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CONVOLVULUS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CORDYLINE. 



rows and copses. It grows in almost any 

 soil, and, like its relation the Bindweed, 

 is readily increased by division of the 

 roots, which creep. Syn. Calystegia 

 (Caucasus). 



C. major. See IPOMCEA. 



C. mauritanicus (Blue Rock Bind- 

 weed). A beautiful prostrate twining 

 plant from N. Africa, with slender stems. 

 The flowers blue, I in. across, with a 

 white throat and yellow anthers. The 

 rock-garden, and raised borders ; sup- 

 posed to require sunny positions, in sandy, 

 well-drained soil, but I find it fine on 

 stiffish cool soils, and even hardy on them. 

 Division or cuttings. 



C. pubescens fl.-pl. (Double Bindweed}. 

 Handsome and useful for clothing 

 trellises, stumps, porches, and rustic-work. 

 It grows rapidly to the height of 6 ft. 

 The flowers are large, double, and of a 

 pale rose, appearing in June and onward. 

 The Double Bindweed likes a light rich 

 soil and a warm aspect. It may be 

 grown in large pots, tubs, or boxes, and 

 prettily used for forming small bowers 

 on balconies, to hide low fences, or to 

 climb round posts. Division. (China). 



C. Soldanella (Sea Bindweed}. A dis- 

 tinct trailing species with fleshy leaves ; 

 flowering in summer, pale-red, and hand- 

 some in the rock-garden, if planted so that 

 its shoots droop over stones. Also suited 

 for borders, in ordinary soil. Division. 

 Europe and Britain. 



C. sylvaticus. No plant forms more 

 beautiful and delicate curtains of foliage 

 and flowers than this, which grows vigor- 

 ously in any soil. The wild garden is the 

 place where it is most at home, and 

 where its vigorous roots may ramble 

 without doing injury to other plants. 

 Among bushes or hedges, over railings, 

 or on rough banks, it is charming, and 

 takes care of itself. The rosy pink form 

 incarnata is supposed to be a native of 

 N. America, but is naturalised in some 

 parts of Ireland. Native of S. Europe and 

 N. Africa. 



C. tricolor. One of the most beautiful 

 of hardy annuals, too well known to need 

 description. There are numerous varieties, 

 varying more or less in colour of flowers 

 or in habit of growth. The flowers of the 

 type are blue, yellow, and white, but there 

 are varieties entirely white, and almost 

 every variety is worth growing. The plant 

 being perfectly hardy, may be sown in the 

 open ground in September for flowering in 

 spring, or sown in February, in a heated 

 frame, for transplanting in May for mid- 

 summer flowering, and in the open ground 

 from April to the end of May for flower- 



ing in late summer and autumn. Syn., 

 C. minor. 



COPTIS (Gold Thread]. C. tri folia is a 

 little evergreen bog plant 3 or 4 in. high 

 with trifoliate shining leaves, deriving 

 its common name from its long bright 

 yellow roots. Northern parts of America, 

 Asia, and Europe, flowering in summer ; 

 white. Easily grown in moist peat or 

 very moist sandy soil. Division. 



CORDYLINE (Club Palm}. Although 

 these fine-leaved shrub plants are common 

 in greenhouses, it is only in the mildest 

 parts of England and Ireland that they 

 can be grown well in the open air. In 

 the Isle of Wight, and from thence 

 along the shores of Devonshire and 

 Cornwall to the Scilly Isles, they succeed 

 well, forming a fine feature even in cottage 



Convolvulus sylvaticus. 



gardens, whilst in some larger gardens 

 whole avenues are planted. But, in far 

 less favoured places, it is often seen 

 thriving for years in the open air, though 

 it is not worth trying in cold, high, and 

 inland places, especially on clay soils. 



The true C. indivisa is distinct, and a 

 large number of plants have at different 

 times been in cultivation ; owing, how- 

 ever, to their being treated as tropical 

 plants, they usually proved short-lived. 

 One of the finest specimens in the country 

 is in Mr. Rashleigh's garden at Menabilly, 

 Cornwall. C. i. lineata is a fine variety, 

 with leaves much broader than those of 

 the type, and sometimes 4 in. across, 

 coloured with reddish pink at the sheath- 

 ing base. There are many forms. At 

 Knockmaroon Lodge, near Dublin, a plant, 

 1 6 ft. high, with a stem some 6 in. in dia- 

 meter, annually flowered and bore an 

 abundance of seeds, from which seedlings. 



