THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



COI.CHICUM. 



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gardens, especially near the sea, it grows 



5 ft. high and is handsome for the several 

 weeks it is in bloom. The other species is 

 less common, and is a free-growing shrub, 



6 ft. high or more, bearing large loose 

 clusters of flowers, the corollas white, 

 the calyces a deep brownish-red, blooming 

 in September. 



CLETHEA (Sweet Pepper Bush}. 

 Shrubs arid 

 small trees of 

 the H eath 

 Order, the 

 hardy species 

 natives of 

 North Ameri- 

 ca. The Alder- 

 leaved Clethra 

 (C. aini folia] 

 in the wet 

 copses of Vir- 

 ginia reaches 

 a height of 10 

 ft. or more. 

 With us it 



grows from 3 to 5 ft., makes a dense 

 bush, bearing in summer white sweet- 

 scented flowers in feathery spikes. C. 

 acuminata has more pointed leaves, and 

 it also has spikes of white scented flowers ; 

 it is quite a small tree in the woods of 

 the Alleghanies. Both are valuable 

 shrubs for moist peaty places. 



C. arborea. Is the handsome Lily-of- 

 the- Valley tree. It bears panicles of white, 

 bell-shaped flowers in the summer, at 

 which time it is quite a feature at Tresco. 

 It thrives out-of-doors in the south, and 

 may be worth trying in the warmer parts 

 of S. Ireland, but usually in our country 

 is a shrub for the greenhouse. Madeira. 

 CLIANTHUS (Glory Pea). Brilliant 

 shrubs seldom seen out-of-doors in the 

 London district or home counties, but one 



Clethra alnifolia. 



Clianthus puniceus. 



kind is quite free as a wall plant in Irish 

 and west-country gardens, and should be 

 more frequently planted in sea-shore and 

 warm places. It is C. puniceus a native 

 of New Zealand, and as handsome a 

 shrub when in bloom as one could wish 

 to see, its splendid crimson blooms 

 borne in large bunches during summer. 

 Cuttings. 



Clintonia. See DOWINGIA. 



Cnicus benedictus. See CARBENIA. 



COBJEA (Cups and Saucers]. In 

 favourable localities in the southern and 

 western counties C. scandens, a well-known 

 greenhouse plant, thrives against an 

 outside wall, and will cover a con- 

 siderable space of trellis-work during 

 summer. It should be planted in light 

 rich soil, and if watered liberally during 

 the growing season will soon cover a large 

 space and flower freely. With some 

 protection it will survive an ordinary 

 winter. 



CODONOPSIS. Interesting and some- 

 times pretty plants of the Bellflower 

 Order, easy to cultivate in light and warm 

 soils, C. ovata being a fine bushy plant. 

 They are suited for warm borders. Some 

 are annuals, but most are hardy pe- 

 rennial flowers from the mountains of 

 India. 



COLCHICUM (Meadow Saffron]. - 

 Hardy bulbs, some handsome in autumn. 

 The individual flowers do not, as a rule, 

 last long, but, as they come in succession, 



Colchicum in Grass. 



there is a long season of bloom. The 

 flowers are often destroyed through 



