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April, where the plants are to flower, will give a succession 

 to the Autumn raised plants. If a sowing is made in Spring 

 under glass, some care must be taken at the time of trans- 

 planting, as the Cornflowers do not take kindly to root 

 disturbance. 



The Sweet Sultans are very beautiful, and they have been 

 improved greatly during recent years by Messrs. Jarman 

 and Co. of Chard and other cultivators. The older type 

 gives flowers a couple of inches across, and these may 

 be rose, yellow, or white, and in each case they are 

 sweetly scented. The height is about i| foot. The newer 

 forms are sometimes stated to have been raised from 

 C^titaurea suaveolens, but this is a doubtful species, and the 

 probability is that they have all been evolved from C. 

 moschata. These newer forms, with flowers 3 inches broad, 

 are listed as Bridesmaid, pale lemon-yellow ; Honeymoon, 

 bright yellow with golden centre ; The Bride, pure white ; 

 and The Bridegroom, rosy-pink with whitish centre. All 

 these grow 3 feet high under suitable conditions. 



For several years I could not grow a Sweet Sultan worth 

 looking at, but after raising seedlings in a frame and trans- 

 ferring them singly to small pots as soon as possible, and 

 planting them out in May in soil well limed some time 

 previously, I was very successful. Certainly these Giant 

 Sweet Sultans are splendid garden flowers, and they may 

 be successfully managed from an autumn sowing in light 

 soil where lime or chalk are present in some quantity ; such 

 a sowing should be made where the plants are to flower, 

 and beyond thinning, weeding, and the use of a few twiggy 

 sticks to support them and prevent damage by wind, they 

 will need little attention. Where cut flowers are greatly 

 in demand an autumn sowing ought to be made in the re- 

 serve garden. 



Centaurea depressa is very like C. Cyanus, but of lower 



