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COB^E. 



CobcB scandens. Mexican Climbing Cobse. This is the 

 most rapid green-house plant known, having been found to 

 grow two hundred feet in one summer, in a conservatory. It 

 is a perennial, but will not stand the winter, and, unless culti- 

 vated in a green-house, is classed with tender annuals. It 

 flourishes well in the open air, especially if it is first started in 

 a hot-bed, in a pot, and turned into the ground in June. I 

 have found it to continue blooming after a number of moderate 

 frosts. The flowers are large, purple, and bell-shaped. The 

 foliage is handsome, and the tendrils, which are fine and silky, 

 will attach themselves to anything within reach, even a cobweb. 

 If located in a warm place, it will cover a large space before it 

 is destroyed by the frost. It can he raised by cuttings, but is 

 rather difficult to keep through the winter. 



COLLOMIA. 



Collomza coccinnea.A very lively flower, growing in heads of 

 bright carmine red, rather desirable and early. The seeds 

 have, like some of the Salvias, the curious property of becom- 

 ing invested with vegetable mucus when moistened with 

 water. 



COLLINSIA. 



Collinsia bicolor. Two-colored Collinsia. A beautiful 

 hardy annual, with white and light-purple flowers, which are 

 numerous and pretty in June and July ; one foot high. 



C. graiidijlora. Large-flowering Collinsia. This is 

 another beautiful species, with large flowers, blue and purple ; 

 flowering at the same time, and about the same height, but 



