CUR 



CUT 



the prevailing colour is bluish black, 

 with various parts yellow ; the antennce 

 black ; the breast with a yellow line on 

 each side ; the abdomen, or lower part 

 of the body, has three yellow rings 

 round it in the females, and four in the 

 males ; the fore-wings are barred and 

 veined with black ; it has a brush of 

 fine scales at the end of its abdomen, 

 which fan it can expand as it pleases. 

 The red, white, and black currant, and, 

 wo think, the gooseberry, are all liable 

 to its attacks. It lays its eggs at this 

 time in openings of the bark of a young 

 shoot, and the caterpillar, immediately 

 it is hatched, penetrates to its pith and 

 eats its way down this until it reaches 

 the pith of the main branch. The only 

 securitive measures are to kill the moth 

 whenever seen, and to split open the 

 withered brandies and serve the cater- 

 pillars similarly. The CottayeGardener, 

 ii. lir>. 



CU'SCUTA. Dodder. (From kechotrt, 

 its Arabic name. Nat. ord.. Dodders 

 [Cuscutaceae]. Linn., 5-Pentandria 2- 

 Diyynia). 



One peculiarity in all the Dodders is that 

 their seeds germinate in the earth ; but as soon 

 as the roots of the seedlings are grown suffi- 

 ciently to take hold of a neighbouring plant, or 

 even of each other, they lose their attachment 

 to the soil. Curious parasitical plants, with 

 white flowers ; sow in April. They will live 

 upon almost any plant they can lay hold of, 

 such as the common stinging-nettle, clover, 

 hemp, &c. 



STOVE. 



C. America 1 'na (American). August. South 

 America. 1816. 



Hooke'ri (Hooker's). September. East In- 



dies. 1823. 



odora'ta (sweet-scented). January. Lima. 



1820. 



verruco'sa (warted). August. Nepaul. 1821. 



GREENHOUSE. 



C. Austra'lls (Southern). August. New Hol- 

 land. 1818. 



Chile'mis (Chilian). August. Chili. 1821. 



Chine 1 -nsis (Chinese). August. 



mono'gyna (one-styled). July. Levant. 1818. 



HARDY. 



C. Calif o'rnica (Californian). July. Califor- 

 nia. 1847- 



epili'num( Flax-frequenter). July. Britain. 



Epi'thymwn (true Dodder). July. Britain. 



Enrojxp.'a (European). July. Britain. 



lupulifo'rmis( Hop-like). July. Silesia. 1824. 



macroca'rpa (large-seeded). July. Siberia. 



182?. 



trifo'lii (Clover Dodder), July, Britain. 



CURTI'SIA. Hassagay Tree. (In 

 honour of the late William Curtis, who 

 originated the Botanical Magazine. 

 Nat. ord., Cornels [Cornacese]. Linn., 

 3-Triandria \-Monoyynia) . 



Cornels are entirely distinct from Caprifoils, 

 with which they have long been associated. 

 The Hottentots and Caffres make from this tree 

 the shafts of their javelins. Greenhouse ever- 

 green tree ; sandy loam and peat ; cuttings in 

 sand, under glass in heat. 

 C.fagi'nca (Beech-leaved). 30. Pale. Cape 

 of Good Hope. 1775. 



CUSSO'NIA. (Named after P. C-usson, 

 a French botanist, Nat. ord., Ivyworts 

 { Araliacere] . Linn., 5-Pentandria 2- 

 Diyynla. Allied to Panax). 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, with green flowers ; cuttings in 

 sand, under a glass, with bottom-heat ; loam 

 and peat. 

 C. spica'ta (spike-flowered). 6. I'SQ. 



thjtrsifio'ra (thyrse-flowered). 6. 1795. 



tri'pteris (three-winged). 4. 1810. 

 CUSTARD APPLE. Ano'na. 



CUTTING is a part of a plant capable 

 of emitting roots, and of becoming an 

 individual similar to its parent. The 

 circumstances requisite to effect this 

 are a suitable temperature, and degree 

 of moisture. 



A rooted cutting is not a new plant, 

 it is only an extension of the parent, 

 gifted with precisely the same habits, 

 and delighting in exactly the same de- 

 gree of heat, light, and moisture, and in 

 the same food. There are numbers of 

 plants which strike most readily from 

 the young shoots ; others from partially 

 ripened wood ; some from a leaf with a 

 bud at its base ; a fourth set from off- 

 shoots from the base of the old plants; 

 and a fifth from leaves or portions of 

 leaves only ; and in some rare cases, 

 from the mere scolloped edges of the 

 leaves ; whilst several can only be pro- 

 pagated by cuttings of the roots, and 

 a few by cuttings of the flower-stems. 

 Particular cases will be described under 

 the names of the species requiring 

 some peculiar mode. In this place } 

 only general hints can be given. 



Cuttinys of hardy Jlowerintj plants. 

 Most kinds of quick growing soft- 

 wooded plants are best propagated by 

 the young shoots or tops of the plants. 

 The following list embraces the prin- 

 cipal of t\iem:>S'ift-icoodf'd plants. 



