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warmth in the early stages of growth. C. campanulata, flowers 

 orange, in February. 



CANDLEBEHRY MYRTLE. See Myrica. 



CANDOLLEA. [Dilleniaceae.] Greenhouse evergreen 

 shrubs. They sometimes ripen seeds, from which young 

 plants may be raised if they are sown in pots, and kept in a 

 frame or greenhouse until they vegetate ; or cuttings may be 

 rooted under a bell-glass. The proper compost is a mixture 

 of equal parts loam and peat earth, with which an eighth 

 part of sand may be mixed. They must be grown like other 

 greenhouse plants as to temperature and air. 



CANDYTUFT. See Iberis. 



CANNA. Indian Shot. [Marantaceae.J Stove peren- 

 nial herbs, of considerable stature. The seeds are as large 

 as sweet peas, and as hard as flint. Stove or hotbed heat is 

 required to bring up the plants, which are tall, reed-like, with 

 showy scarlet flowers. They grow well in loam and dung, 

 and require large pots to grow them successfully. In April 

 fill some well-drained pots with soil, and sow in them a 

 couple of seeds, not more than half an inch deep ; place 

 these pots in a hotbed, and in a few days the plants will 

 shoot up. Let them have water enough to keep them moist, 

 and as they grow destroy the weakest plant, shifting the 

 others by removing the balls whole into larger pots ; and 

 having kept them in the hotbed a day or two to establish 

 them, remove them to the stove, or, if you have not a 

 stove, to the greenhouse, where they will perfect their growth, 

 though not so rapidly as in the stove. They perfect their 

 seed in this country. The common C. Indica flowers well in 

 warm situations, planted out in the flower-border, and is 

 very efl'ective both in its foliage and blossoms : for this 

 purpose the plants are turned out about the middle of June. 

 When once reared the plants may be perpetuated by division. 

 CANNABIS. Hemp. [Urticaceae.] Hardy, and an 

 annual in this country. Though insignificant in'its flowers, 

 the Hemp is yet a stately plant when grown freely, remark- 

 able for its fine palmate foliage. It merely requires to be 

 sown in rich garden soil, and the plants allowed to stand out 

 separately. In wilderness scenery they would have a fine 

 appearance. 



