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CRYPTOMERIA. Japan Cedar. [Pinacese.] A very 

 ornamental evergreen tree, thriving best in pure and rather 

 sandy loam, and in elevated situations. Seeds have been 

 largely imported, from which the many thousands of young 

 plants now dispersed through the country have been pro- 

 duced. It is also propagated by cuttings and grafting ; but 

 seeds make far better plants, and these have been already 

 ripened in England. C. Japonica is a fine evergreen, and a 

 dwarf-growing variety has been imported from the north of 

 China. 



CUMMINGIA. [Liliaceje.] Beautiful half-hardy bulbs, 

 requiring a light rich mixture of loam, peat, leaf-mould, and 

 sand, and a sheltered situation, such as a frame, or the foot 

 of a wall with a south or west aspect. Increased by offsets. 



CUNILA. [Lamiacese.] Hardy herbaceous perennials. 

 Peat and loam. Propagated by division. G. coccinea, flowers 

 scarlet. C. Manana, flowers red. 



CUPHEA. [Lythraceae.] Pretty shrubby or herbaceous 

 perennials and procumbent annuals, comprising both tender 

 and hardy species. The hardy annual kinds should be sown 

 along with the annuals in March on a slight hotbed, or in 

 frames, for the earliest bloom, and again in April and May 

 in the open borders : they prefer a rich light soil. The green- 

 house and tender species grow^ in a mixture of two parts leaf- 

 mould to one of loam, with a sixth of sand added, and are 

 increased by cuttings in sand in a brisk hotbed during the 

 spring or summer. 



CUPRESSUS. Ctpeess. [Pinace^.l Handsome hardy 

 evergreen shrub-like trees, mostly of pyramidal growth. They 

 are mostly large trees when full grown, but being erect- 

 growing, may be kept for many years in a moderate space. 

 Good loamy soil is best for them, and they are best increased 

 by seeds, but sometimes by cuttings and by grafting. The 

 chief ornamental evergreens are C. sempervireiis (common 

 evergreen); C. toridosa {Bhotsm Cypress): C. thiirifera (frank- 

 incense-bearing) ; C. funehris (funebral) ; C. macrocarpa (large- 

 fruited) ; C. majestica, and C. aromatica. 



CURRANT. See Ribes. 



CYANANTHUS. [Polemoniacege.] Pretty hardy herba- 

 ceous plants, requiring sandy peat soil. Increased by 



