CHRYSANTHEMUMS — CINERARIA — CLEMATIS 367 
It is best not to attempt to flower the same plant two seasons. 
After the plant has bloomed, the top may be cut down, and the box 
set in a cellar and kept moderately dry. In February or March, bring 
the plant to the sitting-room window and let the shoots start from the 
root. These shoots are taken for cuttings to grow plants for the fall 
bloom. 
Cineraria is a tender greenhouse subject, but it may be grown as a 
house-plant, although the conditions necessary to the best results are 
difficult to secure outside a glasshouse. 
The conditions for cinerarias are a cool temperature, frequent re- 
potting, and guarding against the attacks of the greenfly. Perhaps the 
- last is the most difficult, and with one having no facilities for fumigat- 
ing, it will be almost impossible to prevent the difficulty. A living 
room usually has too dry air for cinerarias. 
The seed, which is very minute, should be sown in August or Sep- 
tember to have plants in bloom in January or February. Sow the 
seed on the surface of fine soil and water very lightly to settle the seeds 
into the soil. A piece of glass or a damp cloth may be spread over the 
pot or box in which the seeds are sown, to remain until the seeds are up. 
Always keep the soil damp, but not wet. When the seedlings are 
large enough to repot, they should be potted singly in 2- or 3-inch 
pots. Before the plants have become pot-bound, they should again 
be repotted into larger pots, until they are in at least 6-inch pots in 
which to bloom. 
In all this time, they should be grown cool and, if not possible to 
fumigate them with tobacco, the pots should stand on tobacco stems, 
which should be moist at all times. The general practice, in order to 
have bushy plants, is to pinch out the center when the flower-buds 
show, causing the lateral branches to start, which they are slow to do 
if the central stem is allowed to grow. Plants bloom but once. 
Clematis. — One of the best of woody climbing vines, the common 
C. Flammula, Virginiana, paniculata and others being used frequently 
to cover division walls or fences, growing year after year without any 
care and producing quantities of flowers. C. paniculata is now planted 
very extensively. The panicles of star-shaped flowers entirely cover 
