302 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
“того адаа s ———— n 
Crassula continued. 
С. Cotyledon (Cotylodon-like) A synonym of C. arborescena, 
€. (Henth-Hke)* 4. snow-white, five to ten 
ertooldos 
disposed! in an umbellate eyme. 
Hines long, ovate-oblong, flat, 
Branchiots distant. A. ба. 1820. 
Crassula—continued. 
©. o (pyramidal). f. whitish, small, inconspicuous. 
L four-ranked, very densely imbricate. South Africa. Herba- 
ceous. А very curious plant, from its habit. (G, С. 1872, 289.) 
с. (four-cut) jt. white, tinged with red, panicled, 
us Summer. L OMS xor s upper ones rounder, 
decussate. 1872. Perennial. (Ref. B. 298.) 
С. rosularis (rosulate)* /. white, in opposite, pedunculate 
clusters July. J. radical, obtuse, minutely ciliated, flat, 
rosulate. A. an. 1819. Herbaceous. 
C. rubicunda (rubicund). /. crimson, in terminal dichotomous 
cymes, біп. to lft. across. J. in opposite pairs, clasping the stem 
and broadly connate at the base, lanceolate, green, reflexed, 
narrowed dually to a point, minutely ciliated; lower ones 
6in. to Bin. pem : up т ones gradually laxer and smaller, A, 
to šít. (Ref. B. T 
С. Saxifraga (Saxifraga-like) Л. flesh-coloured, on slender, 
terminal scapes. June. l orbicular or sub-reniform, fleshy, 2im 
to Jin. across, red beneath. А. 4in. 1873. (В. M. 6068.) 
C. spathulata (spathulate). rose-coloured ; cymes pedun- 
culate, paniculate. July. r opposite, petiolate, roundish, 
crenated, glabrous, shining above. Stems suffruticose, decumbent, 
branched. 1774. (L. B. C. 369, under the name of C. cordata.) 
c. (four-angled). fl. white, small, nearly urceolate, 
in a pedunculate fastigiatecyme. August, l decussate, 
sub-connate, depressed above, subulate, somewhat tetragonal, 
incurved, sp кем. Stem erect, shrubby, terete, some- 
what rooting. А. 1711. 
versicolor (changeable).* 1. in umbels at the extremities of 
the branches, sweet-scented in the evening : corolla һуруосгаќегі- 
form, with a long tube ; limb shorter than the tube, iode 
segments somewhat recurved, bright red on the outside, 
white within, except a red n, which gradually e 
the "e гесе 1. imb cu ore d Lr i, 
cially towards the base, connate, sheathing, ith 
ciliæ. Stem shrubby, erect, branched. SYNS. Д 
and Kalosanthes versicolor. (B. M. 2356.) 
CRASSULACEJE. An extensive order of usually 
succulent herbs or shrubs. Flowers in terminal or 
cymes, bracteate or not clustered, often secund; 
three to five, rarely ten to twelve or more, separate or 
united, imbricate in bud. Leaves alternate or opposite, 
exstipulate, often erowded in rosettes at the e 
of the branches. There are abont fourteen genera, in- 
cluding Bryophyllum, Crassula, Sedum, and Sempervivum, 
and about 400 species. 
CRATJIEGUS (from kratos, strength ; in reference to 
the hardness and strength of the wood). Hawthorn. ORD. 
E —— ^ shrubs or small mes. often 
owers mostly white, in terminal corym cymes ; 
subulate, deciduous. Fruit ovoid or globose, with а 
one to five-celled stone, or with five bony one (rarely tw 
seeded stones. Leaves simple, lobed, or pit 
are about fifty species, all of which are confined to N 
temperate regions. In the New World, the home of 
majority of the species, the genus extends into 
Grenada. Few hardy shrubs are more useful and 
mental than the Hawthorn. It makes, perhaps, a 
hedge than any other shrub, as it grows quickly, 
generally thrive in most soils. When preparing р! 
this purpose, the fruits, or “ haws,” should be gathe 
October, and laid in a heap to rot, being at first 
rather thinly, to prevent heating. They should then 
mixed with about one-third their bulk of either fine 
soil or sand, and be overlaid with a covering of soil, ft 
4in. to 6in. in thickness. Here they may remain till! 
time of sowing—in October of the following year—thosi 
some cultivators prefer to sow in spring, in order to af 
the depredations of mice, &c. The ground should be р 
viously well dug and cleaned. The seed may be sown 
drills, 13in. deep, and 12in. from each other. They shoul? 
evenly spread in the furrows, at the rate of half a bushel pet 
of mixed seed and sand to forty yards of furrow, ое 
covered by means of a rake. The surface should, ho” 
ever, be left a little rough, so as to break the 
rain, which is apt to canse it to cake, when 
fine. So soon as the seedlings show themselves 
round, the hoe should be passed between the rowe : 
= the earth and clear it of weeds, With good manae 
_ Ment, a bushel of seed will produce about 4000 
