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Cypress in form, and worth a place among j 

 curious annual plants. C. Blituin capita- 

 turn (Strawberry-blite] is a hardy 

 annual, growing from \\ to 2 ft. high, 

 the flowers small, followed by high- 

 coloured fruit calyxes resembling small 

 Strawberries. Sow in April in'the open air. 



CHIMAPHILA (Pipsissewa*). Small 

 shrubby plants of the Heather order, j 

 natives of the dry woods of N. America. ! 

 C. maculata (Spotted Wintergreen) has 

 small leathery leaves variegated with 

 white, 3 to 6 in. high, and is pretty for ! 

 a half-shady and mossy, but not wet, } 

 place in the rock-garden, with such ! 

 plants as the dwarf Andromeda and i 

 the Pyrola, and succeeds best in very ! 

 sandy leaf-soil. C. umbellata, with glossy 

 unspotted leaves and somewhat larger 

 reddish flowers, is also suited for like 

 positions. 



CHIMONANTHUS ( Winter-Sweet). 

 C.fragrans is a lovely shrub, which in 

 our country enjoys a wall, flowering in 

 December and January ; beautiful, and 

 of delicious fragrance, the flowers coming 

 upon young wood after the leaves have 

 fallen, brownish-yellow, marked with 

 purple inside ; and precious for gathering 

 for the house. The best variety is grandi- 

 ftora, its flowers being longer and more j 

 open, but the shrub varies a little from ] 

 seed, in which way it is often raised in j 

 nurseries. This shrub does best on a wall 

 with a southern or western aspect. A i 

 few shoots with blooms upon them placed 

 in a room last a long time, and diffuse , 

 their pleasant fragrance, and little harm j 

 need be done by cutting these twigs, as 

 in the ordinary course they would be j 

 pruned away after their flowers have 

 faded. In fact we may in cutting with 

 some care the precious shoots for the 

 house prune the bush. Layers and seed. 

 Japan. Calycanthacea. 



Chionanthus virginica. 



CHIONANTHUS (Ftinge Tree). A 

 beautiful small hardy tree of the Olive 

 family ; in some old English gardens there 



are fine specimens, but it is rarely met 

 with in modern gardens. Fully grown 

 in this country, in sandy loam or warm 

 soil, it is a dense bush about 12 ft. high, 

 but in its native country it is a tree. In 

 early summer it bears long clusters of 

 white flowers, with petals long and nar- 

 row like a fring'e. N. America. A newer 

 species is the Chinese C. retusus, which 

 is not so pretty, though its flowers are 

 white and fringed. 



CHIONODOXA (Glory of the Snow}. 

 Among the most beautiful of our early 

 spring-flowering bulbs, and a precious 

 addition to our garden flora. Their great 

 hardiness, beauty, and the rapidity with 

 which they increase in ordinary soils 

 make them great favourites. 



C. Luciliae. A plant variable in size 

 as well as in the form and colour of its 

 flowers, but of usually a pretty blue and 

 white. Newly imported bulbs as a rule 

 give small and few flowers, but when well 

 established size and number are almost 

 doubled. It is one of the hardiest bulbs 

 we possess, flowering during March and 

 April. There is a white-flowered form, 

 but it is rare. C. grandiflora is more 

 robust, the flowers larger and more 

 numerous and of a distinct soft violet- 

 blue with a small white centre. C. 

 Sardensis is a charming kind, the flowers, 

 fine Gentian blue. The bulbs were found 

 close to the ruins of the ancient town of 

 Sardis, at 4000 to 5000 ft. above sea level. 

 There are various other names, but the 

 above are distinct and the best of the 

 family. 



CHOISYA (Mexican Orange -flower). 

 A handsome shrub, of the Rue order, 

 C. fernata in the south and west often 

 thrives with the shelter of a wall and a 

 southern or western aspect, and often 

 in high ground, at least, thriving as a 

 bush. It is fast-growing, the flowers a 

 lovely contrast to the deep rich green 

 foliage. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. - Perennial 

 and annual plants, some of which are 

 valuable for the garden. 



C. arcticum. A good plant for the 

 rock-garden about a foot high, flowering 

 all the summer, white tinged with lilac or 

 rose. 



C. carinatum (Tricolor Chrysanthe- 

 mum}. A showy annual from N. Africa, 

 which varies much in cultivation, and is 

 valuable if only for its yield of flowers 

 for cutting. There are double white and 

 yellow forms ; and the showy ones known 

 as C. Burridgeanum. Dunnett's varieties 

 of the same plant are also good. They 

 are propagated from seeds sown in April 



