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Teaches : Alexander, Grosse Mignoime, Barrington, 

 Sea Eagle, and Walburton Admirable. 



Fears : Jargonelle, Williams's Bonchretien, Beurre 

 d'Amanlis, Louis Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise, 

 Beurre Hardy, Beurre Superfin, Crassane, Thomp- 

 son's, Winter Nelis, Knight's Monarch, Glout 

 Morceau, and Josephine de Malines, all dessert 

 kinds ; and Catillac, as a stewing kind. 



Flums : Greengage, Jefferson's, Kirke's, and 

 Coe's Golden Drop for the dessert ; Victoria, Early 

 Orleans, Winesour, and Washington for the kitchen. 



Faspberries : Carter's Prolific and Fastolf . 



Fhuharb : Linnaeus and Victoria. 



Strawberries : Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury and 

 Keen's Seedhng of the earlies, President and Sir 

 Joseph Paxton for mid-season, British Queen and 

 Myatt's Eliza of the later sorts. 



Vegetables. — Asparagus : Giant Battersea. 

 Broad Beans : Beck's Dwarf Green Gem and Green 

 Windsor. French Beans : Osbom's Forcing and 

 Canadian Wonder. Funncr Beans : Scarlet (Old) and 

 Painted Lady. Beet-root : Dell's Crimson or Egyptian 

 Turnip-rooted, the latter for early use. Kale : Dwarf 

 Green Curled. Broccoli : Veitch's Self-protecting 

 Autumn, Penzance White, Purple Sprouting, Leam- 

 ington, and Model. Brussels Sprouts : Veitch"s 

 Paragon and the Albert Sprout. Cabbage: Ellam's 

 Early, Little Pixie, and the Rosette colewort. Savoy 

 Cabbage : Tom Thumb. Carrots : Early French 

 Nantes and James's Intermediate. Cauliflower : 

 Early London and Veitch's Autumn Giant. Celery : 

 Major Clarke's Red, Sandringham Dwarf "VSHiite. 

 Cress : American or Land Cress and the Common 

 Watercress, both coming freely from seed in a damp 

 comer. Cucumber : Stockwood. Endive : Round- 

 leaved Batavian. Lettuce : " All the Year Round " 

 Cabbage, and Hicks' Hardy ^Tiite and Brown Sugar- 

 loaf among the Cos kinds. Mustard and Cress. 

 Onion : Silver- skinned and the " Queen." Farsley : 

 Extra- curled. Feas : American Wonder, Little 

 Gem, and William I. of the earlier ; Criterion, 

 Stratagem, and Veitch's Perfection for the main crop : 

 and Ne-plus-ultra, with Omega, its dwarf variety, for 

 the late crops. Radishes : French Breakfast, Red 

 and WTiite Turnip. Spinach : Prickly or Winter. 

 Tomato : Orangefield Dwarf and Vick's Criterion. 

 Turnip : Early Snowball, Veitch's Red Globe, and 

 Chirk Castle (late). Vegetable Marroiv : Moore's 

 Cream. Fotatoes : Ash-leaf Kidney (Veitch's) and 

 Covent Garden Perfection, both being kinds with 

 short tops, and very reliable in quality ; the latter kind 

 is a good succession to the former ; if a later kind still 

 is needed, Reading Russet is highly recommended. 



The catalogues of respectable firms will furnish 

 more complete information with reference to each 

 list of suitable subjects that we have quoted. 



FLOEISTS' FLOWEES. 



By Eichard Dean. 



The Cineraria. — It has been remarked in 

 reference to this flower, with much truth, that " the 

 comparative ease with which the Cineraria can be 

 well grown, together with the exceeding beauty and 

 variety of its flowers, will always ensure for it a 

 high position in public favom\" That it can be 

 easily grown is shown by the fact that a gardener of 

 oui" acquaintance, with limited glass accommodation 

 at his command, adopts this rough and ready plan of 

 raising seedlings : — He stands by themselves in a 

 cold frame with an ash bottom, a few plants of his 

 best varieties ; here they shed their seeds, and pre- 

 sently the little seedlings come up in plenty. Still 

 it is best, as a matter of precaution, to raise seedlings 

 under glass, as an accident might cause the loss of the 

 plants raised in tbe open air. 



Time was when seedling Cinerarias of high-class 

 quality were named, as varieties of Begonias and other 

 plants are named now-a-days. These varieties were 

 increased by means of cuttings taken from growths sent 

 up from the roots at the end of the summer, put into 

 small pots of light sandy soil, and rooted in a gentle 

 bottom heat. In this way a favourite variety can be 

 propagated, for no Cineraria can be depended upon 

 to reproduce itself exactly from seed. The Cineraria 

 has, however, become so improved of recent years 

 that the naming of particular varieties is now seldom 

 followed; and if it is done, only sparingly; for 

 strains are so fine generally that seedlings are in- 

 variably found of high-class quality. 



The Cineraria is a plant of rapid growth, ver^- 

 succulent, thirsty, requires generous feeding, and 

 will not endure imharmed extremes of heat and cold. 

 A cool treatment is necessary in almost all stages of 

 its gro^-th, but if frost seizes on the plants they are 

 materially damaged. 



The best time to sow seed is during the months of 

 May and J une ; and, as a rule, the plants raised in 

 May will be found most valuable. The time when 

 the plants will flower depends much on the manner 

 in which they are grown on, whether rapidly or not ; 

 but, as a rule, a June sowing must not be expected 

 to produce flowers imtil the following iNIarch or 

 April. It is quite possible to have Cinerarias in 

 bloom in iSTovember and December, and those who 

 care for a display at that early peiiod should sow in 

 April." In sowing it is simply necessary to sow 

 thinly in pans or pots of light sandy soil, and place 

 them in a cool frame, or on a shelf on the shady side 

 of a greenhouse. The seeds quickly germinate, and 

 as soon as the plants show their second leaves, they 

 should be potted singly into thumb pots — pots of 



