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June 22, 1895 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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give ate E the plant to ct Bi ia aA is; 
this cas Nee onlv iss he follo wing 
re marks, — m Mr. wire description, will be 
oo germ aoe co e n with the r 5 i 
In the besuty — — N Cine eraria lanata 
rica far fetes all 
etals 1 
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Fic, 118.—vicoMTessk HËRICART DE THURY STRAWBERRIES IN POTS, AT MUILGRAVE CASTLE. 
to become lousy—this is one. The only way to have 
handsome, healthy, strong: fowering plants, is to 
stant succession by cuttings, for there 
ikes more readily ; these obs gee geet be 
nical 
Royal Gardens, Kew, 80 
n m Canary Isles. 
eee in a 
uced by Mas 
Cork Botanic Garden goes to prove that it could be 
raised freely from prot 185 he predicted that fine 
double vee single varieties of eo n colours would 
be obtained. Those who can 
agazi — plates will observ 
3 ge self-coloured — and that C. lanata 
uch larger, of nearly the paser “color, but the 
inte ally tormin ng a 
rin un e ant 
present garden, varieties If any attempt is made to 
cg a of Cineraria, 25 would a 
BI hav — above. have hunted up a large 
— of ot her species ne 
ve the characteristics 0 
There is constant 
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a ersion 
normal forms amongst the thousands of —— 
I raise every year, but their numbers are fe 
not above one yor two in As N plants. 
I had one this year whic distinct 
more like C. cruenta than yi d or 
- ieti the florist’s type 
her low-growing varieties of 
This was destro sy at once, as its y t was 
ginal species, 
by merely selecting the lanky babited es and 
adly formed flowers as tead of 
ruthlessly destroying Beer If — * © lanata 
and C. cruenta can be obtained, and no one else cares 
to cross-fertilise them, I should be please 
Paes romic 
au iota, and specific have 
been produced * * croas-fertliaation e "Engla: nd, 
We ie excellen 
quite distinct as a native species, but produced in 
(SER P. 774.) 
ee ing O. age win and O. 
triumphans, es r uently be, 
doubtless are, produced ection; but 
far these have been influenced by cross-fertilisati: 
ertilisation 
it is impossible to say. I have been looking through 
Darwin 's book on Animals and Plants under Domes- 
ication, and he deals with such — flowers as the 
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‘inctly to c source, or to show how varieties 
have been ced. Even the garden Pansy is sup- 
posed to have been produced from several wild stocks, 
ides V. tri Calti n distinct 
species, and bringing intelligence to bear u 
them, they obtain certain ex om 
crossing, and by selecting the 
varieties as 
bearers, the produce of these hybrid forms is more 
