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THE CINERARIA. 
Wished young plants are perhaps the best, a gradually increasing 
heat, commencing at 45° and rising to 55°, is the best for them, 
and with plenty of water in the earlier stages of their development, 
the production of handsome well-flowered specimens is certain to 
result. 
T. Henderson. 
THE CINERARIA. 
As an admirer of this charming family, I observe with much 
pleasure the interest now so generally taken in their improvement, 
and abundantly they deserve it, for scarce another tribe is so 
admirably adapted to render gay in the cheerless months of 
winter the greenhouse or sitting-room. Those who bestow a 
little labour and attention on them now, will then find themselves 
duly rewarded by the profusion of bloom which under judicious 
management is invariably produced. 
When the plants have done flowering, they should be cut down 
and set in a cold frame, or any other convenient, airy, and 
sheltered situation, where they require no further attention than 
an adequate supply of water to enable them to push forth a fresh 
foliage, which they readily do from the crowns of the old roots, 
and when of sufficient strength for propagation, cuttings may be 
carefully taken off; the old plants are consequently destroyed, 
each cutting is potted in a sixty-sized pot, with a mixture in 
equal parts, of sand and leaf-mould finely sifted, then placed in a 
frame with a gentle bottom heat, where they strike root and grow 
freely; when they are sufficiently rooted they should be shifted 
into forty-eight-sized pots, with a compost in equal parts of fresh 
loam and leaf-mould, to which is added a little sand ; they should 
then be taken to a cold frame shut close, and slightly shaded 
during the hours of sunshine, until the plants recover from the 
check they sustain by shifting. Afterwards air is admitted freely 
by tilting the lights back and front, which prevents the plants 
from becoming drawn. As soon as they seem to require it, they 
are again repotted, placing them this time into the blooming pot, 
which should be those known as thirty-twos. The compost at 
