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remarkable that the flowers of many of the kinds do not wither till the 
seeds are ripe. The seeds should be sown immediately in pots of light 
rich earth, and placed in a hotbed. As soon as the seedlings have opened 
their second pair of leaves, if they appear tolerably strong, they should be 
transplanted into the small pots called sixties. They should be again trans¬ 
planted in a week or two, into rather larger pots; and again two or three 
times according to their growth, and to the size they are wished to attain 
—frequent shifting greatly increasing the size and bushiness of the plant. 
It must be observed, however, that if the plants appear very weak in the 
seed-bed, they may be suffered to attain their third, and, in some cases, 
even their fourth pair of leaves, before they are removed ; and that when 
they are transplanted, it will do them injury instead of good, unless their 
roots appear on the outside of the ball of earth, ‘when it is turned out of 
the pot. Cinerarias require a great deal of nourishment; and the soil in 
which they grow may be enriched with vegetable mould or rotten dung, 
and the plants watered with soap-suds, liquid manure, &c. If the 
flowers are wished to be particularly fine, when the plants have done 
flowering, which is generally about the end of May or June, they should 
be cut down, and the pots placed in a dry place, where they should be 
kept nearly without water till August; in the course of which month the 
roots should be divided, and the old plants re-potted. They must be 
kept in a cold pit or greenhouse, from which the frost is excluded, during 
winter; and if they are wanted to flower early, they should be plunged 
into a slight hotbed. While in a growing and flowering state, they 
should be freely and regularly watered; but the water should never be 
allowed to stand in the saucer. All the Cinerarias may be propagated by 
cuttings, which strike readily; and most of them, if kept too warm, or 
too moist at the root, are apt to be infested with a species of aphis, which 
makes the leaves curl up. The remedy is setting the plants in the open 
air, and frequently syringing them. 
ON GOLD AND SILVER FISH. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
These beautiful kinds of fish are varieties of a kind of carp ( Cyprinus 
auratus , Lin.) There are indeed so many different kinds belonging to 
this species, that M. de Sauvigny published a work in Paris in 1780, in 
which he gave coloured representations of eighty-nine varieties, of every 
different shade of gold, silver, orange, brown, and purple. They vary 
also in their tails, which are sometimes double, and sometimes triple ; 
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