128 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



are increased by cuttings in sand, in a brisk hot-bed, during 

 the spring or summer. C. ignea, better known 2,s platy centra^ 

 an ahnost ever-blooming shrubby species, with bright scarlet 

 tubes, just tipped with a ring of black and white, is well 

 suited for the flower-garden during summer. It scarcely 

 grows more than a foot high in the course of a season : but 

 the larger the plants, the better they look; so that the 

 old plants should be preserved. 



C. ignea (fiery) ; greenhouse sub-shrub ; i8 inches ; •flowers 

 scarlet and black, all the year ; Mexico ; 1845. C. 'Melvillii 

 (Melville's) ; stove sub-shrub ; 3 feet ; flowers scarlet and 

 green, in July ; Guinea; 1823. C. miiiiata (vermihon) ; green- 

 house sub-shrub ; 18 inches ; flowers scarlet and purple, in 

 June; South America; 1845. C. procuuibens (procumbent); 

 hardy annual ; i foot ; flowers pale-purple, in July ; Mexico ; 

 1 8 16. C. silenoides (silene-hke) ; hardy annual ; 18 inches ; 

 flowers lilac-edged purple, in July ; Mexico ; 1836. C. strigil- 

 losa (coarse-haired) ; greenhouse sub-shrub ; 18 inches ; flowers 

 red and yellow, in June ; Mexico ; 1844. C. viscosissima (clam- 

 miest) ; hardy annual ; 18 inches ; flowers pale-purple, in July ; 

 America ; 1 776. 



C. eminens is of no value as a bedding plant. 



CuPRESSUs. Cypress. [Pinaceae.] Handsome evergreen 

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

 mostly large trees \vhen 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 b}'' 

 seeds, but sometimes by cuttings and by grafting. 



Orxa:\iextal Evergreens. — C. sempervirens (common ev- 

 ergreen) ; C. Lzisitanica (cedar of Goa) ; C. tonilosa (Bhotan 

 cypress) ; C. tlmrifera (frankincense-bearing) ; C. fiinebris (fu-^ 

 nebral) ; C. Goveiiiana (Gowen's) ; C. viacrocarpa (large- 

 fruited) ; C. Udheana (Udhe's). 



Most of the species are tender in the Northern States. 



