CHEIRANTHUS. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. CHIMAPHILA. 



cliffs. It loves a wall better than any 

 garden ; it grows coarsely in garden 

 soil, but forms a dwarf enduring bush 

 on an old wall if planted in mortar, 

 and grows even on walls quite new. 

 No variety is unworthy of cultivation, 

 and the choice old garden kinds the 

 double yellow, double purple, double 

 orange, dark, etc. are worthy of a 

 place among the finest border plants. 



The double perennials are the yellow, 

 dark crimson, red, and dwarf yellow. 

 The yellow is most common, and a 

 beautiful clear-coloured kind it is, a 

 great favourite with cottagers, who 

 propagate it by putting in slips about 

 the time the plants are in flower. It 

 can be propagated freely by means of 

 slips put in under hand-lights in sharp 

 sandy soil, and the plants will flower 

 the next spring. The old dark crimson 

 is now almost extinct ; in colour the 

 flowers are almost black, and very 

 striking ; the dwarf yellow has flowers 

 of a dull, almost buff tint ; the Raby 

 Castle variety is valuable and sturdy. 



Many persons sow seed of Cheiran- 

 thus too late in June and July, 

 instead of April and May. If dry 

 weather follows close on the sowing, 

 or after the plants have grown 2 or 

 3 inches, they receive a check, and 

 instead of being dwarf, vigorous, and 

 bushy they are thin and poor. The 

 winter will sometimes injure the Wall- 

 flower severely, especially when very 

 severe frost follows close on heavy 

 rains, and the stronger and better 

 rooted the plants are the more likely 

 are they to stand the weather. The 

 plants used for filling beds should 

 have been once transplanted at least, 

 because the moving induces them to 

 throw out fibry roots near the surface, 

 and they can be lifted with soil adhering 

 to them. When the Wallflower is 

 allowed to grow where it is sown, a 

 strong tap-root is formed, which 

 strikes deep into the soil, and but few 

 surface roots are put forth. In trans- 

 planting from the seed-beds, it is well 

 to pinch off the tap-root, and thereby 

 induce fibrous roots. 



C. ALLIONII. Said to be a hybrid. 

 Flowers long and well in my garden. 



C. ALPINUS is a sub-shrubby alpine 

 Wallflower from Scandinavia, forming 

 bushes nearly i foot high, covered in May 

 with clusters of sulphury-yellow flowers. 

 Good for rock garden. 



C. LINAFOLIA. A new species from 

 Spain, and is one of the best rock plants 

 introduced. 



C. PAMELA PERSHOUSE is a hybrid of 



the above and C. Allionii. A lovely plant 

 of perennial habit, bearing the clear orange 

 flowers of the last-named species in hand- 

 some heads. C. Marshalli is also a fine 

 perennial hybrid sort with flowers of rich 

 orange in large heads. Both are sub- 

 shrubby. Increase by cuttings. 



All these perennials prefer dry soil 

 during winter, or a place on rough 

 stone walls. Propagation is by cut- 

 tings, and top dressing with fine soil 

 often induces the summer wood to 

 root freely, and by autumn a good 

 stock can be had. 



C H E L N E ( Turtle-head] . N. 

 American plants nearly allied to Pent- 

 stemon, the species in cultivation are 

 handsome border plants, flowering in 

 late summer and in autumn. C. Lyoni 

 grows from 2 to 3 feet high, forms a 

 dense mass of stems, with deep green 

 foliage, from July to September bearing 

 dense clusters of showy pink blossoms. 

 C. obliqua is taller and more slender, 

 but the colour of the typical form is a 

 richer pink, and there is a white- 

 flowered variety. Both are of easy 

 culture, thriving in open borders of 

 good deep soil, and increased by seeds, 

 cuttings, or division of the roots. 

 These plants, though bearing pretty 

 flowers, and free in growth, are not 

 of high garden value. 



CHENOPODIUM (Goosefoof). An- 

 nuals or biennials, few of much garden 

 value, except C. Atriplicis, a vigorous 

 Chinese annual, with erect reddish 

 stem, slightly branched, over 3 feet 

 in height, and with its young shoots 

 and leaves covered with a rosy-violet 

 powder, pretty in foliage in any soil. 

 C. scoparium (Belvedere) is a graceful 

 annual plant, like a miniature Cypress 

 in form, and worth a place among 

 curious annual plants. C. Blitum 

 capitatum (Strawberry- blite) is a hardy 

 annual, growing from i to 2 feet high, 

 the flowers small, followed by high- 

 coloured fruit calyxes resembling small 

 Strawberries. Sow in April in the 

 open air. 



CHILOPSIS LINEARIS (Flowering 

 Willow}. A very pretty flowering 

 shrub from the warmest parts of Texas, 

 and hence only suited to warm and 

 sheltered shore gardens. Its slender 

 branches of 10 to 20 feet bear narrow 

 leaves like .a Willow, and an abundance 

 of handsome lilac trumpet-flowers, 

 i to 2 inches long, and continue as long 

 as the warm season lasts. 



CHIMAPHILA ( Pipsissewa) . Small 

 shrubby plants of the Heather order, 



