DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 157 
double flowers, which are rich and handsome. It is raised 
frora seed; the plants flowering the spring following. 
CHELONE.—Tortie-ueap. 
CA Greek word, signifying a tortoise, to the back of which the helmet of the 
present genus has been fancifully compared.) 
Cheléne glabra, also called C. obliqua, is a North 
American species with white, rose-colored or purple flow- 
ers. The plant formerly called Chelone barbata, is a 
Pentstemon. Handsome. border perennials, of easy cul- 
ture in loamy soil, or loam and a little peat. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM.—Caurnesr CurysaNTHEmMuM. 
(From the Greek words for Gold and flower.] 
Chrysanthemum Indicum.—This is one- of the hand- 
somest autumnal flowers, and easily cultivated in almost 
apy soil. It stands the winter without covering, but is 
best cultivated in pots, where it can receive protection 
when in bloom, in severe weather in autumn. In warm 
seasons, it flowers well in October and November, in a 
sheltered place, in the open ground. The plants may be 
cultivated in the garden till they are in bud, when they 
may be safely transferred to pots; but it would be better 
to commence their cultivation from the slip or cutting, in 
the spring, and sink the pots into the ground, in a shady 
place, until the time of taking up. The varieties are end- 
less, early and late, tassel-flowered, quilled, flat-petalled, 
pompon, -etc., with every shade of light purple, yellow, 
white, lilac, blush-brown, red-brown, etc. 
For common culture, divide the roots in the spring, and 
plant them out, where they are to stand, in a warm ex- 
