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Centaurea 



Centaureas embrace some foliage plants but are more generally known for their hardy flower- 

 ing annuals which include some of our most graceful and showy garden flowers that have 

 long been favorites for cutting. The tall slender straight or slightly branching plants with 

 narrow leaves thrive well in common garden soil. They produce bright colored single and 

 double heads of flowers on long graceful stems and some sorts are fragrant. 



Annual Varieties Cultivated for Their Flowers 



Sow seed in early spring in hotbed and transplant to open ground or sow in open ground as soon as the weather is warm and 

 settled. Cover seed about one-fourth inch deep; thin three or four inches apart. Fine for bedding or borders. The young 

 plants are very sensitive to wet, and care should be taken to prevent water standing on the leaves. 

 Cyanus (Bachelor's Button, Corn Flower) A well known, hardy border plant, also called "blue bottle" and "ragged sailor," 



which does best in carefully prepared gravelly soil. If seed is sown as soon as the ground is fit in the spring and the flowers 



picked so as to prevent the plant exhausting itself by seeding, it will furnish a profusion of bright blue, purple, white or 



pink single flowers from July until late in the autumn. Hardy annual; plant one to two feet high. Mixed. Oz. 25c. . .Pkt. 5c. 



Double Mixed (Badielor's Button) Produces larger, more globular flower-heads than the common variety. Oz. 25c " 5c. 



Odorata (Sweet Stdtan) An old fashioned hardy annual about eighteen inches high, with long-stemmed, sweet scented, 



light purple flowers Pkt. 10c. 



Marguerite. A most desirable, sweet scented Centaurea, producing 



on long stems Tmel.v laciniated, white flowers, about as large as 



a carnation, and which remain fresh and beautiful for a long 



time after cutting. Hardy annual; about eighteen inches high. 



Oz. $1.00 Pkt. Sc. 



Imperialis Mixed. An excellent sweet scented variety, also called 



Sweet Sultan. The flowers are finely laciniated and are about the 



size of a carnation. They have long stems and keep well after 



cutting. Colors range through white, rose, lilac, purple and yellow. 



Hardy annual; about eighteen inches high. Oz. 75c Pkt. 10c. 



Perennial Variety Cultivated for Foliage 



Seed should be sown under glass and the young plants grown in 

 pots or boxes until settled warm weather, when they may be set 

 about one foot apart where wanted for borders or bedding. In 

 southern latitudes seed may also be sown outdoors in fall. 



Gymnocarpa. This is also called Dusty Miller. Valuable because 

 of its finely cut silvery gray foliage and graceful drooping habit 

 of growth. Half hardy perennial; one and one-half to two feet 

 high. Oz. 65c Pkt. 10c. 



Chrysanthemum 



These outdoor "summer 

 Chrysanthemums" are 

 showy and effective for 

 bedding or borders in the garden and desirable for cut flowers. 

 Plants become more bushy and shapely if pinched back in early 

 growth and the practice of disbudding will result in much larger 

 flowers. These annuals are not tlie winter flowering sorts sold 

 by florists and which are propagated only by division of roots. 



Early Blooming Garden Sorts 



Seed may be sown in the open ground after danger of frost is 

 over and the seedlings thinned eight or ten inches apart, but the best 

 results come from sowing under cover early in I\Iay , and transplant- 

 ing the young plants to open border. Height one and one-half 

 to two feet. 

 Morning Star. Handsome, large, single flowers, bright yellow with 



deeper center; excellent for cutting Pkt. 10c. 



Carinatum Eclipse Mixed (Tricolor) Large single flowers in very 

 striking color combinations. The ray florets range from pure 

 golden yellow to nearly white, are often ringed or centered pur- 

 plish scarlet and always have a dark brown disc Pkt. 5c. 



Coronarium, double white. Very double white flowers, with petals 



reflexed and imbricated Pkt. 5c. 



Coronarium, double yellow. Very attractive, rich golden yellow 

 double flowers, about one inch across; abundantly pro- 

 duced Pkt. 5c. 



Mixed. The choicest Carinatum and Coronarium varieties, both 

 single and double Pkt. 5c. 



Centaurea Cyanus (Bachelor's Button^ 



Clematis 



Cineraria 



CHEIRANTHUS CHEIRI— (See Wallflower) 

 CHEIRANTHUS MARITIMUS — (-See Virginian Stock) 



Cinerarias are easily grown from 

 seed in the greenhouse. The 

 large heads of brilliant daisy-like 

 flowers of many colors, usually 

 sharply margined and with dark eye, are very desirable in 

 pots. The plants are often as broad as high and the velvety 

 leaves are shaded on the under side. 



Sow preferably early in fall. They thrive best in a mixture 

 of loam and peat. Perennial, usually one to two feet high. 

 Maritima candidissima (Dusty Miller) Cultivated for its hand- 

 some, silvery white foliage; very ornamental as a decorative 

 pot plant, or for bedding. Half hardy perennial, one to two 



feet high. Oz. 30c Pkt. 10c. 



Hybrida, choicest mixed. Large flowering " 25c. 



Hybrida, very dwarf, mixed. Large flowered, eight inches high. 

 Blooms profusely; many colors Pkt. 25c. 



/^1of*|riQ Beautiful.hardy annuals with rose colored, white 

 ^^*^' 1V1& and purple flowers, in delicate but very briUiant 

 shades. The ■ plants are about one and one-half to two feet 

 high and are profuse bloomers. 



Sow in light, warm soil, as early in the spring as the ground 

 can be worked, or if planted in August they will bloom the 

 following summer. Double Mixed Pkt. 5c. 



Well known beautiful climbers, much 

 admired for their gracefulness and at- 

 tractive flowers. They are splendid for 

 covering arbors, verandas, etc., as they cling readily. 



The seed germinates slowly. For best results sow indoors in 

 fall or very early in spring. Press the soil firmly over the seed 

 and keep moist and warm. "When suitable transplant to place 

 one foot apart, or seed may be sown outdoors early in spring. 

 Perennial but some protection in northern latitudes through 

 winter is advised. Water the roots freely during dry weather 

 to insure profuse blooming. 



Flammula. A slender but vigorous climber, from ten to fifteen 

 feet high, with clusters of small, white, fragrant flowers in Au- 

 gust and September. Known as Sweet Virgin's Bower. Pkt. 5c. 

 Mixed. Extra choice, large flowering varieties with beautiful 

 clusters of purple and white flowers Pkt. 10c. 



I rtnaoa ^r*art#4<arke A flne rapid growing climber 

 V^UUaca iJ«,«C«.llUdl9 with handsome dark green 

 foliage and bearing on graceful stems large, bell-shaped 

 flowers, green at first but rapidly changing to a beautiful 

 deep violet-blue. A wire-netting trellis or support for the 

 green profusion of tendrils to fasten upon is preferable to 

 cords or smooth wire. A well established plant will run about 

 thirty feet in a season, covering a large veranda. 



For best results start indoors early in spring in rather dry 

 soil and set out the young plants after danger of frost is past. 



Tender perennial. Oz. 50c Pkt. 5c. 



COCKSCOMB— (See Celosia) 



COIX LACHRYMA— (See Job's rears) 



