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mentioned the following as requiring the 
same treatment, aurea and its varieties, 
carpatica, and Barrelieri, both of which, 
though hardy, deserve pot culture; the 
same may be said of fragilis and garga- 
nica , gracilis , grandis , mollis , Ottoniana, 
and pumila complete this portion. To 
select from the other century and a half 
or nearly so of hardy species, is more 
than we can attempt, for they are all 
beautiful; we thereiore pass on to the 
annuals, merely remarking, they delight 
in rich soil, and in planting respect 
should be paid to their respective heights 
and colours, that when in flower, the 
grouping may be harmonious and per¬ 
fect. The annual species should be sown 
in March, when they are intended to 
bloom, taking the precaution to properly 
thin them out before the plants become 
large, as a crowded position militates 
very much against an abundant bloom¬ 
ing ; they are emphatically “ children of 
the free air,” and must be treated as 
such. Perhaps the most deserving are 
such as capensis , erinus, Herminii , Lae- 
flingii , Lorei, and ramosissima. 
CANAEINA (Linn.) Nat. Order 
Campanulacem. There are two species 
of these plants, one of which, campanu- 
lata, is common, the other, laevigata, , is 
comparatively scarce; both are desirable 
from their habit of blooming in mid¬ 
winter ; they are tuberous-rooted herba¬ 
ceous plants, which require the protec¬ 
tion of the greenhouse, and to be potted 
into light sandy loam about August, or, 
when they begin to grow, to be placed 
near the glass until they flower, and af¬ 
terwards to be kept dry until the follow¬ 
ing autumn. 
CANNA (Linn.) Nat. Order Ma- 
rantaceae. Showy, free-flowering, stove 
plants, of herbaceous characflr and easy 
culture. There are a number of species, 
but all of them may be referred to the 
same treatment: potted in light loamy 
soil and freely watered, they grow with 
rapidity, and usually flower in profusion 
for a long period.' The prevailing colours 
are scarlet, red, and yellow, and the most 
beautiful of the species are aurantiaca , 
indica , iridiflora , and lutea. 
CAPRIEOLIUM (Romes.) Nat. 0. 
Caprifoliacece. A genus of hardy climb¬ 
ing plants, well suited for covering walls, 
arbours, &c. The whole of them grow 
rapidly in common soil, and are easily 
increased by cuttings taken off in au¬ 
tumn and planted in a shaded border. 
CASSIA (Linn.) Nat. Ord. Legu- 
minosae. Like the whole of this or¬ 
der, these are handsome, free-flowering 
plants : most of them should be grown 
in the stove, though a few are sufficiently 
robust to flourish in an ordinary green¬ 
house ; they have various habits; some 
of them do not grow more than a foot 
in height, while others attain a stature 
of ten or fifteen feet; they all delight in 
light loamy soil, and do not require any¬ 
thing more than the ordinary treatment 
of plants in either station. Some of the 
species produce abundance of seed, and 
thus are increased at pleasure, the others 
are propagated by cuttings covered with 
a bell-glass and plunged in heat. 
CASAURINA (Linn.) Nat. Order 
Casauraceae. Curious and rather or¬ 
namental appendages to a large stove; 
the species obtain a considerable height, 
and then their long, pendent, rush-like 
leaves or branches having a singular ap¬ 
pearance, resembling a gigantic horse¬ 
tail ; their flowers are. equally curious, 
being apetalous. The plants should be 
grown in sandy peat, and may be treated 
as sub-aquatics. 
CATASETUM (Richaed.) Nat. O. 
Orchidaceae. The flowers of this genus 
are of the most extraordinary and op¬ 
posite characters imaginable : the lip 
of some species is large, fleshy, and hel¬ 
met-shaped, while in others it is elon¬ 
gated and flattened, the sepals and petals 
are occasionally broad and expansive, and 
again they are contracted and curved, 
either over the lip or outwards; the pre¬ 
vailing colour's are green and yellow, in 
nearly all cases thickly set with dark 
lurid purple spots. The plants are of 
rigorous habit, and grow with great 
luxuriance when potted in fibrous peat 
and rotten wood, with a mean tempera¬ 
ture of 60°, varying from 5° to 10° in 
the opposite seasons of growth and dor¬ 
mancy. Like all other Orchidaceae, the 
pseudo-bulbs should be elevated consi- 
