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yellow color. Many people prefer them to flowers and they can 

 be used by the florist in several ways. You can grow this cUmber 

 in almost any location and soil as long as you provide supports for 

 it to cling to. Your customer may want a vine to cover a fence in 

 a somewhat shady place; Bittersweet will do it, and when you 

 mention the fact that it bears berries during Fall and Winter, it is 

 no trouble at all to secure the order. 



Always include a few small plants when you make up your 



order for nursery stock. 



CELOSIAS (COCKSCOMB) 



The florist hasn't much 

 use for Celosia cristata, the 

 crested Cockscomb, but it is 

 nevertheless a fine bedder, 

 easily grown from seed sown 

 about March first. The little 

 plants delight in a hotbed 

 where, with the heat, mois- 

 ture and a situation close to 

 the glass they do far better 

 than in a greenhouse. 



Among other Celosias we 

 have the Chinese Woolflow- 

 er (C. Childsii) a most attrac- 

 tive annual growing to almost 

 3 ft. in height and producing 

 large, scarlet flower heads re- 

 sembling balls of wool. Also 

 the Plume Celosia (C. Thompr 

 sonii magnifica) which pro- 

 duces large plumes of yellow 

 and red. Pride of Castle 

 Gould, a strain of this type, 

 is attractive with its compact, 

 erect habit and large flower 

 heads. 



There is perhaps nothing 

 more showy in the way of a 

 formal bed than a long bor- 

 der filled with Empress 

 Fig. 125.-CELOSIA "Pbide of Castle Gockscomb. That is where 

 Gould." By sowing seed of this Celosia these plants do best. Lill- 

 in Summer and keeping the plants shifted matic conditions also have a 

 and under glass later on, you can provide . j i . j ui, th^iv 



in FaU showy plants that are well adapted ^^^^^ deal to do With their 

 for decorative purposes success. On the other hand, 



