. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. CAULIFLOWER. A flowering-headed cabbage, resem- bling brocoli, but less hardy. CECIDOMZIA TRITICA Is the generic name for the British ^Vileat-midge, which is very destructive to wheat crops in this country in certain seasons. The eggs are conveyed into the culms whilst llie plant is in llow er ; and when they hatch, the larvn; abstract the juices, and cause the gra
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. CAULIFLOWER. A flowering-headed cabbage, resem- bling brocoli, but less hardy. CECIDOMZIA TRITICA Is the generic name for the British ^Vileat-midge, which is very destructive to wheat crops in this country in certain seasons. The eggs are conveyed into the culms whilst llie plant is in llow er ; and when they hatch, the larvn; abstract the juices, and cause the grain to shrivel. CEDAR-TREES. The cedar is renowned in sacred hi«- tory and jioetry. It was introduced into England after the middle of the seventeenth century, and is much valued as an ornamental tree. A few magnifi- cent specimens exist in this country. One at Claremont, near London, loo feet high ; another at Strathfieldsaye. loS feet high, with a trunk 3 feet and a head 74 feet in diameter; a third at Sion House is 72 feet high, with a trunk 8 feet in diameter 3 feet from the ground, and a head 117 feet in diameter. Jn Scotland and Ireland the tree is of more recent introduction. Cedars out- live several generations of human-kind ere they arrive at maturity. Tliey do not commence yielding cones until forty and sometimes not until one hundred years old. CELERY. An excellent garden root, which de- lights in a deep rich soil and trench f'ultivation. It i«, no doubt, a product. of the cultivator's art, derived from the wild celery, or smallage, that grows in ditches and marshy places. CENTAUREA NIGRA. The common Knap-weed, Horse- knot, or Hardhead, is a plant very nearly allied to the thistle, and, like it, infesting old pastures, and very diffi- cult in removal. It is considered of no use whatever, but a mere robber of the land. CEPHUS PYGM^US, Commonly known as the Corn Saw- fly. The females lay their eggs in the straw of rye and wheat, below the first joint, or underneath th
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