Plate 6. 
VARIETIES OE CINERARIA. 
Senecio omenta, vars . 
The highly decorative race of Cinerarias, formerly known only 
as producing commonplace purplish star-shaped flower-heads, 
about the size of the Daisy, has been so much improved under 
the hands of the cultivator as to have become one of the most 
useful ?md ornamental of early-blooming florist’s flowers. The 
colours in this class of plants are however unfortunately, in too 
many cases, not to be reproduced by artificial means. Our 
Plate illustrates the degree of perfection, in form and colour, 
to which these showy plants have attained. 
The variety called Beynolds Hole is a large rich purplish-crim¬ 
son self, remarkable for the breadth and smooth surface of its 
florets, which are slightly rehexed, the disc or centre being of a 
dark purple. It was awarded a first-class certificate of merit at 
one of the spring meetings of the Royal Botanic Society on ac¬ 
count of its fine colour as a self, as well as for the breadth 
and smoothness of the florets. It was raised by Mr. Turner, of 
Slough. 
Bridesmaid is a free-growing, free-blooming, showy variety, 
Plate 6.— Senecio cruenta, varieties :— 
Pig. 1. Eeynolds Hole : flower-heads large; florets remarkably broad, 
firm and smooth, rich purplish-crimson. 
Fig. "2. Bridesmaid : flower-heads large, flat; florets white, slightly 
tipped with rosy-crimson. 
Fig. 3. marginata: flower-heads medium size; florets smooth, rather 
concave, white, with a slight tip of deep rosy-lilac, forming a remark¬ 
ably even border. 
Fig. 4. Constancy: flower-heads medium size; florets broad, reflexed, 
white in the lower half, deep rosy-purple in the upper. 
Fig. 5. Garibaldi : flower-heads large; florets broad, rather thin, bright 
lilac-purple, with a white base. 
