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GREENHOUSE EVERGREENS. 



C. arbo'rea (tree). 8. White. September. Ma- 

 deira. 1784. 



mi'nor (smaller). 2. White. September. 



Madeira. 



variega'ta (variegated). 3. White. Au- 

 gust. Madeira. 



ferrugi'nea (rusty). 4. White Peru. 1800. 



quercifo'lia (oak-leaved). 10. White. June. 



Mexico. 1840. 



Ztt/o'/ia(tinus-leaved), 20. White. Jamaica. 



1825. Stove. 



CLEYE'KA. (Named after Dr. Cleyer, 

 a Dutch botanist. Nat. ord., Theads 

 [Ternstromiaceas]. Linn., 13-Polyandria 

 I-Monogynia.} 



Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings of 

 half-ripe shoots in sand, under ;i bell-glass ; sandy, 

 fibry peat. Summer temp., 60 to 70 ; winter, 

 45 to 50. 



C. Japo'nica (Japan). 5, Yellowish-white. Japan. 

 1820. 



CLIA'NTHUS. (From kleios, glory, and 

 anthos, a flower. Nat. ord., Leguminous 

 Plants [Fabaceee]. Linn., \l-Diadelplila 

 &-Decandria. Allied to Sutherlandia.) 



The Parrot-Beak plant and the Glory Pea of 

 New Zealand. Half-hardy evergreen shrubs. 

 Cuttings in sandy soil, under a glass, easily ; peat 

 and loam, with a little sand or charcoal. Young 

 plants are best grown rapidly, old plants are so 

 subject to red spider ; do well in pots, planted 

 out in a conservatory, or against a wall, where a 

 little protection can be given in winter. 

 C. ca'rneus (flesh-coloured). 6. Flesh. May 



Philippines. 1840. 

 puni'ceua (crimson corolla'). 3. Crimson. May. 



New Zealand. 1832. 



CLIDA'NTHUS. (From dideios, delicate, 

 and anthos, a flower. Nat. ord., Ama- 

 ryllids [Amaryllidaceaa]. Linn., Q-Hex- 

 andria I-Monogynia. Allied to Pancra- 

 tium.) 



This bulb increases so rapidly by offsets, and 

 splitting of the old bulb, that it is difficult to keep 

 bulbs of a size to flower. It grows vigorously in a 

 border of fertile loam, in front of a greenhouse, 

 in summer, but is so impatient of wet that it re- 

 quires to be taken up in the autumn, without de- 

 stroying the roots, and kept dry, till April, in a 

 pot of sand or light soil. It looks like a yellow 

 Narcissus. 



C.fra'grans (fragrant). Yellow. Buenos Ayres 

 1820. 



CLIMATE controls the growth of plants 

 most imperatively ; and, in the cultivation 

 of his fruits, flowers, and culinary veg 

 tables, it forms the first object of the 

 gardener's inquiry. He must first know 

 the climate of which any given plant is 

 native ; and, secondly, the soil which it 

 affects, before he can cultivate it suc- 

 cessfully. How all-influential is climate 

 appears from the fact, that differenl 

 countries, though in the same degrees o1 



latitude, have" often a totally different 

 Flora on soils similar in constitution. 

 Now the reason for these differences 

 ,that the countries thus contrasted differ 

 in climate ; that is, they differ in the in- 

 tensity and duration of the light and heat 

 they enjoy; they differ in the contrast of 

 their day and night temperatures ; they 

 differ in the relative length of the day 

 and night ; they differ in the length of 

 their summer and winter, or, which is 

 synonymous, in the relative lengths of 

 their periods of vegetable activity and 

 rest ; they differ, also, in the amount of 

 rain which falls, not only annually, but 

 at particular seasons ; they differ in 

 baviug much atmospheric moisture de- 

 posited, in the form of rain, or dew, or 

 snow, at the different periods of vegeta- 

 ble activity or rest. Now, whatever 

 these differences are, whatever the pecu- 

 liarities of a climate from which a plant 

 comes, the gardener cannot cultivate it 

 successfully unless he secures to that 

 plant those clirnatal differences and pe- 

 culiarities. We often see long tables of 

 the average monthly temperature of 

 places ; but these are useless. They are 

 no guides to the gardener unless they 

 show the average highest and lowest 

 temperatures of each month, as well as 

 the highest and lowest degrees the ther- 

 mometer is known to reach during the 

 same period. 



CLIMBERS are plants which attach 

 themselves to supporters by their natural 

 appendages, as by their tendrils, by their 

 hooks, or by other modes of attachment. 



CLINA'NTHUS. See CLITA'NTHUS. 



CLINTO'NIA. (Named, by the unfortu- 

 nate Douglas, after his friend, De Witt 

 Clinton, Governor of the state of New 

 York. Nat. ord., a section of Loleliads 

 [Lobeliaceoe]. Linn., IQ-Monadelphia 

 2-Pcntandria.) 



Hardy annuals, from Columbia. Seeds, in well- 

 pulverised, rather light soil, in April ; or in a 

 slight hotbed, in March, and planted out. 

 C. e'legans (elegant). 1. Blue. July. 1827. 

 pulche'lla (pretty). 1. Blue, white. August. 

 1831. 



CLIOCO'CCA. (From Meio, to close, and 

 kokkos a berry. Nat. ord., Flaxworts 

 [Linacece], Linn., 5-Pcntandria -Pen- 

 tayynia. Allied to Lin urn.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennial. Seeds sown fts 

 directed for Clintonia, and by divisions ; light 

 loam, and a little pent. 



C. tenuifo'lia (slender-leaved). *. Purple. July. 

 'Australia. 1S37. 



