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CHOROZEMA TRIANGULARIS I gi'owii at Brooklands Nui'sei*y. 
CULTURE OF THE GENUS CHOKOZEMA. 
use it with caution, and not more tlian twice a week. That prepared from sheep's dung 
soot is the hest, but it must be used in a perfectly clear state. 
Cliorozemas are subject to the attacks of 
red spider, and also to thrips and mildew ; 
the best remedy for the whole of these pests 
is sulphur' and water, vigorouslj' and plenti- 
fully supplied. Take a plant and lay it upon 
its side in the open air, then with a syringe 
wash it thoroughly, and after watering dust 
it with sulphur, and repeat the dressing until 
the pest is destroyed. C. Henchmanni and 
angustifolia are the most subject to mildew, 
but it may be destro)-ed by the timely appli- 
cation of sulphur and water. 
The accompanying engravings represent 
C. triangularis, and a specimen of C. cordata 
grown in the Royal Botanic Garden at 
Kew, and are certainly the finest plants 
which have come under oui' notice during the 
season, not even excepting those at the exhi- 
bitions at Chiswick and the Regent's Park. 
The following are some of the most dis- 
tinct and beautiful of the species wluch are 
met with in cultivation : — ■ 
C angustifolia. — A remarkably graceful shi-ub, with long, slender, somewhat scrambling stems, having linear 
acute leaves with recurved margins, and racemes of pretty flowers, of which the standard is orange-yellow and 
the wings crimson-purple. Flowers in March and April. New HoUand. Introduced 1830. Fonnerly called 
Dilhoynia glycinifoUa. 
G. cordata. — An elegant dwarf shi'ub, with many slender branches, clothed with sessile cordate obtuse, spiny- 
toothed leaves, and bearing the flowers in more or less drooping racemes. They are orange in the standard, with 
scarlet or crimson wings, sometimes scarlet with purple. Flowers in March and April. New Holland. Intro- 
duced in 1836. There ai-e numerous varieties as regards the colour of the flowers. A fine variety of this species, 
with a more vigorous habit, and larger and deeper coloured flowers, is called 0. cordata Zawrenceana. 
C. Dicksoni. — A handsome, dwarf, bushy-growing shiiib, fiuiushed with narrow leaves, and bearing a pro- 
fusion of beautiful dull scarlet and yellow flowers, something in the way of C. Henchmanni. Flowers from March 
to May. New HoUand. Introduced in 1836. 
C.flava. — A very pretty and distinct form for the cultivator, though regarded by some botanists as a variety of 
cordata. It is of erect, slender habit, with elongate ovate leaves sinuately toothed on the margin, the teeth spiny ; 
the flowers are in racemes, the standard deep clear yellow, the wings much paler, or lemon-coloiu*ed. Flowers in 
March and April. New HoUand. Introduced about 1848. 
C. Henchmanni. — A hairy shrub, with short twiggy branches, covered with needle-shaped leaves, and bearing 
numerous axiUary racemes of flowers, which are very ornamental, Ught scarlet, ivith a yeUow mark at the base of 
the standard. Flowers from April to June, and sometimes onwards tiU September. New HoUand, Introduced 1 825. 
C iltcifolia. — A difi'use spreading shrub, with oblong lanceolate pinnatifidly spinous leaves, and bearing scarlet 
flowers, the standard marked with yeUow at the base. Flowers from March to August. New HoUand. Intro- 
duced 1803. 
C. ovata. — A handsome shi'ub, with weak, ascending, winged stems, furnished with ovate-acute leaves, and 
bearing short racemes of showy flowers, usually scarlet, with the wings crimson. Flowers fi-om Mai-ch to May. 
New HoUand. Introduced 1830. 
C spectabilis. — A very beautiful smaU slu'ub, with slender, twining or scrambling stems, the leaves of which are 
elliptic-lanceolate, obovate, or cuneate, and the flowers pale orange in the standard, tinged with crimson, the wings 
being crimson ; they grow in long di'ooping racemes. Flowers from AprU to July. New HoUand. Infroduced 1839. 
C. triangularis. — A beautiful, dwarf, spreading shrub, of branching habit, with sub-hastate leaves, pianatifldly 
spinous on the margin, and the flowers in short racemes, the standard scarlet, the wings pm-ple. Flowers in 
March and April. New HoUand. Introduced 1830. 
C. varia.- A dwarf, compact-growing species, mth variable leaves ; in some forms broadly ovate, toothed, and 
spiny on the margins, in others almost entire, and sometimes nearly round in outline. The flowers arc very 
numerous, in short racemes, large and showy, usuaUy orange, with crimson wings. Flowers from AprU to July. 
New HoUand. Introduced in 1837. The variety caUed C. varia nana, of remarkably dwai-f habit, is the best 
for a Umited coUection, though there are two or thi-ee other very distinct and beautiful forms. 
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