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Title: Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Oliver, George Watson, 1858-1923 Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891- joint author
Subjects: Gardening Greenhouses
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, C. fragrans, and its variety C /. grandiflora \are grown solely on account of the wonderful perfume emitted bythe rather inconspicuous flowers. Cut in the bud state they openout well if kept indoors with the stems in water. Propagation. It is a trifle slow to increase from cuttings of the*ripened wood, doing better from the half ripe wood, with the fohageattached. Large plants are secured in a short period by layeringin Midsummer. CHIONANTHUS (Fringe Tree). The native species, C.virginica, of this shrub sometimes grows to a height of 30 feet; butspecimens will give an abundance of bloom when only a few feet high.The flowers are disposed in drooping panicles, are pure white incolor and very graceful. Propagation. It is raised from seed and by budding onstocks of Fraxinus ornus. CISTUS (Rock Rose). An erect, very handsome shrub, withlarge purple flowers somewhat resembling a single Rose. C. villosus,one of the hardier species, can be grown as far north as Washington. 302 PLANT CULTURE
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Cercis chinensis (japonica) HARDY SHRUBS 303 Propagation. Cuttings root freely, under cool treatment, latein Summer. CITRUS. As a dwarfing stock C. trifoliata is used extensivelyfor budding and grafting the different varieties of Oranges, and fora hedge plant, one that will make an almost impenetrable barrier,scarcely any other subject will answer so well. But its usefulness isyet by no means exhausted. As an ornamental shrub it makes quitean effective appearance early in the season, before the leaves appear,when covered with its pure white flowers, which are usually an inchacross. In late Summer and Fall the branches are loaded downwith its golden fruit. During some seasons this species bears twocrops of flowers—the first in Spring, the second along about themonth of August. The second crop of fruit fails to ripen beforecool weather. Propagation. Its propagation is effected by seeds, of whichthere is a plentiful supply; sown in the Fall out of doors, everyseed will germinate after

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