CHOROZEMA. 



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CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



dew. Chorozemas are subject to attacks 

 of red spider and mildew. The best 

 remedy is sulphur and water vigorously 

 and plentifully supplied. Take a plant 

 and lay it on its side in the open air, then 

 with a syringe wash it thoroughly; after 

 watering, dust it with sulphur, and repeat 

 the dressing until the pest is destroyed. 



Varieties. The following are some of 

 the most distinct and beautiful of the series 

 which are met with in cultivation 



C. angustifolium, a remarkably graceful shrub, 

 with long, slender, and somewhat scrambling 

 stem, having linear acute leaves with recurved 

 margins, and racemes of pretty flowers, of which 

 the standard is orange-yellow and the wings 

 crimson-purple. Flowers in March and April. 

 Height ij feet. This variety was formerly called 

 Dillwynia Gly chief olia. 



C. cordatum, an elegant dwarf shrub, with 

 many slender branches, clothed with sessili- 

 cordate, obtuse, spiny-toothed leaves, and 

 bearing the flowers in more or less drooping 

 racemes. They are orange in the standard, 

 with scarlet or crimson wings, sometimes scarlet 

 with purple. Flowers in March and April. 

 Height i foot. 



C. Dicksoni, a handsome dwarf bushy-growing 

 shrub, furnished with narrow leaves, and bearing 

 a profusion of beautiful dull scarlet and yellow 

 flowers. Flowers from March to September. 

 Height 3 feet. 



C. diversifolium, a very beautiful small shrub, 

 with slender, twining or scrambling stems, the 

 leaves of which are elliptic, lanceolate, obpvate, 

 or cuneate, and the flowers pale orange in the 

 standard, tinged with crimson, the wings being 

 crimson ; they grow in long drooping racemes. 

 Flowers from April to July. Introduced 1839. 



C. Henchmanni, a hairy shrub, with short 

 twiggy branches, covered with needle-shaped 

 leaves, and bearing numerous axillary racemes 

 of flowers of a light scarlet, with a yellow mark 

 at the base of the standard. Flowers from April 

 to June, and sometimes till September. Height 



3 feet. 



C. ilicifolium, a diffuse spreading shrub, with 

 oblong, lamceolate, pinnatifidly spinous leaves, 

 and bearing scarlet flowers ; the standard marked 

 with yellow at the base. Flowers from March 

 to October. Height 3 feet. Introduced 1803. 



C. yarium, a dwarf compact-growing species 

 with variable leaves ; in some forms broadly 

 ovate, toothed, and spiny on the margin; in 

 others almost entire, and sometimes nearly round 

 in outline. The flowers are very numerous, in 

 short racemes, large and showy, usually orange 

 with crimson wings. Flowers in June. Height 



4 feet. 



The variety called ilicifolium nanum, of re- 

 markably dwarf habit, being only 9 inches in 

 height, is the best for a limited collection, though 

 there are two or three other very distinct and 

 beautiful forms. 



Christmas Rose (/. ord. Ranuncu- 



la'ceae). 



A variety of the hellebore, otherwise 

 known as Helleborus niger. It fc a hardy 

 herbaceous perennial that cheers the 

 flower borders and shrubberies with its pure 

 white flowers in the depth of winter. It is 



CHRISTMAS ROSB. 



propagated by division of the roots and also 

 from seed. It thrives in any ordinary 

 garden soil, but prefers a shaded situation. 

 It also blooms well under glass in a cool 

 house, the protection thus afforded serving 

 to preserve the purity of the flowers. 



Chrysanthemum (nat. ord. Astera'- 



ceae). 



Although this plant is among the hardi- 

 est of the hardy, yet flowering as it does, 

 chiefly in late autumn and early winter, its 

 beautiful blooms are subject to injury from 

 the weather when grown out of doors, and 

 soon lose their freshness, and are injured 

 in form and dimmed in colour, under the 

 adverse influences of rain and frost. To 

 exhibit the blooms of chrysanthemums in 

 perfection it is desirable that they should at 

 least have protection over head, if it be 

 nothing more than an awning of water- 

 proofed calico, with ends of the same, if 

 thepots or border in which they are grow- 

 ing be at the foot of a wall to which the ends 

 and roofing can be attached. The best 

 protection, however, is afforded by a cold 

 greenhouse, a glazed structure without fire 



