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LIST OF FLOWERS. 



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August, abundance of brilliant flowers, of a rich blue and red 

 blended together. Propagate by seeds sown early in spring. 



445. C AC AlA A, sow-thistle leaved, — Lat. C. sanctifolia. An 

 annual stove plant from the East Indies, growing one foot high, and 

 blowing a flower of an orange-red colour in July. Propagated 

 from seed sowed in a frame in March. Requires very little water, 

 and should be kept out of the house during the summer. 



446. CACTUS.— Lat. C. speciosus. A perennial succulent 

 plant from Carthagena ; throws up many long fleshy leaves fes- 

 tooned at the sides, and, in May, June, and July, blows an ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful rose-coloured flower, about three inches long, 

 and double. This plant likes a mixture of light mould and brick 

 rubbish. Requires very little water except when in flower, and must 

 be brought forward in the green-house, or frame ; though, in a very 

 warm room to the south, it will blow. Force it into flower by 

 bruising the ends of the leaves ; and propagate by cuttings, which, 

 being left in a dry place for a day or two till the cut end become 

 dry, and then stuck in a pot of mould, will strike quickly ; but 

 these will not flower for a couple of years. 



447. CALTROPS, small, — Lat. Trihulus terrestris. A hardy 

 annual plant from the south of Europe, and blows a yellow flower in 

 June and July. Propagated by sowing seed in a hot-bed, and, 

 when they are fit, transplanting them where they are to remain. 



448. CAMPANULA, thepyramid. — Lat. C.pyramidalis, From 

 Savoy. A perennial plant of great beauty, which grows to about 

 four or five feet in height, with several minor branches, the main 

 one blowing a long spike, or pyramid, of delicate sky-blue flowers, 

 in the months of July and August. Propagated by seed, and by 

 parting the root. The seed should be sowed in the spring in a 

 bed of fine earth, under a hand-glass, shaded from the strong heat 

 of the sun, and watered now and then with a fine-rosed watering 

 pot. The seed comes up readily if not covered deeply, and, by 

 the fall, the plants will be fit to transplant into a nursery bed, 

 where they should remain until the following spring, when some 

 of them may be thinned out to be planted in the flower-borders, 

 where they may blow the same year ; and the rest, being carefully 

 tilled between, will be fine strong plants by the third year, and 

 may all be put out in the same manner, or potted in large wide- 

 topped pots to be brought into the house, where they make a very 

 fine show. By parting the roots after the first year of blowing. 



