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CTRTOCHILUM. 



should be abundantly supplied. When 

 they have ceased flowering, the supply ' 

 of ■water should be diminished ; and i 

 about June the tubers should be | 

 taken out of the ground and kept ' 

 dry till the season for planting the ' 

 following autumn. The best soil ; 

 for them is equal parts of loam and i 

 rotten manure, or leaf mould, with a 

 little peat and sand, or heath -mould. ] 

 All the kinds are propagated by seed, I 

 which they ripen in abundance ; and j 

 they all require an open airy situation. 

 Ctcloeo'thra. — LiUacece.—Bxd- 

 bous-rooted plants, natives of Cali- 

 fornia, ■with nodding flowers, like 

 those of the Fritillarias. They are 

 nearly hardy, and only require to 

 be kept dry during winter, or to 

 be taken up in autumn and re- 

 planted in spring. They flower at 

 Midsummer, 



C YCNO'CHES. — OrcJi iddcec(. — An 

 orchideous plant, commonly called 

 Swanwort, from the graceful curve 

 of the column of the flower, which 

 resembles the neck of a sv.-an. It 

 requires a very damp atmosphere, 

 and the gi-eatest heat ever applied to 

 a damp stove. For the culture, see 

 Orchideous Epiphytes. 



Cydo'>'ia. — Rosacece. — The bota- 

 nic name of the Quince tree ; and 

 now also applied to that beautiful 

 and well-known shrub \\ith bright 

 scarlet flowers formerly called 

 Pyrus ja-p6nica. Cydbnia japonica, 

 though a native of Japan, is quite 

 hardy, and will grow in any soil and 

 situation if not too much exposed. 

 It bears pruning without injury, 

 and makes a good hedge. It retains 

 its leaves nearly all the \\'inter ; and 

 in mUd seasons, and sheltered situa- 

 tions, it is almost always in flower. 

 There are three or four varieties ; 

 some with luxlf double flov.'-ers, and 

 some the flowers of which are of a 

 pale bluish coloui'. 



Cy^mps.— The GaU Fly.— A kind 



of gnat, which occasions the galls 

 on oaks, &c. The Bedeguar, a 

 disease which affects rose-trees, is 

 occasioned by Cynips rosce, a little 

 insect, not more than the twelfth of 

 an inch long, having the legs and 

 body red, tipped with black. This 

 little creature wounds the twig of 

 the rose-tree, and deposits its eggs 

 under the bark. The wound swells, 

 and forms an excresence, often tv/o 

 inches in diameter, and covered with 

 green or pink hairs, which are 

 curiously branched at their extremi- 

 ties like little masses of coral. The 

 excrescence is so ornamental that it 

 seems almost a pity to destroy it, 

 and yet, v^-hen opened, it will be 

 found to contain a great number of 

 the grubs or pupse of the fly. 



Cyxoglo'ssum. — Borafjmece. — 

 Hound's-tongue. — Pretty little bien- 

 nial and annual jjlants ; natives of 

 Europe, and requiring only the 

 common culture of plants of a similar 

 nature. Venus' s JVavel-wort was 

 formerly considered to belong to 

 this genus, but it is now removed 

 to Omphalo'des. 



Cypripe'dium. — Orchidacea'. — 

 The Ladies' Slipper. — Terrestrial or- 

 chideous plants, mostly natives of 

 North America. They should be 

 gro^wn in peat-soil in a shady border, 

 and covered with a hand-glass, or in 

 some other manner, so as to keep 

 them dry during winter. They are 

 very difficult to propagate in this 

 country, and the jjlants bought 

 in the seed shops and nurseries 

 have generally been imported from 

 America. 



Cyri'lla. — Ericdcece. — Green- 

 I house shrubs with very small white 

 I flowers. For an account of the 

 ' beautiful plant sometimes called 

 Cyrilla pulchella, see Trevira^ka, 

 or Achime'nks. 



Cybtochi'lum. — Orchiddcpce. — 

 ! Splendid Mexican Epiphytes ; which 



