CINERARIAS AND PRIMULAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

CINERARIAS AND PRIMULAS.

Among greenhouse plants that flower I in winter and early spring few are so useful as these, and it is doubtful if any are more easily grown, provided that they are treated with ordinary care. The ordinary forward plants are now ready to transfer into pots. These should be quite clean and carefully crocked. A compost consisting of three parts good fibrous loam and one part leafsoil, with the addition of a little coarse silver sand, would suit both cinerarias and primulas. The former will make large specimens in seven-inch potsj but five and six-inch pots will be large enough for the latter. See that the young plants are moist at the roots before being potted. It will then not be necessary to give any water for a day or so. Grow the plants in a frame, which should be kept fairly close until the roots commence to penetrate the fresli soil, when more air must be given. Shade tile, plants from bright sunshine and continue to grow them in a frame until the cold weather arrives.