Identifier: cu31924053956946 (find matches)
Title: The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Robert Patrick, 1857- ed
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, The Gresham publishing company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eing, produced in England. It is not aneconomical cheese as a food, because only thesoft interior of it is edible. Indeed it must beregarded as a luxury rather than a food. (j. p. s.) Cammock. See Best Harrow. Camomile.—A well-known domestic tonicand febrifuge known as Camomile Tea is madefrom the flower-heads of Anthemis nohilis, aperennial herb wild and cultivated in this andother countries, being grown as a field crop atMitcham. The double-flowered form is pre-ferred. The flowers are also used in fomenta-tions. The plant has branching stems, the leavesdivided into linear segments, and the flowersare daisy-like, the ray flowers being absent insome forms. See Chamomile. _(w. w.) Campanula.—This is the technical namefor a genus of herbaceous dicotyledons be-longing to the nat. ord. Campanulacese, or truebluebells. The best-known species is theHarebell or Bluebell of Scotland (Campanularotundifolia). The Eampion (Campanula Ra-punculus) is cultivated for its edible root. (a. n. ma.)
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Bampion (Campanula Rapunculus) About 230 species are known, and they aredistributed in all temperate and most tropicalcountries, nine of them being natives of Britain.Some of the taller kinds are excellent borderplants, while the smaller-growing, more or lesstrailing species are most serviceable for furnish-ing rockeries. Chimney Flower (C. pyramidalis)is cultivated as a biennial; it has a stout root-stock on which forms a large rosette of linear-oblong leaves, the flower-stem rising from thecentre to a height of 3 ft. to 6 ft., the flowersbeing arranged in a tall pyramid expanding inthe autumn. There are blue and white varieties.The Canterbury Bell (C. medium) is one of ourbest border plants. The seeds are sown inMarch in a frame, the seedlings transplanted toa bed in the open in June, being lifted to a bedin September, to be placed in the borders, wherethey will flower in the following June. C. per-gicifolia is a beautiful perennial, with peach-like leaves and elegant stems 2 ft. to

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