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flowering size. The hardy ones will grow anywhere, and only 

 require planting in peat soil. 



CLIANTHUS. Glory Pea. [Leguminosae, § Papilionacete.] 

 Free-growing evergreen greenhouse shrubs. Propagated by 

 cuttings in sand on bottom heat. The cuttings, when rooted, 

 should be kept in small pots until well established ; after- 

 wards shift moderately until the plants are as large as can 

 be accommodated, when it is better to renew them. The soil 

 should be loam and peat in equal parts, with one-sixth sand, 

 (y. piiniceus is of rather straggling habit, but sufficiently 

 sturdy to train into a bush if kept constantly topped while 

 young. It can be grown in a pot, on a pillar trellis as large 

 as the pot all the way up, but it is far better trained against 

 a wall. 



CLINTONIA. [Lobeliaceae.] Very pretty hardy annuals. 

 They are slender-growing dwarf plants, hanging over the 

 edges of the pots, if grown in pots, but forming very beau- 

 tiful objects on the ground, being so much covered with 

 blooms as to hide the stems. Sow the seeds in pots in March ; 

 put them in a frame — if with a little warmth so much the 

 better ; set them in feeders of water until germinated, then 

 thin the plants so as to give them room, and keep them 

 growing in frames till May, when those for the borders may 

 be turned out : they will very soon flower, and have a very 

 pretty appearance. To provide a succession, some should be 

 sown in the borders about April ; these will flower when 

 those of the first sowing leave off. Many annuals may thus 

 be managed, so as to keep up a succession of bloom during 

 several mouths, by sowing at different seasons. C. pidchella, 

 the best of the two species, is a much more interesting object 

 for pot culture than nine-tenths of the plants grown in pots. 

 Peaty soil, or a light mixture of leaf-mould, loam, and sand, 

 is most proper for them. 



CLIVIA. [Amaryllidaceae.] A handsome warm green- 

 house perennial, with thick fleshy roots. Propagated by 

 division. Soil, rich sandy loam. C. nohilis, flowers red and 

 yellow. 



CLOVER. See Trifolium. 



CLUB-MOSS. See Lvcopodium. 



COB^A. [Polemoniaceae.] Greenhouse or half-hardy 



