ASTERACEiE. 



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exquisitely delicate rose-coloured everlasting flowers, which 

 are particularly adapted for making winter bouquets, as they 

 preserve their colour and form for some time. If sown in 

 a hotbed and put out in May, they are hardy enough to 

 bear the outer air ; but they look so remarkably well in the 

 greenhouse that a few pots should always be retained, as 

 there, free from dashing rains and burning suns, they pro- 

 duce their delicately beautiful flowers to perfection. If the 

 young plants are shifted into larger and larger pots, and the 

 buds repeatedly pinched off, they will become large plants, 

 and yield an immense number of flowers through the au- 

 tumn. The soil should be turfy peat, and sand. 



APHELEXIS. 



Gen. Char. (Syngenesia Superflua.) Receptacle chaffy ; involucre 

 imbricated, radiated, with a coloured ray, 



Aphelexis purpurea, sesamoides, humilis, and fasciculata 

 are deserving of a place amongst the composite flowering 

 shrubs : they have purple or red flowers, and small leaves 

 closely pressed to the stem. They are all natives of the Cape. 



