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HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS. 



C. alpt? stria (Alpine). 1. Yellow. May. Swit- 

 zerland. 1819. 



alptna .(Alpine). 1. Yellow. July. Swit- 



zerland. 1819. 



auranti'aca (orange). 1. Orange. June. 



Switzerland. 1819. 



aifrea (golden). 3. Yellow. July. Si- 



beria. 1827. 



auricula' ta (small-eared). 3. Yellow. 



August. 1831. 



canade 1 mis (Canadian). 2. Yellow. July. 



Canada. 1739. 



campe' stris (wild). 1. Yellow. May. 



Europe. 



crassifo'lia (thick -leaved). 1. Yellow. 



July Carinthia. 1827. 



cri'spa (curled). 3. Yellow. July. Swit- 



zerland. 1818. 

 fla'mmea (flame-coloured). Flame. Dahuria. 



gigtfntea (gigantic). 2. White. July. 



Cape Horn. 1801. 



int egrifo' Ha (entire-leaved). 1. Yellow. 



May. England. 



Iceviga'ta (smooth - leaved] . 1. Yellow. 



July. Siberia. 1819. 



longifo'lia (long-leaved). 2. Yellow. July. 



Austria. 1792. 



macrophy'Ua (large-leaved). 8. Yellow. 



July. Altai Mountains. 1831. 



mari'tima (sea. Ragwort). 2. Yellow. Au- 



gust. South Europe. 1633. Ever- 

 green. 



palu'stris (marsh). 3. Yellow. June. 



England. 



pappo'sa (downy-crowned). 1. Yellow. 



July. Gallicia. 1821. 



parviflo'ra (small-flowered). 2. Yellow. 



July. Caucasus. 1820. 



racemo'm (racemed). 1. Yellow. July. 



Caucasus. 1820. 



renifo'lia (kidney-leaved). 1. Yellow. 



May. Kussia. 1833. 



rivula'ris (rivulet). 1. Yellow. July. 



Hungary. 1816. 



sib'irica (Siberian). 4. Yellow. July. 



Siberia. 1784. 



spatulfcfo' lia (spatulate-leaved). 1. Yel- 



low. May. Germany. 1820. 



specio'sa (showy). 6. Yellow. June. 



Siberia. 1815. 



sude'tica (Swiss). 2. Yellow. July. Swit- 



zerland. 1819. 



thyrsoi'dea (thyrse-formed) . Prussia. 1832. 



CINERA'RIA as a Florists' Flower. The 

 immense varieties of this flower seem to 

 be the offspring by various crosses of 

 C. malvcefolia, lanata, populifolia^ and 

 probably some others. 



Propagation by Offsets. When a cine- 

 raria has done blooming, remove it from 

 the greenhouse, cut down the old flower 

 stems (excepting such as are intended 

 to save seed from), place the pots out of 

 doors upon a bed of coal ashes, in an 

 open situation. Give water moderately 

 in dry weather ; and as soon as the off- 



sets appear, and have attained a leaf or 

 two, take them off with a sharp knife, 

 with the roots uninjured ; plant them in 

 small pots, and place them in a cold 

 frame, shading them from the light for a 

 fortnight, and from bright sunshine for 

 another week. They will then be well 

 rooted, and will require a pot a size 

 larger. 



By Seed. Sow the seed as soon as it 

 is ripe in shallow wide pots, in light fine 

 soil, and slightly covered. As soon as 

 the seedlings have formed two or three 

 leaves, prick them out into the same 

 kind of pots in a somewhat richer soil. 

 They may remain in these pots till they 

 have made some more leaves and fresh 

 roots, then pot them off singly into small 

 pots, shading for a few days. After- 

 wards, and at the proper time, re-pot 

 them in the same manner as the offsets. 



Soil. The offsets and seedlings having 

 attained the proper size for potting into 

 larger pots, prepare for that operation by 

 mixing and bringing, in a moderately 

 dry state, to the potting bench, the fol- 

 lowing compost : Turfy loam from an 

 upland pasture, two parts ; fibrous peat, 

 one part ; decayed leaves, two years 

 old, one part; very rotten cowdung, 

 half a part ; and a small addition of river 

 sand. Prepare, also, a sufficient quan- 

 tity of broken potsherds of two sizes, one 

 as large as walnuts, and the other about 

 the size of peas. Have also a sufficient 

 number of either new or clean-washed 

 pots, two sizes larger than the plants 

 are in. You are then ready for the ope- 

 ration of potting. 



Winter Culture. By the time the 

 plants, whether offsets or seedlings, are 

 ready for re-potting out of their first 

 size pots, cold nights will have begun to 

 take place, which brings the time of cul- 

 ture under this head. Bring the plants 

 on to the potting-bench ; prepare a pot 

 by placing a large piece of potsherd over 

 the hole at the bottom of the pot, then a 

 layer of the larger size, and a second 

 layer of the smallest size ; place a thin 

 layer of the rougher parts of the compost 

 upon them, and as much soil as will be 

 required to keep the plant just level with 

 the rim of the pot ; set the plant in the 

 pot, and fill round it with the compost, 

 pressing it gently down. Be careful not 



