162 GARDENING FOR YOUNG AND OLD. 



COCKSCOMB CELOSIA. 



The Celosia, or Cockscomb, is a very interesting and 

 attractive, though not particularly beautiful plant. The 

 flower-stem, instead of growing erect, assumes the form 

 of a cock's comb, and in the hands of skillful gardeners, 

 with the aid of high manuring, this fasciated compound 

 flower-stem attains an enormous size. One was exhib- 

 ited in London eighteen inches in breadth. To attain 

 any thing like this size, the plants should be started early 

 and set out in the richest of soil. The plants may be 

 grown as recommended for Asters; except that when set 

 out in the garden, they should be allowed more room to 

 spread themselves. If the object is to grow as large flow- 

 ers as possible, the more room you give the plants the 

 better. Ordinarily the plants may be set out from two 

 and one half to three feet apart. 



CONVOLVULUS, OR MORNING GLORY. 



We have two kinds of Morning Glory; one is a climb- 

 ing plant, growing with great rapidity, and throwing out 

 a constant succession of flowers. The other is a dwarf 



Fig. 39. DWARF CONVOLVULUS, FLOWER AND PLANT. 



plant. If we 'were speaking of beans, we should call 

 one the pole kind, and the other the bush kind. The 

 botanist has called one Ipomcea purpurea, and the other 

 Convolvulus tricolor. The first named is a very rapid- 



