326 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



To have Cinerarias in flower by Christmas, sow seed in late 

 June, keep the little plants alongside your Primulas in a cool, airy 

 house, and shade them a little. Don't let them suffer for want of 

 water or moisture in the house and keep shifting them so you will 

 have them in 6-in. pots by October. Give them full sunlight after 

 that and place them in the Carnation house on a bench, allowing 

 plenty of space between the plants. Plants not shifted after the 

 latter part of September will, as soon as they are potbound, set 

 buds, while those you keep shifted into larger pots will most likely 

 keep on growing until the end of January, after which date it is 

 hard to stop any from flowering. 



Plants for Later Flowering 



Seeds of Cinerarias may be sown up to October and plants 

 had in flower up to Easter, but the later you sow the more careful 

 you have to be not to let the plants become stunted, as this usually 



Fig. 133. — A Specimen Cineraria showing what can be done with a good plant. 

 A few like this about the middle of January will make things Uvely in the show 

 house. Pot into rather heavy soil and give plenty of room and a cool but sunny 



house 



