March 27, 1909. 
TUB GARDENING WORLD. 
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berature of 55 degs. to 60 degs.,but as soon 
is the seedlings make their appearance 
:he glass should be slightly raised with a 
peg or label, and after a time removed 
iltogether. The pan should be stood near 
the glass, but if the sun should strike 
upon the latter rather strongly, a little 
shading, even in April, would be an ad¬ 
vantage to the young seedlings. When 
they have made one rough leaf they may 
be pricked off into other pans or shallow 
boxes at 1J- in. apart. These pans should 
be returned to the same house or pit, and 
watered very carefully until they com¬ 
mence growing. "When the leaves of dif¬ 
ferent plants touch one another they may 
be potted off singly. Some growers even 
pot them off singly in thumb pots when 
first taken out of the seed pan, and it will 
answer the purpose well enough, provided 
grower has difficulty in keeping down the 
temperature owing to the situation of the 
frames, it would be an advantage to turn 
the latter round so as to face the north in 
order to maintain a cool atmosphere about 
the Cinerarias. The foliage is very thin, 
and that is one reason why a cool moist 
atmosphere should be maintained. In 
very warm dry weather it would be advan¬ 
tageous to dew them over early in the 
morning, and again in the afternoon with 
a syringe. At the same time they should 
be freely ventilated so as to keep the 
plants dwarf and sturdy. 
When the small pots get fairly per¬ 
meated with roots, the plants should get 
a shift into 60-size pots, and later on from 
those into 6 in. pots, in which they may 
be flowered. They might have another 
shift into 24-size pots by those who like 
Hi Sea Holly. 
(— 
(Eryngium oliverianum). 
Of the large number of Sea Hollies 
known to science, a good many are in cul¬ 
tivation, but only a relative few of them 
are popular, or, in,other words, generally 
used. That under notice is not unlike the 
alpine Sea Holly in stature and beauty', 
but it has proved much more tractable in 
English gardens than the alpine Holly, 
which succeeds better in the northern 
counties. 
E. oliverianum usually varies from 2 ft. 
to 3 ft. in height, according to the soil in 
which it is grown. It is distinguished 
the grower has time to attend to these 
pots to keep them just sufficiently moist 
without getting soddened. The illustra¬ 
tion at B shows seedlings transplanted 
from the seed pan into another. At C a 
plant is shown about the size it should 
be when ready for potting off from this 
second pan. 
As the weather gets warmer it will be 
convenient to transfer the second set of 
pans or the small pots, as the case may 
be, to a cold frame where ventilation can 
be given, and the plants will be easier to 
keep moist without always watering them 
down heavily. A frame with ashes in the 
bottom is the best place for standing these 
young Cinerarias, because the moisture 
rising from such will prevent the small 
pots from getting dry and causing that 
fluctuation of temperature which is so 
harmful to Cinerarias in their early' stages. 
In the event of a warm summer, and the 
Eryngium oliverianum, 
barge specimens. On each occasion, when 
repotting is done, care should be taken 
with watering until the roots commence to 
work in the fresh soil, and at each shift a 
more substantial soil should be used. 
When putting them into 6 in. or Sin. 
pots a compost may be made up as shown 
in the diagram at E. Plants of the size 
. shown at D should be potted in a com¬ 
post consisting of five parts of loam, one 
part of well decayed cow manure rubbed 
up fine, one part of wood ashes, and one 
part of sand. Some growers may- also 
employ' half a part of-sphagnum moss with 
a quarter part of mortar rubble. The 
latter is intended for assisting the sand to 
render the compost porous. 
Those who desire to have their plants 
in bloom during winter should sow in 
June. On the other hand, if the plants 
are intended to flower well into spring 
they may be sown in July or August. 
from the other species named by' the leaves 
being deeply divided from the base of the 
stem upwards. The upper part of the 
stems or branches and the bracts are of a 
beautiful steel-blue, especially the bracts, 
while the flowers themselves are blue. In 
gardens where the soil is relatively rich 
and moist it will, therefore, make a suit¬ 
able plant for the back line, or even the 
second line, according to the width of the 
border. Besides being grown in clumps 
consisting of a single plant, it may also 
be grown in groups to produce a more 
conspicuous effect, as, for instance, in 
mixed borders where the massing of vari¬ 
ous plants has been found to give results 
which could not be obtained in borders 
planted in lines. The accompanying 
illustration merely' shows the upper part 
of the stem and flowers, chiefly those por¬ 
tions which are coloured of "the charac¬ 
teristic steel-blue. 
