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servatories, and is also useful for window-boxes. It grows freely, 

 forms nice bushes, blooms abundantly, and is easily grown. Cut- 

 tings of young shoots, or from the base, strike readily in spring, 

 summer, or autumn in sandy soil. Good plants can be grown in 

 <5-in. pots. If grey lines show in the leaves, indicating the presence 

 of a grub, they should be pinched between thumb and finger. The 

 yellow Marguerite, Etoile d'Or, is now almost as popular as the 

 -white, and both may be grown successfully under similar treatment. 

 The Blue Marguerite belongs to a different genus. It is Agathaea 

 coelestis. It may, however, be grown in the same way as the true 

 Marguerites. The Golden Feather is used for lines and designs in 

 iormal beds. It may be treated like an annual, being sown in a box 

 in frame, put in a heated frame or greenhouse, pricked off, hardened 

 in an unheated frame, and planted out in summer. The soil must 

 not be made rich, or the plants will grow rank and green. They 

 should be pinched regularly with finger and thumb to keep them 

 dwarf. 



Chrysocoma, Goldilocks (chrysoco-ma, from chrysos, gold, and 

 home, hair, alluding to the yellow florets. Ord. Compositae). The 

 best-known species is Lynosyris, a hardy herbaceous plant now called 

 Aster Linosyris by botanists. It may be grown in the border. 

 C. Coma-aurea is a greenhouse evergreen, growing about 2 ft. high 

 and producing yellow flowers in July (see the Botanical Magazine, 

 t. 1972). Peat and loam in equal parts, with sand, suit. Propaga- 

 tion is by cuttings under a bell-glass in spring. 



Chrysogonum (chrysog-onum, from chrysos, yellow, and gonu, a 

 joint. Ord. Compositae). Virginianum is a good yellow spring- 

 flowering hardy herbaceous perennial, i ft. high. Loamy soil. 

 Propagated by division in early summer. 



Cibotium. See Dicksonia. 



Cichorium (Chicory). See Kitchen Garden. 



Cimicifuga, Bug wort (cimicif-uga, from cimex, bug, and fugo, to 

 drive away. Ord. Ranunculaceae). Very handsome hardy herba- 

 ceous plants, well worth growing in the border. They do best in a 

 heavy, moist soil. In light, dry soil they ought to have a shady 

 place. Propagation is by division in spring. The following are 

 good: cordifolia, 3 ft. high, July, white flowers (see Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 2069); foetida (syns. frigida, simplex), 3 ft., white; and 

 racemosa, 4 to 5 ft., August, white. 



Cinchona (cincho-na, after the Countess of Cinchon. Ord. Rubia- 

 ceae). Of no garden value, but of medicinal interest as yielding 

 quinine, which is prepared from the bark and is famous as a febrifuge. 



Cineraria (cinerar-ia, from cineres, ashes, in allusion to the grey 

 leaves. Ord. Compositae). The Cineraria of the florists, whether 

 represented by the round-flowered, smooth-edged strains that were 

 the joy of an older generation, or the " star-flower " type (stellata) 

 which enjoys so much favour to-day, is a free-blooming, brilliant, 

 and easily-grown plant, well worthy of the high esteem in which it 

 is held. Easily raised from seed, almost hardy, blooming in winter 



