Transvaal Daisy

Transvaal Daisy (Gerbera) - Perennials from South Africa, of which few are yet in cultivation. G. Jamesoni is a handsome plant, nearly hardy in the southern counties, but too tender for the midlands and the north. Its leathery dark green leaves are shaped like those of a Dandelion, and arranged in a rosette, and the flowers are glowing scarlet, 4 inches across, borne singly on tall bare stems. Where the plant cannot be grown in the border it will bloom in a sunny, airy greenhouse potted in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, and treated as one would a Cineraria. In some gardens it is well grown upon such parts of the rock garden as are devoted to hardy Cacti, where it can be sheltered by a glass roof in winter and kept dry while freely exposed to the air on all sides. G. viridifolia, a dwarfer plant with smaller flowers, white flushed with lilac, is also grown, and between this and G. Jamesoni beautiful hybrids have been raised in which the flowers vary in color from nearly white to salmon-pink, coral-red, orange, and yellow.

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