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.
Cymbopogon Schaenanthus. A stove species of grass. Seeds. Loam and peat.
Cynoche pentadactylum. Stove epiphyte. Offsets. Fibrous peat.
Twenty-two species. Hardy annuals, biennials, or herbaceous perennials. Division. Common soil.
Two species. Greenouse bullbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy pent.
Five species. Greenhouse annuals. Seeds. Common soil. C. phyteuma is a tuberous-rooted, and C. cardamincs a stove herbaceous perennial. Young shoots. Peat, loam and sand.
(See Cardoon and Artichoke.) Eight species. Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials. Seeds. Good rich soil.
Gall-fly. The species of this genus chiefly confine their attacks to the oak and other timber trees. The species chiefly noticeable by the gardener is the C. rosae, which causes the hairy galls occasionally observed upon rose trees.
Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Nine species. Green-house bulbous perennials. Offsets. Turfy loam, sand and peat.
Four species. Stove orchids. Division. Wood, with moss on the roots.
Cyrtopera Woodfordii. Stove orchid. Division. Wood.
Three species. Stove orchids. Division. Wood.
Forty-one species, and some varieties. Chiefly hardy deciduous shrubs and trees, with a few greenhouse evergreens. Seeds, layers, grafts, or buds Any soil suits them.
Czachia liliastrum. Hardy herbaceous perennial. Seeds or division. Good rich loam.
Two species. Greenhouse evergreen trees. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Dactylicapuos thalicitrifolia. Half-hardy evergreen climber. Seeds. Sandy soil.
Four species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Narcissus pseudo-narcissus.
Daisy, (Bellis perennis.) There are many double varieties of this hardy perennial; some white, others crimson, and many variegated. A more curious variety is the proliferous or Hen and Chicken Daisy. They all will flourish in any moist soil, and almost in any situation. They bloom from April to June. Propagated by slips, the smallest fragment of root, almost, enables them to grow. To keep them double and fine, they require moving occasionally. Planted as an edging round the Ranun-culus bed, their roots tempt the Wire-worm from those of the choicer flower.
Nineteen species. Stove evergreen trees and climbers. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Fifteen species, including hardy, stove, and green-house annuals and perennials. The latter by cuttings, and the annuals by seed, in a frame, to transplant to borders. Loam and peat.
Three species. Stove evergreen climbers. Cuttings. Loam and peat.
Dalibarda violaeides. Half-hardy herbaceous. Division. Common light soil.
See Plum.
Two species. Tender aquatics. Division.
 
Continue to: