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are increased by cuttings in sand, in a brisk hot-bed, during 

 the spring or summer. C. ignea, better known as platycentra, 

 an almost ever-blooming shrubby species, with bright scarlet 

 tubes, just tipped with a ring of black and white, is well 

 suited for the flower-garden during summer. It scarcely 

 grows more than a foot high in the course of a season : but 

 the larger the plants, the better they look ; so that the 

 old plants should be preserved. 



C. ignea (fiery) ; greenhouse sub-shrub ; 18 inches ; flowers 

 scarlet and black, all the year ; Mexico ; 1845. C. Melvillii 

 (Melville's) ; stove sub-shrub ; 3 feet ; flowers scarlet and 

 green, in July ; Guinea ; 1823. C. miniata (vermilion) ; green- 

 house sub-shrub ; 18 inches ; flowers scarlet and purple, in 

 June; South America; 1845. C. procumbens (procumbent) ; 

 hardy annual ; i foot ; flowers pale-purple, in July ; Mexico ; 

 1816. C. silenoides (silene-like) ; hardy annual; 18 inches; 

 flowers lilac-edged purple, in July ; Mexico ; 1836. C. strigil- 

 losa (coarse-haired) ; greenhouse sub-shrub ; 1 8 inches; flowers 

 red and yellow, in June ; Mexico ; 1844. C. viscosissinia (clam- 

 miest) ; hardy annual ; 18 inches ; flowers pale-purple, in July ; 

 America ; 1776. 



C. eminent is of no value as a bedding plant. 



CUPRESSUS. Cypress. [Pinaceas.] Handsome evergreen 

 shrub-like trees, mostly of pyramidal growth. They are 

 mostly large trees when full grown, but, being erect-growing, 

 may be kept for many years in a moderate space. Good 

 loamy soil is best for them ; and they are best increased by 

 seeds, but sometimes by cuttings and by grafting. 



ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS. C. sempervirens (common ev- 

 ergreen) ; C. Lusitanica (cedar of Goa) ; C. torulosa (Bhotan 

 cypress) ; C. thurifera (frankincense-bearing) ; C. funebris (fu- 

 nebral) ; C. Goveniana (Gowen's) ; C. macrocarpa (large- 

 fruited) ; C. Udheana (Udhe's). 



Most of the species are tender in the Northern States. 



