. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 338 CLOVES COBBETT like odor, and it hrfs become the type of the great order Caryophyllaceas, which, however, is far removed botani- cally from the Myrtaceae. The word " gillitlower " is a corruption of caryophyllus, and, until Shakespeare's time. 500. Clove. Spray ot leaves and flowers (1); an unopen
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 338 CLOVES COBBETT like odor, and it hrfs become the type of the great order Caryophyllaceas, which, however, is far removed botani- cally from the Myrtaceae. The word " gillitlower " is a corruption of caryophyllus, and, until Shakespeare's time. 500. Clove. Spray ot leaves and flowers (1); an unopened bud or clove (3); the expanded flower (2). and after, was applied to the carnation, but now-a-days it usually refers to several cruciferous plants of the genus Cheiranthus and Matthiola. CLUB MOSS. See Lycopodhtm, CNlCtJS (Greek, knizein, to injure). Compdsitm. Thistle. A genus of perhaps 200 species, containing many much-hated weeds, especially the common Thistle, C. lanceolatus, and the Canada Thistle, C. arvensis, Pig. 501. About a dozen species have been slightly culti- vated in rockeries and wild gardens. The genus Chamae- peuee, now referred to Cnieus, contains 3 plants slightly used abroad in subtropical and carpet bedding: CAfer, C. Casabonm, and C. Diacanfha, which are cult, for their rosettes of prickly Ivs. The fls. appear the second year. C. henedictus is an old name of the Blessed This- tle, for which see Oarbenia. was a pamphlet entited," Observations on Dr. Priestly's Emigration," a bitter attack on the French Revolution. He took the loyalist side in American politics, and is re- garded as the founder of the American party press. His attack on Benjamin Rush, the leading physician of Philadelphia, for his advocacy of unlimited bleeding for yellow-fever, resulted in a libel suit, and damages of $5,000, which nearly ruined Cobbett, and sent him to England in June, 1800. In 1802 he began "Cobbett's Weekly Political Register," which he edited fo
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