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.
See Cuminum.
See Lagoecia.
Cyminum. Hardy annual. Seeds. Common soil.
Four species. Half-hardy bulbous perennials. Offsetts. Loam and peat.
Many varieties. Hardy or half-hardy trailing annuals. Seeds. Good rich soil. See Cucumber.
Gourds and Pom-pions. Ten species and varieties. - Hardy trailing annuals. Seeds. Good rich soil.
Culcitium salicinum. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. - Common soil.
Cunninghamia sinensis. Greenhouse evergreen tree. Cuttings or seeds. Peat and loam.
Cunonia capensis. Green-house evergreen tree. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Seven species. Stove evergreen trees or shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
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.
Three species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam, peat; and sand.
Seven species, and some varieties. Hardy or green-house evergreen trees. Seeds or cuttings. Good rich loamy soil.
Two species. - Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. - Sandy loam.
Six species, and variety. Stove or green-house herbaperennials. Offsets. Loam and peat.
Twenty-one species. Stove herbaceous perennials. From C. longa turmeric is obtained. Offsets. Rich light soil.
See Sphinx.
Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings, put for a few days in the sun. Sandy loam.
Three species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
Cyamopsis psoraloides. Hardy annual. Seeds. Common soil.
Five species. Greenhouse bulbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy loam and peat.
Three species. Greenhouse biennials. Seeds. Rich mould. C. barbata is a hardy herbaceous perennial. Increased by division.
Two species. Stove evergreen ferns. Division or seeds. Peat and loam.
Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
Five species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Suckers. Rich loam.
Cyclanthus plumieri. Curious stove herbaceous perennial. Suckers. Loam and peat.
Five species. Hardy, half-hardy, or green-house bulbous perennials. Bulbs. Peat, loam and sand.
Three species, and four varieties. Hardy deciduous fruit trees or shrubs. Suckers. Any soil suits them. C. vulgaris, the quince.
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.
Four species. Stove evergreen climbers. Cuttings. Loam and peat.
Seventeen species. Stove orchids. Division. The terrestrial kinds, loam and peat. The epiphytal, wood.
 
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