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quite dry, and winter in a dry, airy 

 part of the green-house. In spring, 

 again remove to the pelargonium- 

 house, and use a very little water, 

 which increase as the season advances. 

 " By the end of the second summer 

 they will have grown to the size of 

 good blooming plants ; and in the 

 autumn they should be placed out in a 

 warm airy part of the garden, to ripen 

 the shoots thoroughly. 



" About the usual time of housing 

 other green-house plants they should 

 be again dried, and put, as before, in 

 the green-house ; place the first for 

 forcing in the intermediate stove about 

 the 1st of February, and continue a 

 succession, till they bloom in the green- [ 

 house, which is about June. 



" Such plants will bear the greatest ^ 

 extremes of dryness and moisture, and 

 without proper attention is paid at the 

 season of rest to keep them quite cool 

 and dry, they never will bloom proper- 

 ly. The forcing must be commenced 

 at a low temperature, and water at first 

 given sparingly. 



" When they have begun to grow 

 freely, and the bloom-buds are well 

 started, they must be watered, not by a 

 continued dripping, but by copious ap- 

 plications, and at intervals of a fort- 

 night, during the growing season, with 

 liquid manure. 



" Wlien the bloom-buds are sufH- 

 ciently advanced, thin out all those 

 which are large and small, leaving 

 them as near one size as possible, and 

 at proper distance to allow the blooms 

 to e.xpand. When they have flowered, 

 keep the plants rather dry for a short 

 time, and place them in a cool shady 

 part of the green-house, or under a 

 north wall. In a few weeks they will 

 again assume their usual firm and 

 healthy appearance, and begin to grow ; 

 and then clear off all the decayed 

 blooms and seed-pods, and place the 

 plants for the autumn in the garden in 

 a south aspect, where there is a free 

 circulation of air, giving them a good 

 supply of water ; after this they are 

 moved to the green-house and treated 

 as before. Train them to iron stakes, 

 made to fit the outside of the pots or 

 tubs, and fasten them with wire. At- 

 tention should be paid to early training, 

 and to stopping all shoots as soon as 

 they attain tlie required height ; all use- 

 less side and bottom shoots rub off, and 



occasionally some of the old shoots cut 

 out, and replace with young ones." — 

 Gard. Chron. 



CADIA purpurea. Stove ever-green 

 shrub. Cuttings. Light loamy soil. 



C.T:LESTINA. Three species.— 

 Green-house and half-hardy perennials. 

 C. micrantha is a half-hardy evergreen 

 shrub. Seeds. Common open soil. 



CiENOPTERIS. Five species. Stove 

 and green-house ferns. Division. Peat 

 and loam. 



CiESALPINA. Twenty-one species. 

 Stove evergreen shrubs or trees. C. 

 scandens is a climber ; C. gilliesii is 

 deciduous. Seeds. Sand, peat and 

 open loam. 



C.i^SIA vittata. Green-house tuber- 

 ous-rooted perennial. Seeds. Sandy 

 loam and peat. 



CALABASH. Crcscentia. 

 CALABA TREE. Calophyllum 

 calaba. 



CALADENIA. Ten species. Half- 

 hardy, or stove orchids. Division. 

 Peat, loam, and sand. 



CALADIUM. Twenty-eight species. 

 Chiefly stove herbaceous perennials or 

 evergreen shrubs. Tubers. Rich soil. 

 Some grow best in water ; C. simsii is 

 a climber. 



C A L A M I N T H A. Nine species. 

 Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials ; 

 two are evergreen shrubs. Suckers. 

 Light loam. 



CALAMPELIS scabra. Half-hardy 

 evergreen climber. Cuttings. Light 

 loam. 



CALAMUS. Six species. Palms. 

 Seeds. Rich sandy loam. A moist at- 

 mosphere suits them. 



CALANDRINIA. Seven species. 

 Stove, green-house, or hardy herbaceous 

 plants. Seeds or cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



C.\LANTHE. Nine species. Stove 

 or green-house orchids. Division. Peat 

 and loam. 



CALASHEA. Eleven species. Stove 

 herbaceous perennials. Division. Sandy 

 peat. 



CALATHIAN VIOLET. Gentiana 

 pneumonanthe. 



CALCAREOUS SOIL is a soil in 

 which chalk (carbonate of lime) pre- 

 dominates. When in great excess it 

 renders the colour a near approach to 

 white, in proportion to that e.\ce.-s. No 

 soil is productive which does not con- 

 tain some chalk, or in which it exceeds 



