the under part of a purple 

 cast, the flower stem from twelve to eighteen inches high, 

 with a fine radient corymb or panicled flowers of spicy fra- 

 grance at the extreme ends, some bearing purple, white 

 with a purple disk, others pink, and some white tipped with 

 purple, and many other colors and shades. There are sev- 



