The Garden Under Glass

THE BEST FLOWERING PLANTS 67 mixed seeds from a good source will give many forms and shades of colour. If two sowings are made, say about the middle of April and again a month later, we have thus two strings to our bow and a succession of plants can be obtained. Both the stellata and the large flowering type may be treated in a similar manner. As the cineraria is essentially a cool house plant it should never be subjected to a high tempera- Diagram ig.—Cineraria: 1. Seeds sown in pan. 2. Pricked off. 3. Young plant for first potting. 4. Frame for pan and later for potted plants. ture. Even the seeds are best germinated in a cool house. They usually come up quickly and well, and should be pricked off into pans or boxes and a few days later be put in to a cold frame where they can be shaded. A cool, shady spot with a moist atmosphere are the conditions relished. From the pan the seedlings will be transfeired, when they show a tendency to crowd, to small pots, 3-inch, thence to 5-inch, and eventually to their flowering size, 7-inch pots. Those who have had some experience in growing these plants will know that there is a tendency