304 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
should be thinly sprinkled and kept in place by a fine sifting of the 
compost. The whole should then be very carefully moistened by the 
spray from a fine rose, the pan covered with glass and placed in a shady 
corner of the greenhouse or cold frame. When the young plants appear 
raise the glass to give air, and gradually remove it. Give plenty of light 
also, but shade from bright sunshine. As soon as they may be handled 
safely, prick off into other pans, or pot singly in three-inch pots, still 
keeping them in the house and in the shade until they are thoroughly 
established. Then give more air, and so gradually harden that they 
may be turned outside in a sheltered position with a northern aspect: 
or they may be placed in a cold frame or pit on a bottom of coal- 
hes. 
The potting mixture should be a compost of rich loam, leaf-mould, 
and well-rotted sheep- or cow-manure in equal portions, with sharp sand 
added, and used in rather & rough condition. In this they must be regu- 
rays of the sun. When 
and continue to do so un 
Description of One of the many florists’ varieties of Senecio cruentus, 
— showing the upper leaves and the flowers. Fig. 1 is a 
section through the flower-head : 2, an enlarged unopened floret from 
the disk; 3 the Same expanded ; and 4, in section. 
CACALIA 
Natural Order Composirz. Genus Emilia 
Evra (commemorative name). A few species of herbs formerly in- 
cluded in the genus Cacalia, which is now incorporated with Senecio, but 
still known in gardens as Cacalias. The distinguishing character of the 
Stroup is found in the florets, all of which are tubular, with five elongated 
crowned wit 
Savage . ha pappus consisting of many rows of fine long hairs. The 
© involuere are in a single series, erect. 
