CEANOTHUS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. CEDRONELLA. 



fine blue, and growing freely in borders 

 and margins of shrubberies. There is 

 a white variety. Catananche is easily 

 grown in any soil, and quickly raised 

 from seed. S. Europe. 



CEANOTHUS (Mountain Sweet). 

 Beautiful shrubs of the Buckthorn 

 family, some hardy enough on light 

 soils in sunny places to endure our 

 climate, even as bush plants, though 

 the majority form good wall plants. 

 In all the kinds the flowers are small, 

 but abundant. As wall shrubs it is 

 best to prune them in April ; and as 

 all the sorts flower on the shoots of the 

 current year's growth, from one to 

 three eyes of the preceding year's wood 

 should be left, reserving, or at most 

 only topping, such shoots as are 

 required for filling up the open spaces 

 on the wall. Most of the introduced 



Catananche carrulea.. 



kinds are of free growth in warm soil, 

 and they flower most freely in sunny 

 exposures. As they are for the most 

 part natives of the Pacific slope of 

 N. Ameiica no one should attempt 

 their culture except in warm soil. The 

 following are distinct and pretty : 



C. AMERICANUS (New Jersey Tea). 

 Though one of the hardiest, this thrives 

 best against a wall, and in a dry porous 

 soil ; the flowers, in succession from about 

 the middle of June till August, white. 

 E. America. 



C. AZUREUS. From the temperate 

 regions of Mexico, where it grows as a 

 straggling bush about 10 feet high. It 

 is one of our prettiest wall shrubs, flower- 

 ing abundantly in dry, sunny situations, 

 the flowers bright blue, from June to 



September. C. pallidus is a handsome 

 variety, with pale blue flowers. The 

 result of crossing with this species may be 

 seen in such lovely shrubs as C. Gloire des 

 Versailles, Arnoldii, Lucie Simon, Theo- 

 dore Froebel, Bertinii, President Reveil, 

 Lucie Moser, and others, all of which 

 have flowers in large plumy clusters, 

 some white, others rose, but mostly of 

 some shade of blue. 



C. DENTATUS is an elegant little evergreen 

 shrub, rarely higher than about 3 feet. 

 The flowers, which appear in May or 

 June, are deep blue, and continue the 

 greater part of the season. 



C. DIVARICATUS grows as a dense broad 

 evergreen bush of about 10 feet high. It 

 is a free-growing handsome wall plant, 

 flowering from May to autumn, the flowers 

 a bright blue. 



C. PAPILLOSUS is a pretty little species 

 from the mountains of California, where 

 it is a densely-branched straggling bush 

 6 to 10 feet high. The panicles of pale 

 blue flowers are borne on long foot-stalks 

 from the sides of the young shoots. Like 

 the other kinds, it loves the protecting 

 of a wall, on which it blooms in summer. 



C. RIGIDUS is a sub-evergreen, or in 

 sheltered places an evergreen, rarely 

 exceeding 6 feet in height, the branches 

 stiff and wiry ; the flowers, in clusters 

 on the sides of the young shoots, are deep 

 purple, in April and May. 



C. VEITCHIANUS is one of the best kinds, 

 the flowers of a rich deep blue, in dense 

 clusters at the ends of leafy branches. G. 



C. VERRUCOSUS forms a thickly branched 

 evergreen bush about 6 feet high. As a 

 wall plant it is of free growth, and has a 

 good effect, the flowers coming in May 

 and during the summer month,s, borne in 

 corymbs along the whole length of the 

 young branches, often so profusely as to 

 hide the foliage. 



CEDRELA. C. sinensis is a Chinese 

 tree not yet common in gardens. The 

 largest trees I have seen are about 

 30 feet high. The tree is chiefly note- 

 worthy for the large pinnate leaves it; 

 bears. It has small yellowish flowers 

 arranged in great numbers in pendent 

 clusters said to be agreeably scented. 

 It promises to be a graceful lawn tree, 

 but has not been long enough in the 

 country yet to speak with certainty 

 of its hardiness, although we see it 

 flourishing in unlikely places. 



CEDRONELLA (Balm of Gilead) is- 

 a distinct, half - bushy herb of the 

 Sage order, C. triphylla having leaves 

 with a pungent but grateful odour, in 

 our country 2^ to 4 feet high, varying 

 much according to soil, and not quite 

 hardy, but living out of doors most 

 winters if in dry free soil and planted 

 against walls. Seed. 



