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fornian annuals. They may, how- | 
ever, be sown in spring; and as, | 
when this is the case, they are apt | 
to become drawn up, the general | 
appearance of the bed is much im- | 
proved by sowing Mignionette with | 
the Clarkia seeds in March or| 
April. 
Crary.—A kind of Satyvia. 
Cray.—See Earrus. 
Crayro'nra.—Portuldcee.—Har- | 
dy herbaceous plants, some annual | 
and some perennial, with pretty | 
pink and white flowers, but having | 
rather a weedy appearance. ‘They | 
grow best in a peat border, and are | 
ple flowers, of easy culture in any 
light rich soil. 
CLEeRopDE'NpruM. — Verbendcee, 
—Very ornamental stove shrubs, 
chiefly natives of the ‘Tropics. 
They all grow freely in a light rich 
soil, composed of two parts of loam, 
one of rotten dung, and one of peat. 
They require frequent shifting from 
small pots to larger ones, to make 
them flower freely. They strike 
readily from cuttings of the young 
wood planted under a hand-glass ; 
or cuttings of the roots planted in a 
pot, with their tops just above the 
surface of the mould, and plunged 
increased by seeds, which some-, in a hotbed, will root readily. The 
times ripen in abundance. 
Cie’matis. — Ranunculaceae. — 
Half-hardy and hardy climbers ; 
shrubby and _ herbaceous; with 
white and purple flowers. 
are all most desirable plants, of the 
easiest culture in any light rich 
soil; and readily propagated by 
cuttings of the young wood, or seeds, 
which are frequenily ripened plen- 
tifully. C. florida, with white flow- 
ers; MSieboldtii or bicolor, with 
white and purple flowers, and C. 
aztrea or cerilea, with beautiful 
violet blue flowers, are among the 
handsomest of conservatory climb- 
ers; and under glass, they frequent- 
ly come into blossom early in March. 
In the open air, they do not flower 
till May or June. C. aziirea is as 
hardy as the common wild kinds ; 
but the others are sometimes killed 
to the ground by frost. C. viticélia, 
and its varieties, C. flammula, C. 
Hendersonii, and C.. cylindrica, 
are all quite hardy, and form most 
beautiful objects when trained over 
They | 
most desirable species are C. fra- 
| grans, with pink flowers; C. panicu- 
ldtum, and C. squamadtum, with 
scarlet flowers, and C. macrophy'l- 
lum, with white flowers. Several 
of the species were formerly called 
| Volkam?ria. 
Cre‘rHra.— Ericee.-—Hardy and 
half-hardy shrubs, with white flow- 
-ers; of which C. arborea forms a 
_very handsome small tree, when 
planted out in the free soil in a con- 
_servatory, or in a sheltered situation 
in the open air, producing a great 
_ profusion of spikes of white flowers 
from August to October. C. alni- 
| folia, and some other species, are 
| qtite hardy. Ail the species thrive 
_well in a mixture of leam and peat, 
_and they are all readily increased 
by layers, cuttings, or seeds. 
Cuia'nruus.— Leguminise.— C. 
puniceus, the crimson Glory Pea, 
is a magnificent half-hardy shrub, 
'with bright crimson flowers, a na- 
tive of New Zealand. It grows 
_very freely in rich loam, if its roots 
lattice-work, or baskets in the flow-| are allowed sufficient room; and 
er-garden ; and no garden, however it generally thrives most when 
small, ought to be without one or planted against the back wall of a 
more of these species. conservatory, or against a south 
Cie0'me. —Capparidee.—Splen- | wall in the open air, requiring only 
did stove shrubs, annuals and bien- the protection of a mat in winter. 
nials, with one or two half-hardy | Cuttings planted in pots in the au- 
annuals, with white, rose, and pur-|tumn, and kept in the shady part 
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