308 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
close frame, they will root readily. They should afterwards be potted 
singly in a mixture of loam and peat, and kept in a cool greenhouse 
until the following summer, when they may be turned out of the pots 
into the open bed or border. They make admirable bedding plants for 
@ summer display, but they need to be taken up in autumn, potted and 
stored in a cool greenhouse or frame during the winter. In other respects 
they will be found to need little care. 
Description of Gazania splendens, showing trailing habit, leaves, and 
Plate 156. flower-heads, Fig. 1 is a section through the flower-head ; 
2 and 3, ray- and disk-florets respectively, 
SOME MINOR GENERA 
Natural Order Composit: 
SEVERAL genera of Composite plants are represented in our gardens 
which the Scope of the work has not allowed us to illustrate. Some of 
these may be referred to briefly in this place under the names of the 
genera to which they belong. 
, the florets being all tubular and equal, five- 
cleft. The Principal species horticulturally are Vernonia noveboracensis, 
a hardy perennial (North America, 1710) with purple flower-heads which 
appear in August; and V. Calvoana, a handsome stove shrub (Cameroons, 
1861), which produces white flower-heads with purple centre in January: 
They require rich, light soil and are chiefly propagated by cuttings and 
divisions of the plant. 
requiring greenhouse treatment, but may be planted out in the open 
border during summer, Propagated by seeds or by division of the roots. 
Prctis (Latin, pecten, a comb; from the form of the pappus). A 
genus of about forty herbs, of which only one is grown—Pectis angusti- 
Solia, a dwarf, branching, half-hardy annual, about 6 inches high, with 
fringed slender leaves, and fragrant yellow flower-heads. It was intro- 
