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LIST OF FLOWEKS. 



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August. Rather tender. About three feet high. Chelome, 



the hell- flowered. — Lat. C campanulata. A perennial plant from 

 Mexico, which blows, in July and August, a red flower. About a 



foot high. Chelone, the downy. — Lat. C. 'pensthemon. A 



perennial plant from Virginia. It is about a foot high, and 

 blows, in July and August, a flower which is yellow in the inside 

 and light purple on the outside. They are all three multiplied by 

 seed, as well as by separating their roots, in the autumn. They 

 are not very delicate, but it is best to give them a moist earth and 

 shady situation. 



458. CINERARIA, or rag-wort. — Lat. C maritima. A pe- 

 rennial plant from the sea-coasts of Provence and Languedoc. 

 Grows two feet high, and blows a shaded yellow flower from June 

 to September. Propagated by suckers and by seeds ; if the latter, 

 it blows the second year. It should have a rich soil. 



459. CISTUS, common dwarfs or little sun-floicer . — Lat. C. 

 helianthemum. A perennial plant from the south of France, blows 

 a yellow^ flower from May till September. There are varieties ; 

 white and rose-coloured, and all hardy, and are easily increased 

 from the seed, which should be brought forward in pots. 



460. CLARKEA PULCHELLA.— An annual, blowing, in 

 June and July, a very pretty pale pink flower. The plant grows 

 about a foot high, the leaves as well as the flower are very irre- 

 gularly shaped ; and, though a very pretty flower, the plants 

 should stand thickly together, or they do not make much show\ 

 Sow^ in the beginning of April, in clumps. 



461. COLCHICUM, or meadoiD-saffron, — Lat. C. autumnale. 

 A bulbous plant common in Europe, about three or four inches 

 high, and blows a reddish purple flower in September and October. 

 Propagated from ofl'sets, taken ofl" when the leaves are quite dead,^ 

 and planted in July or the beginning of August. It is common 

 in the upland meadows of Herefordshire, and other counties of 

 England. 



462. COLUMBINE. — Lat. Aquilegia vulgaris. A perennial 

 plant, commonly found in gardens, two or three feet high, and blows 

 a blue, red, white, or variegated flower in June and July. It likes 

 shade, and stiff earth, and is propagated by dividing the roots in 

 the autumn. The single-flowered may be obtained by sowing the 

 seeds ; but, if sown in the spring, they seldom come up, and 

 never till the next year. 



