CEPHA L TUS— CEL SI A — C HOIS FA . 



and may be described as curiously attractive. Flowers white, but the leaves are the 

 chief feature, especially those which assume a pitcher-like form, with lid and striped 

 rim ; colour dark green with purple shading and pink veins. A greenhouse herbaceous 

 perennial, it is easily increased by division before new growth commences, and should 

 be grown in a mixture of sandy peat in lumps and chopped sphagnum moss. The pots 

 or pans used should be half filled with drainage, as it is essential that water be freely 

 applied and pass readily away. A humid atmosphere is imperative, and in order to be 

 certain of this, cover the plants with bell-glasses. Winter them in a cool greenhouse 

 and give much less water than during the growing season. 



celsia. — C. cretica (Crete), is hardy in some districts, but is more generally seen 

 in greenhouses, which are brightened, early in the summer, by its long spikes of clear 

 yellow flowers. It may be grown either as an annual or biennial. If the seed is sown 

 early in February in gentle heat, and there is no undue delay in pricking out the 

 seedlings and subsequently shifting them into 5-inch pots, the plants will flower freely 

 the same season. Extra strong plants can be had by sowing the seed in June in a cold 

 frame, the seedlings resulting, after being duly prepared, being forward enough to 

 shift into their flowering pots in the following March. Any good loamy mixture will 

 suit this celsia, and the plants may be wintered in a cool greenhouse or pit. They 

 should have abundance of water and liquid manure in the spring. 



ceratostemma. — C. longiflorum (Andes of Peru), is a pretty little greenhouse 

 evergreen shrub with crimson flowers, and C. speciosum (Ecuador), orange-red flowers, 

 is a good companion. Short cuttings inserted in sand and covered with a bell-glass 

 strike root readily ; sandy loam and peat in equal portions form a suitable compost. 



Oestrum, see Habrothamnus. 



choisya. — C. ternata, known as the Mexican Orange Flower, is a handsome and 

 nearly hardy evergreen shrub, which attains a height of 6 feet. The flowers produced 

 in the spring, on the tops of the branches, are white and sweet-scented. Cuttings of 

 firm young tops, 3 inches long, inserted in sandy soil and covered with glass, emit 

 roots freely in a gentle heat of 55° to 65°. Place the young plants singly in pots 

 just large enough to hold the roots, using a compost of equal parts loam, peat, leaf 

 soil, and sand, and gradually shift into larger sizes. They may be kept growing in 

 cool frames or arranged with the larger plants quite in the open during the summer. 

 In common with most other coarse-rooted evergreens, the choisya requires abundance 

 of water all through the warmer parts of the year, and ought never to be allowed to 



