. 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. CANTUA CANTITA (from Cantu, Peruvian name). PolemoniA- ce(B. Ten species of South American flowering slinibs witli very variable foliage and showy, tubular fls. of va- rious colors. C. buxifolia is cult, out of doors in , and is recommended in Europe as a coolhouse shrub. Probably no tenderer than Fuchs
. 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. CANTUA CANTITA (from Cantu, Peruvian name). PolemoniA- ce(B. Ten species of South American flowering slinibs witli very variable foliage and showy, tubular fls. of va- rious colors. C. buxifolia is cult, out of doors in , and is recommended in Europe as a coolhouse shrub. Probably no tenderer than Fuchsias. Prop, by cuttings. btmldlia, Lam. (('. d, i^f'mh us. Pers.). Much branched shrub, about i ft. lii^'h ; more or less downy: Ivs. very variable. ^ -2in. long, red, usually streaked ; limb of fringed, obcordate, crimson lobes : stamens included. Peru. 7:650. 1858, p. 294. —One of the choicest of European green- house plants. Very liable to red spider in our climate. C bicolor, hem. Distinguished from the above by the entire Ivs., which are shorter, abnut 1 in. long, and the solitary fls., with a short, yellow tube, tlie liiuli not fringed. The lis. droop, but not vertically. Peru. 47'.''J. '^. 4:343. Probably less de- sirable than the above.— <'. p^jrifolia, Pers. Lvs. generally broader and more toothed tlum in C. bicolor: fls. as many as 17, in an erect, terminal, compound corymb ; calyx red-tipped, nearly half as long as the yellow corolla tube : corolla about long, with a white limb : stamens long, exserted. Peru. "- ":383. -nr. M. CAPE Treated CAPSICUM 241. CAPE GOOSEBEEEY CAPE PONDWEED. See Aponogeion. _ CAPEE. See Capparis. L'aper-spurge,see .BnpAor- hia Lathyms. CAPPAEIS (Greek, coper). Caper-bush, or Caper Tree. Cappariddcece. Capers are pickles made by preserving the flower buds of C. spinosa, a straggling shrub which grows out of old walls, rocks, and rubbish in Mediterranean regions and
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