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natives of the dry woods of N. America. 

 C. maculata (Spotted Winter-green) 

 has small leathery leaves variegated 

 with white, 3 to 6 inches high, and is 

 pretty for a half-shady and mossy, but 

 not wet, place in the rock garden, with 

 such plants as the dwarf Andromeda 

 and the Pyrola, and succeeds best in 

 very sandy leaf-soil. C. umbellata, 

 with glossy, unspotted leaves and some- 

 what larger reddish flowers, is also 

 suited for like positions. 



CHIMONANTHUS (Winter Sweet). 

 C. fragrans is a lovely shrub, which in 

 our country enjoys a wall, flowers in 

 December and January, of delicious 

 fragrance ; brownish-yellow, marked 



sandy loam ; in early summer it bears 

 long clusters of white flowers, with 

 petals long and narrow like a fringe. 

 N. America. 'A newer species is the 

 Chinese C. retusus, which is not so 

 pretty, though its flowers are white 

 and fringed. 



CHIONODOXA (Snow Glory}. 

 Beautiful early spring-flowering bulbs, 

 flowering with the Snowdrop, and later, 

 and forming a precious addition to our 

 garden flora, growing and increasing 

 freely in most soils. It is well to 

 arrange successive groups in sunny 

 and cool parts of the same garden. 

 The bulbs should be planted not less 

 than 3 inches deep. 





with purple inside ; and precious for 

 gathering for the house. The best 

 variety is grandiflora, its flowers being 

 longer and more open, but the shrub 

 varies a little from seed. It does best 

 on a wall with a southern or western 

 aspect. A few shoots with blooms 

 upon them placed in a room last a long 

 time, and diffuse their pleasant fra- 

 grance. In light or warm soils in the 

 south it thrives as a bush, needing no 

 pruning or other care ; best on a sunny 

 bank. On walls, moderate pruning is 

 needed, mainly shortening rampant 

 shoots and removing weak wood. 

 Layers and seed. Japan. 



CHIONANTHUS (Fringe Tree). A 

 beautiful, small, hardy tree of the Olive 

 family, well grown in this country in 



C. GIGANTEA (Iridescent Snow Glory).- 

 A very handsome plant of robust habit, 

 with broader leaves and taller spikes than 

 in any other kind. The colour of the 

 flowers is soft violet or porcelain blue with 

 a small white centre, coming some weeks 

 later than the early kinds. A white form 

 of this plant is now to be had, and a 

 variety albo-rosea, with flowers delicately 

 tinged with rose, but nothing can surpass 

 in lovely and changing colour the wild 

 form. 



C. LUCILI^. Opening from early in 

 February, with starry flowers an inch or 

 more across and in many shades, from 

 pale to deep blue, shading to a white 

 centre. It is found in three or four well- 

 marked forms : alba, a white kind with 

 large flowers, found wild with the blue 

 form, but scarce in gardens. Rosea is a 

 scarce variety bearing pink flowers ; 

 pallida has flowers of a very light blue ; 



