CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



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CHRYSOSPLENIUM. 



interesting not only for their beauty, 

 but on account of the story told as 

 to the origin of their name. It is 

 said that Labillardiere had been 

 ■wandering in New South Wales for 

 several days in great distress for 

 water, all the springs he found be- 

 ing too brackish to drink; when, 

 at last, he and his companions found 

 a fresh-water spring, near which 

 grew some of these plants, which 1 

 LabUlardiere named Chorozema, | 

 from two Greek words, signifying to 

 dance with joy from drinking. 1 



Christmas Rose. — See Helle'- I 



BORUS. I 



Christ's Thorx. — See Paliu'- i 



RTJS. 



-„ Chrtsa'nthemum. — Compositce. 

 — The Chinese Chrysanthemum and 

 its varieties are well known, and 

 have, for many years, attracted the 

 attention of the cultivator, on ac- 

 count of the great variety of their 

 sho'RT' flowers, which are produced 

 from October to December. They 

 grow freely in any light rich soil, 

 and are readily increased by suckers, 

 division of the roots, layers, and 

 cuttings, which flower the same 

 year they are struck ; and they are 

 some of those plants that derive 

 great advantage from frequent shift- 

 ing. When this is neglected, the 

 stalks are apt to become long and 

 v.^eak, with few or no branches ; 

 and as the flowers are always ter- 

 minal, they are consequently few 

 also. Taking off the points of the 

 shoots "ndll make the plants bushy, 

 but it will have tendency to pre- 

 vent their flowering ; but repeat- 

 edly changing the pots always 

 into one only a little larger, will not 

 only make the plants bushy, but 

 induce them to flower abundantly. 

 When this mode of culture has been 

 neglected, the Chrysanthemums 

 should be planted against a wall, 

 or pegged down over a bed in the 



flower-garden ; and by slightly pro- 

 tecting them during frosty nights, 

 they will frequently continue in 

 flower till January or February. 

 The varieties are continually chang- 

 ing ; new ones being raised every 

 year ; but nearly all the kinds may 

 be classed in one or other of the 

 following seven divisions : — the Ra- 

 nunculus-flowered, the Incurved, 

 the China Aster-flowered, the Mari- 

 gold-flow^ered, the Clustered, the 

 Tasseled, and the Quilled. The 

 botanical name of the species was 

 formerly Chrt/sdnthemum sinense, 

 but it is now removed to the genus 

 Pyrethrum. The best annual Chry- 

 santhemums are C. tricolor L. ((7. 

 carinatnm Schous), with white, 

 yellow, and pui-ple flowers, and C. 

 coronarlum L. , with yellow flowers, 

 both of which are quite hardy, and 

 well worth a place in the flower- 

 garden. Seeds may be procured 

 from all the seedsmen. 



Chryse'is. — Another name for 

 Eschscho'ltzia. 



Chryso'coma. — Compositce. — 

 j Golden-Locks. — Low soft-wooded 

 I shrubs from the Cape, witli yellow 

 j flowers. They thrive well in a mix- 

 ture of loam and peat, and are readily 

 increased by cuttings. The herba- 

 ' ceous plants which vrere formerly 

 included in this genus are now 

 removed to the genera Linosyris, 

 Euthmnia, and Bigelovia. These 

 are all natives of North America, 

 and all hardy j^erennials, which will 

 grow in any common soil, and are 

 speedily propagated by division of 

 the roots. 



Chrysosple^nium. — Saxifragece. 

 — Golden Saxifrage. — Herbaceous 

 plants, with yellow flowers, natives 

 of Britain, North America, and 

 Nepal, not growing more than 4 or 

 5 inches high. They are rather dif- 

 ficult to cultivate, but succeed best 

 in a moist shady situation, near a 



