CHEIRANTHUS, GHORIZEMA 



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of a brownish-red shade, the plants being of medium height and 

 adaptable to both pot culture and to the production of cut blooms. 

 Sow the first lot of seed about the middle of April and transplant 

 the seedlings when large enough to the open field. Lift in October 

 and pot into 5s or 6s according to their size. The plants, up to 

 February, are just as well off in a coldframe. 



About the middle of February the first lot can be brought into 

 a Carnation house temperature where they will start to flower in 

 March. A heavy plant in a 6-in. pot will have from fifteen to 

 twenty flower spikes and can either be sold as a pot plant or the 

 flowers can be used for cutting. Other batches of plants may be 

 brought in from time to time ; also a later sowing can be made, say, 

 about the middle of May. If you have plenty of field plants they 

 can be carried along in frames and planted on sohd beds in a cold- 

 house or in benches and grown on for cut flowers. Or plants carried 

 in a frame can be planted outdoors in early Spring where they will 

 make a showy bed. Of course, it all depends on what variety you 

 plant. You cannot make a cheap strain of mixed seed pay, but 

 there are excellent named sorts 

 such as GoUath, dark brown; 

 Ruppert, brownish-red; and 

 Gohath Triumph, purplish- 

 crimson. 



CHERRY, FLOWERING 



See Cerasus 



CHERRY, JERUSALEM 



See Solanum 



CHINESE LANTERN 

 PLANT. See Physalis 



GHORIZEMA 



ILLIGIFOLIUM 



(TANGO PLANT) 



You may never want to 

 grow on a stock of Ghorize- 

 mas yourself, for it takes sev- 

 eral years to grow a fair-sized 

 specimen from a cutting; and 

 even then, although the plants, 

 covered with their light green, 

 HoUy-like, glossy leaves and 

 pink flowers, are attractive, 

 it isn't likely you will sell 

 many. Leave the growing on 

 of the plants, then, to the 

 specialist. He who knows how 



Fig. 128. — Chorizema macrophyllum in 

 Flower. When well grown a number of 

 the Ghorizemas make beautiful flowering 

 pot plants, but even though they are cold- 

 house plants it hardly pays the smaller 

 florist to grow them on from cuttings 



