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attiuus even a yard in height. At the top of the stem is a 

 head of leaves, or fronds, which are shaped and plaited like a 

 fan. It is this singular form of the leaves which renders the 

 plants so remarkable in appearance. The flowers are insig- 

 nificant. The phnit should be grown in turfj loam, peat 

 earth, and rotten dung in equal parts ; and being coarse-rooted, 

 it requires considerable scope for its roots ; in fact, the plants 

 soon get too mau}^ roots for a garden-pot, and require to be 

 planted in tubs. When they get to a comparatively large 

 size they will stand for several years with little attention 

 besides watering and top-dressing. Under cultivation they 

 seldom fm-nish materials for propagation, and are propagated 

 mostly by imported seeds. There are several other sorts. 



CHARLWOODIA. [Liliacese.] Greenhouse shrubs, 

 with a slender Yucca-like habit. They ai-e raised from the 

 side-shoots thrown out when the plant flowers, or the centre 

 is artificially destroyed, or from suckers. These shoots are 

 to be taken off when a little hardened, and planted singly in 

 moderate-sized pots of sandy soil like cuttings, and kept 

 close and rather dry in a frame until rooted. Established 

 plants ai'e grown in peat and loam, and shifted into larger 

 pots from size to size as they advance. Now by some united 



with CORDYLINE. 



CHEILANTHES. [Polypodiacese.] Very interesting 

 small ferns, including hardy gieenhouse and stove species : of 

 the two former groups but few are in cultivation. Peat and 

 loam. Propagated by division. The principal are C. hirta, 

 C. microniera., C. microjjteiis, C. odora, C. j^rofusa, G. j^teroides, 

 (J. rufescens, 0. teinii folia, and C. vestita. 



CHEIRANTHUS. Wallflower. [CruciferEe.] Hardy 

 perennials, of somewhat shrubby habit. C. Cheiri, the well- 

 known common Wallflower, has produced various handsome 

 double-flowered varieties, of which the best are the bright 

 yellow, dark brown, and purple. The common single kind is 

 grown abundantly in most flower-borders, and bears its yellow 

 or brownish blossoms freely in April and May, on plants 

 reared from seeds sown in May of the previous year. The 

 seeds should be sown in a bed of light, or rather sandy soil, 

 and the plants pricked out, when large enough, into a nursery- 

 bed, from whence they may be transplanted, wit.li compact 



