ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
CULTURE: Compost, good fibry peat. Position, pots or hanging 
baskets, well drained. Water freely from time new growth begins 
until leaves fall off; very little other times. Temp., March to Sept. 
65° to 85°; Sept. to March 60° to 70°. Growing period, Feb. to Aug. 
Resting period, Sept. to Feb. Flowers appear at base of new pseudo- 
bulb. — Propagate by division of plants at potting time. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: ©. aureum (Golden Swan Orchid), yellow, summer, 
Central America; chlorochilum, yellow, June, Demerara; pentadactylon, yellow 
and brown, various seasons, Brazil. 
Cydonia.—See Pyrus. 
Cymbidium.—oOrd. Orchidacew. Stove terrestrial orchids. 
First introduced 1789. Flowers, fragrant. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts rough fibry peat, sphagnum moss, 
&sand. Position, pots, well rained. Repot, Feb. or March. Water 
freely in summer, moderately in winter. Temp., March to Sept. 65° 
to 85°; Sept. to March 60° to 65°. Growing period, March to Aug. 
Resting period, Sept. to Feb. Flowers appear at base of pseudo-bulb 
last formed. Propagate by division of plant at potting time. 
SPECIES OULTIVATED: OC. aloifolium, purple, sutumn, India and Ceylon; 
dayanum, yellowish white, autumn, Assam; eburno-lowianum, creamy white and 
crimson, spring, hybrid; eburnum, white ond yellow, Feb. and March, Khasya; 
giganteum, yellow, purple and crimson, winter, Nepaul; grandiflorum, yellow, 
crimson, and purple, winter, Sikkim; lowianum, yellow, cream, and maroon, Feb. 
and March, Burma; Lowio-eburnum, white, Feb., hybrid; Parishii, white, orange, 
and purple, summer, Moulmein; tigrinum, yellow, red, and crimson-purple, spring, 
Burma; traceyanum, yellow and crimson, winter, Burma. 
Cynara (Cardoon; Globe Artichoke)—Ord. Composite. Hardy 
herbaceous perennials. Immature flower heads of artichoke used as a 
bee teeta ; blanched stalks and mid ribs of leaves of cardoon also 
edible. 
CULTURE OF CARDOON: Soil, light, deep rich ordinary.. _ Posi- 
tion, open and sunny. Prepare trenches 12in. deep, 18in. wide, and 
4ft. apart from centre to centre in Oct. Fork Gin. of rotten manure 
into the soil in bottom of trench. The third week in April spread 2 
to 3in. of light vegetable mould along the trench. Sow the seeds in 
patches of three or four, lin. deep & 18in. apart, along the centre of 
trench. Thin seedlings when 3in. high to one in each patch. Place 
a stake to each plant when a foot high, & secure the leaves loosely to 
this. In Aug. draw the leaves tightly together, carefully wind a small 
hayband round each plant & cover with mould. Plants are sufficiently 
blanched for cooking eight weeks after earthing up. Seeds may be 
sown two in a 3in. fee filled with ordinary soil, placed in temp. 55° 
to 65° in March, hardened off in April, & planted out in May. 
Marker Cutrure: Same as above. Market and trim as advised 
for celery; sell by the dozen roots. 
CULTURE OF GLOBE ARTICHOKE: Soil, deep rich loam, liberally 
manured and trenched three spits deep. Position, open & sunny. 
Plant suckers, i.e., offshoots, 4in. deep in triangular groups 9 in. from 
plant to plant, 2ft. apart in rows 4 ft. asunder, early in April. Keep 
well watered first season. In Nov. surround each plant with dry 
litter & in severe weather cover with similar material, uncovering in 
mild weather. Fork surface over in March, & mulch with decayed 
manure. Apply liquid manure freely to establish plants during 
summer. Gather flower heads for use when fully developed. Seaweed 
an excellent manure. Apply in spring. Replant bed every four years. 
Propagate by offsets or suckers removed in April. Seeds do not ripen 
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