Plate 111. 
VARIETIES OE CINERARIA. 
Senecio cruenta , vars. 
Amongst the numerous varieties of Cineraria which have 
been brought under the notice of the public during the present 
season, some very beautiful self-coloured sorts have attracted 
considerable notice, and as in our last plate of the general 
favourite we gave examples of tipped flowers, we have thought 
it desirable to give in our present one three of the most beau¬ 
tiful of the self-coloured or nearly self-coloured flowers. 
It is hardly to be expected that when a flower has reached 
so high a pitch of excellence as some of our florists’ flowers 
have done, any further great advance can be made; but, when 
we carefully compare (as all who are deeply interested in 
it will be sure to do) the flowers of the season with those of a 
year or two back, they will see that a considerable improve¬ 
ment has taken place, both in brightness of colour and in ex¬ 
cellence of form, while dwarfness in habit and vigour of growth 
have been also obtained. 
We have found this season that no better place for the old 
plants of Cineraria, when they are cut down, and offsets are 
desired, can be found than a tiffany house; they are shaded from 
the scorching sun, and at the same time not drawn into growth 
as they would be if kept in a greenhouse; and if this be so in 
so cold a summer as this has been, we consider that it will be 
found still more useful when the sun has more power and 
rain is less abundant. It has been suggested that cocoa-nut 
fibre refuse, of which so much has been said lately, will be 
found an excellent material for these plants; and although we 
are about to try it ourselves, we shall rather do so as an ex¬ 
periment than depend on it altogether. 
The three varieties which we now figure were exhibited by 
