CAPPARIS. 
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CAPRIFOLIUM. 
with regard to moisture ; that is, 
never very wet, and yet never so 
dry as to cause the plants to droop 
their leaves. If ever they are al- 
lowed to droop their leaves for three 
or four hours, death is almost the | 
certain consequence; and this is. 
the reason why so many Cape 
Heaths are killed by those who will | 
not take the trouble to water them | 
regularly: To lessen the risk of | 
destruction by drought, such culti- 
vators have an outer and an inner | 
pot; the object of the former being | 
to lessen the evaporation from the 
latter. Others mix lumps of free- 
stone with the soil in the pots; and | 
these being powerful absorbers of 
moisture, retain, as it were, a re- 
serve of water for the plant to have 
recourse to when it is neglected by 
the gardener. It may be useful to 
observe, that when peat, or a mix- 
ture of sand and peat, in a pot 
where the soil has become matted | 
with roots, is once thoroughly dried, 
it is extremely difficult to moisten 
it again properly ; and hence, many 
persons, who pour water on the sur- 
face of pots containing plants in 
sandy peat, imagine that it pene- 
trates the ball of earth, and reaches 
all the -roots, while, in fact, it very 
frequently escapes between the ball 
and the pot, moistening only the 
outer surface of the ball, and leav- 
ing the great mass of roots in its 
centre quite dry. Perhaps as many 
Cape Heaths and shrubs, and Aus- 
tralian shrubs, are killed in this 
way, as Geraniums and bulbs are 
killed by over-watering. — See 
Erica. 
Ca’praris. — Capparidee. — A 
genus of rambling shrubs, natives 
of both the East and West Indies, 
and of South America. One spe- 
cies, C. spindsa, the common Ca- 
per, grows wild in the south of 
Europe, and forms in England a 
greenhouse trailer, as well as a 
most suitable plant for a conserya- 
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tive wall, remarkable in both situa. 
tions for the beauty of its flowers. 
It grows in common soil, and is 
readily propagated by cuttings ot 
the roots. A plant grew for many 
years in the garden of Camden 
House, Kensington. 
Capriro'Lium.—Caprifolidcee. a ax 
The Honeysuckle. Well-known / 
climbing plants, remarkable for the 
delightful fragrance of their flowers. 
& itélicum, the Italian Honey- 
suckle; C. Pericly'menum, the 
common Woodbine, and its vari- 
eties; and C. sempervirens, the 
|Trumpet Honeysuckle, are those 
most common in collections. The 
beautiful and very fragrant plant 
'generally called Loniccra flexuosa, 
Bot. Reg., is sometimes found un- 
der the name of Caprifolium chi- 
nénse; and the gold and silver 
Honeysuckle is generally called C, 
japonicum. Both these plants are 
natives of Japan and China, and 
| they are rather tender in British 
|gardens. They should be grown 
in a soil composed of sand, peat, 
and loam, and are propagated by 
cuttings. The Trumpet Honey- 
suckle, and C. flivum, Bot. Mag., 
should also be grown in sandy peat, 
and require a slight protection in 
severe weather; but all the other 
kinds may be grown in common 
soil, without any further care than 
training them against a wall, or 
over paling. [All the hardy honey- 
suckles grow with great vigour, and 
with the least possible care, in this 
climate. Among the most valua- 
ble, are the monthly fragrant, the 
red and the yellow trumpet, and the 
Chinese twining, Z. flecudsa. The 
latter, in addition to the beauty and 
fragrance of its blossoms, which 
are produced several times during 
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the summer and autumn, is also ~ 
highly desirable for the rich, dark 
| hue of its nearly evergreen foliage, 
| and the circumstance of its not be- 
ing liable to the attacks of insects, 
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