Cullumbine Or Columbine

Aquilegia.

Cumin

See Cuminum.

Cumin

See Lagoecia.

Cuminum

Cyminum. Hardy annual. Seeds. Common soil.

Cummingia

Four species. Half-hardy bulbous perennials. Offsetts. Loam and peat.

Many varieties. Hardy or half-hardy trailing annuals. Seeds. Good rich soil. See Cucumber.

Cucurbita

Gourds and Pom-pions. Ten species and varieties. - Hardy trailing annuals. Seeds. Good rich soil.

Culcitium

Culcitium salicinum. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. - Common soil.

Cunninghamia

Cunninghamia sinensis. Greenhouse evergreen tree. Cuttings or seeds. Peat and loam.

Cunonia

Cunonia capensis. Green-house evergreen tree. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Cupania

Seven species. Stove evergreen trees or shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.

Cuphea

Fourteen species. - Green-house or stove annuals; and stove biennial, herbaceous perennial or evergreen shrubs. The stove species grow best in sandy loam, and increase from cuttings. The annuals - seeds. Common soil.

Cupia

Three species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam, peat; and sand.

Cupressus

Seven species, and some varieties. Hardy or green-house evergreen trees. Seeds or cuttings. Good rich loamy soil.

Curatella

Two species. - Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. - Sandy loam.

Curculigo

Six species, and variety. Stove or green-house herbaperennials. Offsets. Loam and peat.

Curcuma

Twenty-one species. Stove herbaceous perennials. From C. longa turmeric is obtained. Offsets. Rich light soil.

Currant Sphinx

See Sphinx.

Curtogyne

Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings, put for a few days in the sun. Sandy loam.

Cussonia

Three species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.

Custard Apple

Anona.

Cyamopsis

Cyamopsis psoraloides. Hardy annual. Seeds. Common soil.

Cyanella

Five species. Greenhouse bulbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy loam and peat.

Cyanotis

Three species. Greenhouse biennials. Seeds. Rich mould. C. barbata is a hardy herbaceous perennial. Increased by division.

Cyathea

Two species. Stove evergreen ferns. Division or seeds. Peat and loam.

Cyathodes

Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.

Cycas

Five species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Suckers. Rich loam.

Cyclanthus

Cyclanthus plumieri. Curious stove herbaceous perennial. Suckers. Loam and peat.

Cyclobothra

Five species. Hardy, half-hardy, or green-house bulbous perennials. Bulbs. Peat, loam and sand.

Cydonia

Three species, and four varieties. Hardy deciduous fruit trees or shrubs. Suckers. Any soil suits them. C. vulgaris, the quince.

Cylindrosporium

Cylindrosporium concentricum. A parasitical fungus often attacking the cabbage, forming a blight or mildew. Repeated syringing with water in which three ounces per gallon of salt have been dissolved, will remove it.

Cylista

Four species. Stove evergreen climbers. Cuttings. Loam and peat.

Cymbidium

Seventeen species. Stove orchids. Division. The terrestrial kinds, loam and peat. The epiphytal, wood.