The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Conspicuus – Chaerophyllum Sativum

Conspicuus

Perianth sulphur-white, passing off white; cup conspicuously edged with orange-scarlet, and expanded.

Crown Prince

Perianth creamy-white, broad; cup canary, margined with orange. Foliage strong, erect.

Caroline Hogg

Fruit medium, roundish, or Bergamot-shape; eye open, in a large basin; skin thick, brown-russet, flushed; flesh juicy, sweet, melting, and rich. December. A dessert Pear of first quality.

Comte de Lamy

Fruit small, roundish; eye small, slightly depressed; skin greenish-yellow, flushed; flesh white, melting, juicy, and very pleasant. October. A dessert Pear of great excellence.

Chaptal

Fruit greenish-white, small, round; flesh firm, sweet, watery; bunches long-tapering, rather loose. A very free-growing, mid-season Sweetwater variety, resembling a large form of ROYAL MUSCADINE.

Chasselas Rose

Fruit clear rosy-red, small, round; flesh firm, juicy, sweet, and pleasant; bunches long-cylindrical, well set. An early Sweetwater; a pretty variety of the ROYAL MUSCADINE.

Chasselas Vibert

Fruit clear greenish-white, medium, round; flesh firm, tender, sweet, and pleasant; bunches small, compact, well set. A very early Sweetwater Grape.

Calimeris

Included under Aster (which see).

Cape Poison Bulb

See Buphane disticha.

Carregnoa

A synonym of Tapeinanthus (which see).

Celmisia

(so called after Celmisius, who was said to be the son of the nymph Alciope, from whom the name of a nearly-related genus is derived). ORD.

Chaerophyllum Sativum

A synonym of Anthriscus cerefolium (which see).

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