A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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CHIVE or CIVE {Allivm Schanoprasum).
Is used as a very superior
substitute for young onions in spring
saladinp. A single row a few yards
Jong, will supply a family.
Soil.—A light rich soil is most suitable,
but it vvill grow anywhere not
overshadowed.
Plant the offsets of the bulbs early in
spring. They are to be inserted by the
dibble eight or ten inches apart, and
eight or ten offsets in each hole. The
only cultivation required is to keep
them free from weeds. By autumn they
multiply into large-sized bunches, and
if required may be taken up as soon as
the leaves decay, and be stored as a
substitute for the onion. The leaves,
which are fit for use as long as they
remain green, must, when required, be
cut down close to the ground, when
they will speedily be succeeded by
others.
CHLIDANTHUS fragrans. Greenhouse
bulbous perennial. Division.
Two-thirds sandy loam, one-third sand
and peat.
CHLOANTHES. Three species.
Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.
Loam and peat.
CHLORA. Two species. Hardy
annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
CHLORANTHUS. Three species.
Stove evergreen shrubs. C. monastachye
is herbaceous. Cuttings. Loam
and peat.
CHLORIDE OF LIME, or Bleaching
—
CHORISPORA tenella, and variety.
Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
CHOROMOZEMA, Eight species.
Green-house evergreen shrubs. Seeds
or cuttings. Peat, loam, and sand.
CHOU DE MILAN. See Borecole.
CHRISTMAS ROSE. Helleborus
niger.
CHRIST'S EYE. Inula oculus
Christi.
CHRIST'S THORN. Paliitrus.
CHRYSANTHEMUM. C. sinense.
Often designated the Chinese chrysanthemum.
Varieties of this flower are numerous,
but the following is as good a selection
as can be made. Those to which an
asterisk is prefixed, are most deserving
Powder, is composed of
of attention:
Abelard, quilled pink.
Achmet Bey, dark purple.
Adventure, yellow.
Annie Jane, brownish red.
Annie Salter, pale yellow.
Aristides, orange and brown.
*Beaute de Verseilles, yellow.
Beauty, pale lilac.
Belvidere, buff and rose.
Bertram, purplish rose.
Bethulia, large purple.
Bicolor, white and yellow.
Bijou, white, tipped with pink.
*Campestroni, purple.
*Celestial, blush.
Champion, lemon.
Chancellor, white and pink.
Changeable, yellow.
Columbus, rose.
Chlorine
63.23 Compactum, white.
Lime
36.77 Comte d'Eu, light red.
Exposed to the air it is converted into Conductor, orange.
chalk, and muriate of lime, a salt which Criterion, white.
absorbs moisture from the air very
powerfully. By this conversion it be-
David, yellow.
De Crequi, small rosy purple.
comes a useful addition to soils ; and as Defiance, white.
it also gives out some chlorine gas, so
offensive and destructive to insects, it
Demosthenes, yellow and brown.
*Duc de Conigliano, crimson.
has been suggested as a useful applica- Duchess de Montebello, light rose.
tion to the land at the time of turnip E.mpress, lilac.
sowing.
CHLORODYLON swietenia. Stove
*Exquisite, white.
Flechier, dark rose.
evergreen tree. Cuttings. Peat and
loam.
CHOCOLATE-NUT. Theohroma.
CHOISYA ternata. Stove evergreen
Florabundum, dark lilac.
*Formosum, white and yellow.
General Laborde, lilac.
*Goliath, white.
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shrub. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
CHOKE. Cerasus hyemalis.
CHOMELIA. Two species. Stove
evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam
Gouvain St. Cyr, orange.
*Grand Napoleon, purple.
Grandish, flesh colour.
Hardy, blush white.
and peat.
Horace, purplish rose.