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CLARKIA 



This pretty and easily grown annual has been much improved in recent years, and 

 the varieties offered below are now seen as cut flowers in most of the large cities of 

 Europe; they do well either in sun or shade, growing 2 to 2i feet high, with leafy racemes 

 of double flowers, which all open in water when cut. (See cut.) 



PER PKT 



1981 Elegans Alba Fl. PI. Very double, pure white $0 lo 



1984 — Brilliant. Rich crimson scarlet; very double 10 



1982 - Salmon Queen. Extra double, salmon pink ; 10 



1983 - Vesuvius. A briUiant orange-scarlet 10 



A pkt. each of the 4 sorts, 30 cts. 



1990 Elegans Double Mixed. A fine mixture containing all the colors. | oz., 

 25 cts 



10 



CLEOME 



(Giant Spider Flower ) 

 2002 Gigantea. In our trial grounds 

 this proved to be the finest Cleome 

 we have ever seen. The plants at- 

 tain a height of 3J feet, well 

 branched, eachbranchterminated 

 by a large head of bright rosj^- 

 crimson flowers. It makes a 

 striking subject for large beds or 

 for interspersing in the shrubbery 

 border, and is used extensively in 

 many of the public parks. Seeds 

 should be sown in the open 

 ground as soon as the weather is 

 warm and settled, and the 

 plants given suflicient room to 

 develop their full beauty. J 

 oz., 25 cts. 



COBAEA SCANDENS 



Clarkia 



COBAEA 



(Cups and Saucer Vine or 

 Cathedral Bells) 



A climber of rapid growth, attaining 

 a height of 30 to 50 feet during the sea- 

 son; valuable for covering trellises, arbors, 

 trunks of trees, etc.; will cling to any 

 rough surface. In sowing, place seeds 

 edgewise and merely cover with light soil; 

 to get early results start the seed indoors in 

 March or April; can also be sown out-of- 

 doors in May. (See cut.) 



PER PKT. 



2021 Scandens. Large, bell- 

 shaped purple flowers. \ oz., 



25 cts so 10 



2022 Scandens Alba. Pure white. 15 



COLEUS (Flame Nettle) 



2040 Dreer's Hybrids. Our strain of hybrid varieties produces the finest colored, 

 most attractive and novel foliage plants for house or garden culture. A most 

 mterestmg subject to grow from seed. Easily raised. Sow indoors in March 

 or April -i; 



Ornatus. Splendid, large-leaved variety, with strikingly handsome varie- 

 gated foliage; of great value for all decorative purposes 



2041 



25 



Cleome Gigantea 



COREOPSIS 



2071 Lanceolata Grandiflora. This is one of the finest of hardy plants, with 

 large, showy bnght yellow flowers, produced in the greatest abundance from 

 June till frost. As a cut flower they stand near the head among hardy plants, 

 having long stems and lasting in good condition a week or more Easily 

 grown from seed, flowering the first year if sown early. Illustrated on 

 page 81. I oz., 25 cts. 



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