This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Three species. Stove palms. Seeds. Rich soil and a moist warm atmosphere.
Six species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam.
Seven species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Loam and peat.
One hundred species. Chiefly stove or green-house evergreen shrubs. Some are annuals, and a few herbaceous perennials. Cuttings. Light loamy soil, or loam and peat.
Five species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. C. aureci is an herbaceous perennial. C.spectabilis, an evergreen annual. Division, cuttings, or seed. Loam and peat.
Chestnut. Five species and some varieties. Hardy deciduous trees. C. indica is a stove evergreen. Seeds or grafts. Common soil.
Castanospermum auslrale. Green-house evergreen fruit tree. Layers. Loamy soil.
Castelea erecta. Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
Four species. The stove evergreen shrubs succeed in loam and peat, and increase by cuttings. The hardy herbaceous and annuals by division or seeds. Sandy peat.
Nine species. Greenhouse evergreen trees. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Three species. Hardy deciduous and stove evergreen trees. Seed, layers, or cuttings. Loam and peat.
Two species. C. caerulea, hardy herbaceous perennial. C. lutea, an annual. Seed. Common soil.
Cataphagus, a synonyme of Ela-ter. See Wireworm.
Seventeen species and some varieties. Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood.
See Silene.
This is the young of either the butterfly or the moth, in its first state after emerging from the egg. There are many kinds, and the best mode of preventing their invasions, is to destroy every butterfly, moth, chrysalis, and egg that can be found. Hand-picking, dusting with lime, or soot, and other modes of destroying the caterpillar, are mentioned when noticing the plants they attack. Wherever a solution of ammonia, in the proportions of one to nine of water can be applied by the syringe, it will destroy many minute caterpillars undiscerned by the eye. Sparrows and other small birds in early spring should not be scared from the garden, for they destroy myriads of caterpillars. At that season they can do no harm if the gardener properly guards his seed beds. Boys paid a halt-penny per dozen for leaves having eggs or smaller caterpillars upon them, have been found to keep a garden free for a whole season for about seven shillings.
Three species. Stove evergreen trees and shrubs. Cuttings. Light turfy loam and peat.
Two species and varieties. Stove evergreen shrubs. Seeds or cuttings. Common soil.
C. pusillus is an annual, and requires a light rich soil.
Twenty-two species and some varieties. Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood.
Twenty-two species. Chiefly stove or green-house evergreen shrubs; some are hardy deciduous. C. perennis is herbaceous. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
 
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