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T. Barnes, ruby-crimson. By sowing 

 seeds in slight warmth in February, 

 single - flowered varieties may be 

 flowered the same year, a good strain 

 yielding many useful varieties. 



EARLY FLOWERING SORTS. These 

 are valuable alike for the border and 

 for cutting, and afford a wealth of 

 bloom of diversified colouring when it 

 is much needed in the garden. Few 

 plants respond more promptly than 

 these to generous cultivation, and none 

 are more worthy of it. The mistakes 

 usually made are those of rooting the 

 cuttings too early in the year and 

 employing the gross sucker growth so 

 prevalent in autumn for propagation. 

 The first of these results is the young 

 plants becoming hide-bound before the 

 planting season arrives, and rarely 

 developing afterwards, the suckers pro- 

 ducing their own characteristic growth, 

 which never flowers. February to 

 April is early enough to root cuttings 

 of these varieties, and given freshly- 

 made shoots 2 or 3 inches in length, no 

 difficulty is experienced. It is impor- 

 tant, however, that the cuttings be 

 potted or transplanted so soon as 

 rooted, so that sturdy examples for 

 putting out in May are the result. 

 Those named flower from August to 

 October : Bronze Goacher ; Cottage 

 Pink ; Crawford Pink ; Crawford 

 White ; Crawford Yellow ; Dorothy 

 Humphrey, pink ; Goacher 's Crimson ; 

 Harry Thorpe, rich yellow ; Horace 

 Martin, golden yellow ; Mme. C. 

 Desgrange, maize to white ; Mme. 

 Marie Masse, lilac ; G. Werning, soft 

 yellow ; Mrs J. Fielding, reddish ; 

 Carrie, yellow ; Polly, orange-yellow ; 

 Crimson Polly ; Mrs Ward, creamy- 

 white ; Nina Blick, red and bronze ; 

 October, gold ; Elenore, rose-pink ; 

 Betty Spark, deep pink ; Bronze 

 Betty Spark ; Crimson Marie Masse ; 

 Decorator, bronze ; and Diadem, rich 

 wine-red. 



POMPONS. Anastasia, light purple ; 

 Blushing Bride, rose-lilac ; Flora, gol- 

 den ; Golden Fleece, golden ; L'Ami 

 Conderchet, primrose ; Little Bob, 

 crimson ; Mignon, Mr Selby, Mrs E. 

 Stacey, yellow ; Orange Pet. 



C. LATIFOLIUM is the largest of the 

 Ox-eye Daisies, with fleshy, coarsely ser- 

 rated, broad leaves. The seeds have large 

 flower-heads, 3 to 4 inches across ; a 

 strong growing species requiring plenty of 

 room. Division and seeds. A number of 

 varieties of this and the following species 

 have been raised, which have value as 

 border plants and for cutting. 



C. MAXIMUM. The leaves of C. maxi- 

 mum are bluntly serrated, stems more or 

 less branched, each carrying a single white 

 flower-head. This vigorous plant has 

 broken into a number of varieties of recent 

 years, some with thread-like petals, others 

 with larger and strap-shaped petals. Most 

 of them are worth growing, but being 

 very vigorous should not be planted near 

 to delicate or fragile plants. Daviesii, 

 King Edward VII., and Mrs C. Lothian 

 Bell are some of the finest sorts. Mari- 

 time Alps. 



C. ZAWADSKII, of tufted habit, bears 

 numerous rose-tinted flowers all through 

 the summer months. 



C. SEGETUM (Corn Marigold). A showy 

 yellow native plant, as worthy of cultiva- 

 tion as many an exotic, and in certain 

 cases worth growing for cutting. Treat as 

 a hardy annual, preferring autumn sowing, 

 though it may be sown in spring also. 



Chrysobactron Hookeri. See BUL- 



BINELLA. 



Chrysurus. See LAMARCKIA. 



CICHORIUM (Chicory}. A pretty 

 native plant, from 2 to 5 feet high. 

 C. Intybus, bearing in summer and 

 autumn handsome blue flowers. It 

 is worth introducing as a wild plant 

 into localities where it is not common. 

 It is a rampant grower, and will take 

 care of itself even in arable crops, but 

 it dislikes heavy and cold soils. The 

 seed may be sown on rubbish heaps 

 and in stony places, old quarries, and 

 by roadsides. 



CIMICIFUGA ( B ugbane}. Plants of 

 the Crowfoot order, nearly allied to the 

 Baneberry. They are tall, hand- 

 some, herbaceous plants. C. cordifolia 

 attains 3 to 4 feet high, giving erect 

 feathery plumes of whitish flowers. 

 It is a good border plant. C. race- 

 mosa (Black Snakeroot), 3 to 8 feet 

 high, with feathery racemes of white 

 blossoms i to 3 feet long, which, being 

 slender, droop gracefully ; but the 

 plants generally are not of much garden 

 value. They are of easy culture in 

 rich soil, and may be used as groups 

 in the wild garden. The flowers have 

 an offensive odour. Division. N. 

 America and Asia. C. simplex, from 

 Japan, is one of the most elegant, the 

 flowers pure white in erect spikes. 

 September. 



Cineraria maritima. See SENECIO. 



CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA (Cam- 

 phor Laurel). That this beautiful 

 sub-tropical evergreen tree is hardier 

 than often supposed is proved by Mrs 



