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COB^E. 



Codes scandens. Mexican Climbing Cobss. 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 be raised by cuttings, but is 

 rather difficult to keep through the winter. 



COLLOMIA. 



Collomia 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. grandiflora. 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 



