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brilliant colours may please the eye of the passing traveller, 

 they are no very agreeable sight to the farmer, to whom 

 they are but troublesome weeds. He informs us, that 

 there is a law in Denmark to oblige the farmers to extir- 

 pate them. These flowers are also called Gowans, Gules, 

 Gools, Gowls, Guills, Goulans, Goldins, Yellow-bottles, 

 and Golden Corn-flowers. The Germans use them as a 

 yellow dye. The Chrysanthemum, the Indian particularly, 

 is in high estimation with the Chinese, and is celebrated 

 by all their poets *. 



CINERAEIA. 



CORYMBIFER^E. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



Ash-coloured; most of the species being of a grayish colour. 

 French, cendriette ; cinerre. Italian, cineraria. 



THE handsomest kinds are the Blue-flowered Cineraria, 

 or Cape-Aster, and the Woolly Cineraria. The flowers 

 of the first are of a bright sky-blue, and the plant is never 

 without them the whole year round. Of the second, the 

 inner part of the flowers is white, the outside a most 

 vivid purple : it flowers early in the spring, and, if in a 

 healthy state, will also flower all the year ; but this plant 

 is often infested with a kind of insect wjiich destroys its 

 vigour ; therefore, to ensure a succession of healthy, hand- 

 some plants, it should be annually increased by cuttings, 

 which, if planted in September, and placed in a tolerably 

 warm situation, will strike root very readily. 



These plants must be housed in the winter. Many 

 persons keep the last kind in a stove, but, like many of 

 ourselves, they are more healthy when treated less ten- 

 derly. The earth must be kept moderately moist. 



* See Titsinghi's Illustrations of Japan. 



