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annually, toTje drawn yountr for salads,
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&c. On account of its strong taste, it
is greatly inferior to the common onion
for this purpose ; but from its extreme
hardness in withstanding the severest
frost, it may be cultivated with advantage
as a winter-standing crop for spring
use.
Varieties.—Two varieties are in cultivation,
the white and the red; the
first of which is in general use.
Cultivation.—As it may be sown at
all times with the onion, and is similarly
cultivated, except that it may be
; Gem;
Nobilis ; Perfficta ;
Queen Victoria; Rival King; Royal
Blue; Sspphire ; Splendida ; Waterhousiana
; and Webberiana.
Characteristics of Excellence.—The
cineraria does not exhibit so much improvement
as most florists' (lowers.
" The petals should be thick, broad,
blunt, and smooth at the ends, closely
set, and form a circle without much
indentation. The centre, or yellowdisk,
should be less than one-third of
the diameter of the whole flower; in
other words, the coloured circle formed
sown thicker, and only thinned as by the petals should be wider all round
wanted, the direction given for that than the disk measures across. The
vegetable will suffice. The blade usu- colour should be brilliant, whether
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ally dies away completely in winter, but shaded or self; or if it be a white it
fresh ones are thrown out again in Feb- should be very pure.
ruary or March.
The trusses of flower should be
To obtain Seed.—To obtain seed large and close, and even on the sursome
of the roots must be planted out face, the individual flowers standing
in March, six or eight inches asunder. together with their edges touching each
The first autumn they will produce but other, however numerous thev may be.
little seed; in the second and third, The plant should be dwarf. The stems
however, it will be produced abundant- strong, and not longer than the width
ly. If care is taken to part and trans- across the foliage ; in other words,
plant the roots every two or three years, from the upper surface of the truss of
they may be multiplied, and will re- the flower to the leaves where the
main productive for many years, and stem starts from should not be a greater
afibrd much better seed than that from
one-year-old roots.
Scallions.—There is good reason for
distance than from one side of the foliage
to the other." Hort. Mag.
Propagation hy Seed.— " Sow in May
concluding that by a confusion ofnames, in the open border; thin out the plants
arising from similarity of appearance,
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this vegetable is the true scallion, whilst
the hollow leek of Wales is the true
Welsh onion ; for the description of; Card. Chron.
scallion, as given by Miller, accords
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where they are crowded, and transplant
them when they have three good leaves,
and pot them to remain in October."
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by Cuttings.— "After
exactly with that of the Welsh onion, the bloom has perfected itself and de-
At present all onions that have refused caved, cut down the stems, stir the
to bulb, and formed lengthened necks earth upon the surface, then earth up
and strong blades in spring and sum- with fresh compost, filling the pot
mer, are called scallions.
rather full than otherwise ;
CICCA disticha. Stove evergreen plants with a little water,
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fruit tree. Leafy cuttings. Sandy them
loam.
refresh the
and place
CIMICIFUGA. Four species. Hardy
herbaceous perennials. Division. Seeds.
Common soil.
CINCHONA. Two species. Stove
evergreen tree and shrub. Ripe cuttings.
Loam and peat.
CINERARIA. Fifty-four species.
ChieHy hardy and green-house herbaceous
; but some green-house ever-
in the frame again ; or if you have
none convenient, in a dry and sheltered
place in the garden.
" The growth of a few weeks will
enable you to detect side shoots, some
with roots, and some without roots, and
leave only the main plant in the pot,
which should be earthed up again, and
set by. The shoots which have no
roots to them should be stripped of two
or three of the bottom leaves, that they
ay be placed in a pot of the usual sort
green shrubs. It is a genus of florists'
flowers, and the varieties which they of compost that the plant may have
have raised are very numerous. A been growing in, with a little sand at
top, say a quarter of an inch thick, and
good selection is the following:— [