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the earth around each plant, in the form 

 of'a basin.) 



" Before removing the plants from the 

 beds, murk as many of the strongest as 

 the frame will hold, allowing eighteen 

 inches square to each plant ; there per- 

 mit them to remain undisturbed, re- 

 taining the sasiies, and treating them as 

 if in a hot-bed. They will come for- 

 ward before tliose transplanted, and 

 frequently do well, when the latter fail. 

 We would advise that the plants to be 

 put out, be divided, one half placed on 

 a warm border with southern exposure, 

 under the lee of a building or board 

 fence, the others in an open compart- 

 ment of the garden. — For this reason, 

 if the spring prove cold, those on the 

 border will be hastened and protected 

 from late frosts, and if the early part of 

 summer prove dry and hot, those in the 

 open compartment will be more favour- 

 ably situated. Hand glasses, flower 

 pots, or boxes put over them at night, 

 during cool weather, are highly advan- 

 tageous. When they begin to show signs 

 of heading, break a leaf over them, to 

 protect from the direct rays of the sun. 



" To force Caulijlowcrs ; make a hot- 

 bed at close of winter, planting them 

 therein, from the cold bed or frame, at 

 the distances of fifteen inches. A pret- 

 ty free admission of air is necessary, 

 otherwise they will advance too rapid- 

 ly, and become weak and spindling; 

 during mild days in April, the sash 

 should be drawn off, and as the wea- 

 ther becomes warm, plentiful irrigation 

 should be administered. 



" JMte Caulijlowers are sown at the 

 same time with the Broccoli ; they head 

 as it does, and re()uire similar treat- 

 ment, though not so certain to succeed." 

 — Rural Register. 



CEAXOTHUS. Twenty-two species. 

 Chiefly stove or green-house evergreen 

 shrubs ; some are hardy deciduous. C 

 perennis is herbaceous. Cuttings. Peat 

 and loam. 



CECIDOMYIA. C. nigra. Black 

 Gall Midge. This insect lays its eggs 

 in the blossom of the pear early in the 

 spring, and the larva; thence born con- 

 sume the pulp of the embryo fruit. 

 Sometimes they eat their way through 

 its skin, and at others remain within its 

 core until it falls. 



CECROPIA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



CEDAR OF GOA. Cupressus lusi- 

 tanica. 



CEDAR OF LEBANON. Cedrus Li- 

 bani. 



CEDRELA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Cuttings. Light loam. 



CEDRUS. Cedar. Two species. 

 Hardy evergreen trees. Seeds. C. 

 deodara, grafts readily on the common 

 larch. Sandy loam. 



CELASTRUS. Twenty-seven 

 species. Chiefly green-house or stove 

 evergreen shrubs, trees, or climbing 

 plants. C. bullatus and C. scandens, 

 are hardy deciduous climbers. Ripe 

 cuttings. Sandy loam' and peat. 



CELERLVC, or TURNIP-ROOTED 

 CELERY {ylpium rapaceum). 



Time and Mode of Solving. — It may 

 be sown in March, April, and May, to 

 atford successive plantations in June, 

 July, and August. The seed must be 

 sown in drills six inches apart, and kept 

 regularly watered every evening in dry 

 weather, otherwise it will not germi- 

 nate. The bed must be kept free from 

 weeds, and when about three inches 

 high, they may be pricked out into 

 another border in rows three inches 

 apart each way ; giving water abund- 

 antly and freciuently : by adopting the 

 precautions mentioned in the cultiva- 

 tion of celery, the same seed bed will 

 afford two or three distinct prickings. 

 In the neighbourhood of Dresden, where 

 this vegetable is grown in great perfec- 

 tion, they sow in February or March, in 

 a hot-bed under glass, and the plants 

 are removed in April, when two or 

 three inches high to another hot-bed, 

 and set an inch and a half apart. The 

 fineness of the plants is there attributed 

 to the abundance of water with which 

 they are supplied. 



When live or six inches high, they 

 are fit'for final planting; they must be 

 set in rows two feet asunder, and the 

 plants eight inches apart, on the level 

 ground, or in drills drawn with the hoe 

 at most three inches deep, as they do 

 not require earthing up. In dry weather 

 they should be watered plentifully, at 

 least every other evening. The only 

 additional attention they require, is to 

 keep them free from weeds. They 

 require a very light fertile soil. 



Saving Seed. — The directions given 

 for saving the seed of Celery, are in 

 every respect applicable to this vege- 

 table. 



