488 CHAM^EROPS. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CHEIRANTHUS. 



and should seldom be watered. Seed 

 sown in February will give good plants 

 by May ; but the best are those sown in 

 a border in the open ground in September, 

 potted up carefully, and kept in the green- 

 house during winter. Syn. Cnicus. 



CHA3VLEROPS. Handsome palms, 

 hardy, and giving distinct effects in the 

 garden. 



hardy. A plant in the garden at Osborne 

 has stood out for many winters, also at 

 Kew, protected in winter. On the waterside 

 of the high mound in the Botanic Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, it is in even better health 

 than at Kew, though it has had no protec- 

 tion ; and severe frosts have not hurt it. If 

 small plants are procured, grow them on 

 freely for a year or two in the greenhouse, 



Chamaerops Fortune! in a Surrey garden.. 



C. Fortune! (The Chusan Palm}. A. 

 valuable Palm, often confounded with 

 C. excelsa. It is stouter and has a more 

 profuse matted network of fibres round 

 the bases of the leaves ; the segments 

 of the leaves are much broader, and 

 the leaf-stalks shorter and stouter, being 

 from i to 2 ft. long, and quite unarmed. 

 It grows 12 ft. or more high, and has a 

 spreading head of fan-like leaves, and is 



and then turn them out in April, spreading 

 the roots a little and giving them a deep 

 loamy soil. Plant in a sheltered place, so 

 that the leaves may not be injured by winds 

 when they get large. A gentle hollow, or 

 among shrubs on the sides of some 

 sheltered glade, is the best place. C. hu- 

 milis is also hardy at least on sandy soil. 

 CHEIRANTHUS ( Wallflower). - 

 Beautiful plants made familiar by the 



