MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



COBEA SCANDENS. 



This beautiful climbing 

 plant is particularly des- 

 irable for walls, porches 

 or trellises because of the 

 rapidity of its growth. It 

 is also well adapted for 

 the greenhouse or conser- 

 vatorj', making a beauti- 

 ful window decoration, or, 

 if set two feet apart and 

 trained over brush, the 

 plants make an excellent 

 screen. Its large, bell- 

 shaped lilac flowers, deli- 

 cate leaves and tendrils 

 make it a very pretty and 

 desirable plant. In good 

 soil the vine grows from 

 20 to 30 feet long, branches 

 freely and covers a large 

 surface. It is better to 

 start sefds in the house. 

 Packet, 6 cts. 



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Coleus Hybridus. 



Coccinea Indica. 



Cobea Scandens. 



COCCINEA INDICA. 



A remarkably pretty climber, with ivy-like, 

 luxuriant foliage. It bears an abundance of 

 small white flowers, which are followed by an 

 an oblongf ruit about two inches in length,which, 

 when ripe, is a bright scarlet marked with ten 

 white lines. The natives or India use the fruit 

 in their sauces. It is well adapted for arbors or 

 trellises. 10 feet. Packet, 6 cts. 



COLEUS HYBRIDUS. 



These ornamental foliage plants with their 

 rich colorings in yellows, greens and reds, are 

 universally known and admired. They are in- 

 valuable for groups on lawns, ribbon and carpet 

 bedding, and also for pot culture. Although per- 

 ennial, the plants attain perfection the flrst year, 

 ^.o garden should be without them. Choicest 

 mixed. Packet, 8 cts. 



Rochester, Minn., July 6, 1S95.— "The plants raised from the seed you 

 sent nie are doing finely. Everything came up." Earl L. Cook. 





COLLINSIA. 



A genus of free-flowering California 

 annuals of great beaut v and deserving of 

 general cultivation. Tlie flowers appear 

 in whorls, there being several whorls 

 on each flower stem, and in great variety 

 of color, white, purple and crimson pre- 

 dominating. It will be found equailj' de- 

 sirable for massing or for mixed flower 

 borders. For massing, tlie seed should be 

 sown thick, so as to thin out to about four 

 inches apart, which will give the bed the 

 appearance of a solid mass. Hardy. One 

 to one and one-half feet. Finest mixed. 

 Packet, 4 cts. 



