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CHALCAS EXOTICA. Orange jessamine. One of the most 

 attractive of evergreen shrubs for formal plantings in gardens 

 and dooryards. Its rounded outline, glossy, dark-green foliage, 

 panicles of white, beU-shaped, fragrant flowers, followed by smaU 

 red berries, have made it a general favorite in southern Europe for 

 outdoor and greenhouse use. Hardy in Florida. Also known as 

 Murraya exotica. 



CHAYOTA EDULIS. Chayote or mirHton. Perennial, ramp- 

 ant, climbing cucurbit, bearing annual crops of green or white pear- 

 shaped fruits, more delicate in flavor than squash. Excellent 

 creamed, stewed, as salad, or baked with meats. Good shipper. A 

 promising truck crop on well-drained, fertile, sandy-loam soils. 

 Fruits prolifically in Florida, southern California, and around New 

 Orleans. 



CHENOPODKIM QUINOA. TaU annual, largely cultivated on 

 the dry slopes of the Andes for its nutritious but acrid seeds used in 

 soups or prepared similar to rice in several changes of water. Recom- 

 mended for trial as a substitute for spinach, for which purpose its 

 leaves have long been used in France during the hot off season for 

 this vegetable. Its culture is similar to mustard. 



42202. CHILOPSIS LINEARIS. Mimbres. CoUected by Dr. 

 David Griffiths of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Handsome flow- 

 ering tree related to the catalpa, which it resembles only in its smaller 

 purple-tinged flowers. Its leaves, however, are wiUowlike. The 

 tree is quite open in habit, but it stands pruning and can be easily 

 shaped as desired. Native from western Texas to California and 

 southward. 



CHIONANTHUS RETUSA. Chinese fringe tree. One of the 



most attractive and distinguished of hardy deciduous shrubs. Some- 

 what resembles the American fringe tree (C. virginiana), but has the 

 abundant shorter and broader panicles erect, and flowers on the 

 young shoots of the year. Flowers snow white; the coroUa having 

 four strap-shaped petals three-fourths of an inch long. The whole 

 shrub is usually a mass of bloom in June and July. 



42292. CHORISIA INSIGNIS. Palo borracho. Presented by 

 Senor Benito J. Carrasco, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ornamental 

 flowering tree with a very thick trunk, related to the ''silk floss tree" 

 which is cultivated in southern California. Flowers yeUowish, striped 

 with brown, about the size of those of the flowering dogwood {Comus 

 florida). Native of northern Argentina. 



