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springs that furnished an ample supply, near 

 which he found this plant, which he named 

 Chorizema, from choros, a dance, and zema, a 

 drink ; in allusion to the joyful feelings of the 

 party on meeting with a supply of water. Of 

 this really beautiful genus there are many 

 species ; the one most commonly met is C. 

 varium, a rapid-growing and free-flowering 

 kind. The flowers are of a bright orange red 

 color, in long terminal racemes, flowering 

 through the winter months. It is readily 

 propagated by cuttings, which should be 

 taken in February, and grown in small pots 

 until the weather is suitable for planting out, 

 as they should be grown in the border during 

 summer. Before there is danger from frost, 

 take up and pot in five-inch pots, in good rich 

 loam and sand. Cut well back, and give it a 

 warm, sunny situation, with liberal watering 

 as soon as the new growth commences. It 

 will begin to bloom in eight to ten weeks. 



Christmas Rose. Helleborus niger. 



Christopher Herb. Actcea spicata and Osmunda 

 regalis. 



Christ's Thorn. Cratcegus Pyracantha and 

 Paliurus aculeatus. 



Chrysa'iithemum. From chrysos, gold, and 

 anthos, a flower ; alluding to the color of some 

 of the flowers being yellow. Nat. Ord. 

 Composites. 



A large and important genus of herbaceous 

 or slightly shrubby plants, of which the Ox- 

 eye Daisy of our fields to a well known repre- 

 sentative. Many species have been introduced 

 from various countries of which C. grandi- 

 florum from the Canary Islands, and C. pin- 

 natifidum from Madiera, are of a shrubby 

 habit, and flower during a large portion of the 

 year. C. frutescens is " the Marguerite " or 

 Paris Daisy of the florists, the flowers of 

 which and others of a similar description are 

 largely used in floral decorations. The variety 

 " Etoile d' Or," and the double yellow sort 

 called the '-Golden Marguerite," are also 

 very popular and are good subjects for the 

 flower border in summer. (7. coronarium from 

 the Levant and C. carinatum called also C. 

 tricolor, from Barbary, and their many va- 

 rieties, are very ornamental border annuals. 

 The species, however, which holds so high a 

 rank, and with reason, among florists' flowers 

 is C. ine,nse the Chinese Chrysanthemum, the 

 value of which as an ornament of the flower- 

 garden, the green-house or conservatory in 

 the autumnal months, is well known and duly 

 appreciated. Their cultivation is exceedingly 

 simple. 



If wanted to flower only in the open ground, 

 all that is necessary is to plant them in the 

 open border in any good ground, well enriched 

 with manure. If possible, plant them in a warm 

 sheltered spot, particularly in any section 

 north of Baltimore, as, being the latest of all 

 flowers of autumn, a better development will 

 be had if planted in a place sheltered by a 

 fence, hill or shrubbery. As they are usually 

 grown in pots, they can be planted out any time 

 from April to July, though preference may be 

 given to May. They form an average width 

 by October of two feet in diameter, if the tops 

 are pinched off so as to make them bushy ; 

 they should be set out at about two feet apart 

 each way. The "topping" or "pinching" 

 back, as it is called, should not be done 



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later than 1st of August, if much later it 

 might destroy the flowering to some extent. 

 When wanted to be grown for green-house 

 or house culture, the best plan for amateurs is 

 to put each plant when received in a flower 

 pot six, seven or eight inches wide and deep ; 

 plunge these pots to the rims in the open 

 ground, level with the soil, treating exactly 

 the same as recommended for planting in the 

 open border, by pinching, etc. Care should, 

 however, be taken to turn the flower pots 

 round every eight or ten days, so as to prevent 

 the roots getting through the bottom of the 

 pot, the object being to confine the whole roots 

 within the pot. This same plan is the best 

 for amateurs who cultivate any kind of plant 

 to grow in the house or green-house in winter. 

 The large flowers which are seen at the 

 exhibitions are obtained by pinching off all 

 the buds but one on each shoot, just as 

 soon as the buds can be seen; "disbudded," 

 as it is called, in this way, many kinds of 

 Chrysanthemum flowers can be obtained six 

 to nine inches in diameter. This is the 

 method used to obtain all the fine flowers 

 seen at the Exhibitions. It is deceiving, how- 

 ever, to those unacquainted with the plan, 

 because a flower so obtained showing six or 

 seven inches in diameter, if grown with half 

 a dozen flowers on the same spray, would not 

 be half the size. Hence amateurs who have 

 selected special kinds from the cut flower 

 tables at Exhibitions, must not be disappoint- 

 ed at finding them half the size when they 

 flower, unless they use the same process of 

 disbudding to obtain large flowers. 



The Chrysanthemum is classed by growers 

 into the following sections : Incurved, Ra- 

 nunculus flowered or Exhibition, Recurved or 

 Reflex-flowered, Anemone or Quilled-Aster 

 flowered, Pompone, Small Reflexed or Chusan, 

 Daisy-flowered, Quilled or Pin-feathered Jap- 

 anese, and Large-flowered Japanese, in all of 

 which there are many beautiful varieties. 



Chrysanthus. Yellow flowered. 



Chryse'is. A name sometimes given to Esch- 

 scholtzia. 



Chrysoba'ctron. From chrysos, gold, and bac- 

 tron, a wand ; alluding to the magnificent 

 racemes of C. Rossii. Nat. Ord. lAHaceaz. 



This is a small genus from the Auckland 

 and Campbell Islands, New Zealand, closely 

 allied to Anthericum. They are found growing 

 in marshy places, and will only succeed well 

 with pot culture. The soil should be a fibrous 

 loam, and the pots in which they are grown 

 should be partly immersed in water. The 

 flowers are bright yellow, produced in 

 racemes, and are very beautiful. Propagated 

 by division of the roots. Introduced in 1848. 



Chrysoba'lanus. From chrysos, gold, and 

 balanos, an acorn ; in reference to the yellow 

 fruit of some of the species. Nat. Ord. Rosa- 

 cece. 



A genus of stove or green-house shrubs, 

 with simple leaves and white flowers borne in 

 panicles ; fruit edible. Natives of Florida. 



Chryso'gonum. From chrysos, gold, and gonu, 

 a knee, or joint ; the flowers are generally 

 produced at the joints of the stem. Nat. Ord. 

 Composite. 



C. Virginianum, the typical species and 

 probably the only one in cultivation, is found 

 in the Western States from Illinois south- 



