ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: O. funebris (Funeral Oypress), weeping habit, 40 to 
50 ft., China; goveniana, compact habit, 20 to 30 ft., California; lawsoniana (Law- 
son’s Oypress), pyramidal habit, 100 to 150 ft., Oalifornia, and its varieties, albo- 
spica, albo-variegata, argentea, argenteo-variegata, aureo-variegata, erecta viridis, 
filiformis, gracilis pendula, lutea, nana, nana albo and nana glauca; macrocarpa 
(Monterey Oypress), spreading habit, 60 to 90 ft., California; nookkatensis (Alaska 
Cypress), pyramidal habit, 100 to 120 ft., Vancouver’s Island, and its varieties, 
argenteo-variegata, aureo-variegata, compacta, glauca, pendula, variegata, and 
viridis; obtusa (Syn. Retinospora obtusa), spreading habit, 50 to 70 ft., Japan, and 
ita varieties, albo-picta, aurea, compacta, filicoides, gracilis aurea, lycopodoides, 
nana, plumosa (Syn. Retinospora plumosa), plumosa argentea, plumosa aurea, 
plumosa tetragonia aurea, and plumosa variegata; pisifera (Syn. Retinospora 
pisifera), slender, graceful habit, 18 to 20 ft., Japan, and its varieties, filifers, 
plumosa, and squarrosa; sempervirens, pyramidal habit, 40 to 60 ft., 8. Europe, 
and its varieties horizontalis and orientalis; thyoides (Syn. Retinospora ericoides), 
the White Cedar, 80 to 90 ft., United States, and its varieties, glauca (kewensis), 
variegata and leptoclades. 
Cups-and-Saucers (Cobzxa scandens).—See Cobea. 
Curculigo tag nb erp Amaryllidacee. Stove orn. 
evergreen foliage plants. First introduced 1805. Leaves, strap-like, 
recurved, dark green, variegated with white. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts lumpy peat & loam & little silver 
sand. Position, pots in moist plant stove. ‘ot, Feb. or March. Water 
moderately in winter, freely other times. Temp., Sept. to March 55° 
to 65°; March to Sept. 75° to 85°. Propagate iy suckers inserted in 
small pots of sandy soil in temp. 85° in March. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: O, recurvata, 3 to 4 ft., Trop, Asia; recurvata varie- 
gata, variegated foliage. 
Currant.—See Ribes. 
Cushion Pink (Silene acaulis & Armeria maritima).—See Silene 
& Armeria. 
Custard Apple (Anona reticulata)—See Anona. 
Cyananthus.—0Ord. Campanulacex. Hardy alpine herbaceous 
perennials. First introduced 1844. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts sandy peat & leaf-mould. Posi- 
tion, sunny banks or crevices of rockeries. Plant, March or April. 
Protect in severe weather with ashes or leaves. Propagate by cuttings 
of shoots 2in. long inserted in sandy peat, in April, May, or June, & 
kept under bell-glass; division of fleshy roots in March or April. 
ECIES CULTIVATED: O. incanus, azure-blue, August, 83 to 4 in., Sikkim; 
lobatus, purplish blue, August, 4 in., Himalayas. 
Cyanella.—Ord. Hzmodoracee. MHalf-hardy bulbous plants. 
Nat. Cape of Good Hope. First introduced 1768. Flowers, fragrant. 
CULTURE: Compost, two parts sandy soil, one part leaf-mould or 
decayed cow manure. Position, pots 44 in. in diameter, well drained, 
in cold frame or greenhouse. Pot, Oct., placing five bulbs 2 in. deep in 
each pot, & covering pots with cocoanut-fibre refuse until growth be- 
gins. Water moderately when bulbs begin to grow; keep bulbs dry 
Sept. to Jan. Propagate by offsets in Nov. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: 0. alba, white, Jnly, 1 ft.; is, blue, July, 1 ft.; 
lutea, yellow, July, 1 ft. m Serer ery eae 
Cyanophyllum.—See Miconia. 
Cyathea (Tree Fern).—Ord. Filices. Stove & greenhouse ever- 
green tree ferns, First introduced 1793. 
CULTURE: Compost, two-thirds peat & loam, & abundance of sand. 
Position, large pots or tubs, well drained, in shady stove, greenhouse, 
or conservatory. Repot, Feb. or March. Water moderately Oct. to 
March, freely afterwards. Syringe trunks daily March to Sept. 
Temp., Sept. to March 50° to 65° for stove, 45° to 65° for greenhouse; 
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