More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Cauliflower
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a garden variety of the common cabbage. The name is the same as "coleflower." The cauliflower head is really a monstrosity. The common cabbage forms a head of closely compacted leaves. The head of the cauliflower consists of the flowering parts greatly shortened and grown fleshy. The head is merely a perverted flower-stalk--a botanical monstrosity. Methods of sowing, transplanting, and cultivating are the same as for cabbage. The cauliflower does not head in hot weather. Unless grown in a cool locality cauliflowers should be set out early, to head before midsummer, or else they should be set out late, to head after the heat of midsummer has passed. Cauliflower is not frost-proof, but the heads can endure ten or twenty degrees of frost if left standing in the garden.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an esculent vegetable consisting of the fleshy, young, undeveloped inflorescence of a variety of Brassica oleraceæ, hardly different from broccoli, except in being whiter and less hardy. It is said to have been imported from Cyprus about the middle of the 16th century. A very rich, light, warm soil is required for cauliflower, which must be sown in beds, ds, and afterward transplanted into sheltered situations, where they can be protected when young with hand-glasses. They are sown in August for a spring crop, in February for a summer crop, and in May in order to come in at the end of autumn and beginning of winter. The cauliflower is a light, easily digested, and nutritious vegetable aliment.
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Cavite
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a small seaport port of Luzon, Philippine Islands; about 11 miles S. W. of Manila and fronting directly on the bay; pop. about 5,000. The town dates almost from the first occupation of the Spaniards and was elaborately fortified with docks and arsenals in the 18th century. Subsequently these works were permitted to decay and Cavite became a place of minor importance. On May 1, 1898 , Admiral Dewey won his great victory over Admiral Montojo , off Cavite. The town gives its name to a province; area, 610 square miles ; pop . about 140,000. The principal crops are sugar, rice, and coffee.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ka-ve-ta', a province and city in the southwestern part of the island of Luzon, Philippines. The province has a population of 134,500. The town is situated on an island harbor. It was the scene of Admiral Dewey's victory over the Spanish fleet, May 1, 1898. It is now the naval headquarters of the United States in the Philippines. Population, about 3,000. Both province and town are tributary to Manila, with which there is communication both by water and by good roads. See Philippines
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Cecrops
1000 Classical Characters: A hero of the Pelasgic race, said to have been the first king of Attica . Cecrops is said to have founded Athens , the citadel of which was called Cecropia after him, to have divided Attica into twelve communities, and to have introduced the first elements of civilized life; he instituted marriage, abolished bloody sacrifices, and taught his subjects how to worship the gods.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: se'krops, in Greek legend, the first king of Athens. According to older legends, he was half man and half dragon. He brought civilization to Greece, introducing agriculture, navigation, and commerce. Later accounts mention him as of Egyptian origin.
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Central America
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a geographical division, including the stretch of territory from the Isthmus of Panama to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, but by political arrangements the limits most generally assigned to it include the Republics of Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, with British Honduras. It thus has Mexico on the N. W., Colombia on the S. E., and the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea on either side. Its entire length may be about 800 miles, with a breadth varying from between 20 and 30 to 350 miles. It is generally mountainous, contains a number of active volcanoes, and on the whole is a rich and fertile, but almost totally undeveloped region. The area is about 220,000 square miles; the pop., about 5,500,000.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: that part of North America lying south of Mexico. See Costa Rica ; Guatemala ; Honduras ; Salvador ; Nicaragua ; Panama
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Century-Plant
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a popular name of the Agave americana, or American aloe. CEOS (sometimes called by the Italianized name of Zea or Tzia), one of the miles off Cyclades, in the Ægean Sea, 14 long, the Attic coast. It is 13 miles 8 square miles in area. The broad and 39 is Mount central and culminating point is fairly fer- Elias, 1,863 feet high. It tile, raising fruit, wine, honey, and valonia. Pop. about 4,000.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Agave Modern folding machine. Bookbinding Italian Renaissance binding. Saxon binding of sixteenth century. Bookbinding
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Cerberus
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the three-headed dog which guards the entrance of the king . dom of Hades and Persephone Ordescended into the inpheus, when he Eurydice, fernal regions in search of lyre; and lulled him to sleep with his him from the gate of Hercules dragged Hades, when he went to redeem Alceste. Or- The fellow-monster of Cerberus was thros. The names of these dogs appear in the Vedic poems under the forms of Sarvara and Vritra, the two dogs of Yama.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ser'be-rus, in the mythology of the ancients, the watch dog of the infernal regions. He is represented generally with three heads, the central one more or less human in appearance, with the tail of a serpent and with serpents coiled around his fore legs, body, and neck. See Hercules
1000 Classical Characters: A dog of Pluto . According to Hesiod he had fifty heads, but according to other mythologists he had three only. He was placed at the entrance to the infernal regions to prevent the living from entering, and the inhabitants of the place from escaping.
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Ceres
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the daughter of Saturn and Vesta, and goddess of corn, harvests, and tillage. To Jupiter she bore a daughter, Proserpine. Ceres corresponds with the Isis of the Egyptians, and the Demeter of the Greeks. She is represented with a garland of ears of corn on her head, holding in one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. The Romans instituted in her honor the festivals called Cerealia.
1000 Classical Characters: Known to the Greeks as Demeter . The goddess of corn and harvests, was daughter of Saturn and Vesta . She was the mother of Proserpine, who was carried away by Pluto while she was gathering flowers.
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