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gardens but may be ot use for covering banks and 
similar places. It prefers a rich humid soil. There 
is a variegated variety of this plant, sold under 
several names. 
Doronicuni has I 5 species and several varieties 
of early summer yellow and orange or occasionally 
CINERARIA HYBRIDS. 
whitish flowered herbs of varying height. 
Rhetinodcndron appears lo be a tree from Rob- 
inson Crusoe’s Island. 
Crassoccphalum aurantiacum is a densely tom- 
entose plant with yellow flowers kept in Californian 
gardens. It is a native of Java and belongs to a genus 
of 20 species found in the sub-tropics of Asia, Aus- 
tralasia and Africa. 
Cineraria is a genus of 25 species natives of 
South and Tropical Africa. They are best known 
through the hybrid races. Many of the silvery 
leaved and hardy plants which have borne this name 
are transferred to other genera. The greenhouse 
kinds are so well known that it only seems neces- 
sary to point to their great improvement as shown 
by the group of plants grown by W. L. Marshall at 
Pansy Park, Massachusetts, compared with the spec- 
ies, and hint at the possibibility of their becoming 
winter garden annuals in some of the frostless can- 
yons of the South West. 
Senecio is a very various and extensive genus of 
960 species found in one kind or other all over the 
world. Many plants sold as Cineraria, Jacobaea, 
Ligularia, Farfugium, Cacalia, Kleinia, etc., are 
of this genus. They are sometimes shrubs such as 
the very silvery S. Palmeri of Guadalupe Island, 
and S. Cineraria used as a bedding plant but be- 
come wild on some parts of the coast of California. 
Sometimes they are climbers such as the “German 
Ivy” of the florists, and often they are bad weeds 
such as the groundsel. S. elegans in double and 
other varieties are beautiful South African plants 
much used in gardens. S. Koempferi is known 
through its spotted leaved forms, and mostly sold as 
farfugium. S. aureus is the native “ragwort” and 
by no means devoid of beauty. 
Bedfordia is in two species natives of Australia. 
B. salicina is in Californian gardens growing as a 
shrub of 12 or 15 feet high. 
Lepidosparton squamatum is a monotypic broom 
like shrub of 4 or 5 feet high from the arid regions 
of the South West. The seedling plants are leafy 
and tomentose, but as they become older the 
branches are covered with closely pressed green 
scales, and terminal spicate heads of pale yellow 
flowers. 
Dimorphotheca is a South African genus of sub- 
shrubs, perennials and annuals. They have white, 
yellow, purple and vari-colored flowers. D. fruti- 
cosa appears to be known in gardens under the 
name of “bush marigold.” 
Calendula “pot marigold” has 10 or more spec- 
ies. The double varieties of C. officinale are well 
known in gardens. 
Arctotis in 30 species are South African annuals 
with showy white and red, white and orange, yel- 
low and purple, pink and various other colored 
flowers which close during dull weather. 
Vcmdium with 18 species from the same region 
have mostly yellow or orange flowers with dark 
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disks. They were seen to some extent in the New 
York markets some years ago. 
Gasania in 24 species is chiefly South African. 
They were once extensively used at the Crystal 
Palace and other places as bedding plants, and dur- 
