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Centaurea 



Centaureas embrace some foliage 

 plants but are more generally 

 known for their hardy flowering 

 annuals which include some of 

 our most graceful and showy garden flowers that have lonjr been 

 favorites for cutting. The tall slender sti-aight or slightly 

 branching plants with narrow leaves thrive well in common gar- 

 den 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 Floiver) A well known, hardy 

 border plant, also called "bluebottle" 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. 20c Pkt. 5c. 



Double Mixed (Bachelor's Button) Produces larger, mare globular 



flower-heads than the common variety. Oz. 20c Pkt. 5c. 



Odorata {Sweet Sultan) 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 finely 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. 5c. 



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 Varieties 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. 

 Candidissima. Sometimes called Dusty Miller. Ornamental plants 

 of great beauty; foliage deeply cut, silvery white and densely 

 covered with white hairs. Half hardy perennial, about one foot 



high Pkt. 10c. 



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. 



Centaurea Cyanus (Bachelor's Button) 



Chrysanthemum 



Chrysanthemum, Morning Star 



These outdoor 

 "summer Chrys- 



anthemums" 

 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 the winter 

 flowering sorts sold by florists and which are propa- 

 gated omy 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 May, and transplanting the young plants 



to open border. Height one and one-half to two feet. 



Morning Star. Very handsome, large, single flowers, 



bright yellow with deeper center; excellent for cutting 



and desirable for both spring and fall markets. Pkt. 10c. 



Carinatum Eclipse. Pure golden yellow, with a bright 



purplish scarlet ring or center on the ray florets, the 



disc being dark brown; very striking 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; abund- 

 antly produced Pkt. 5c. 



Mixed. The choicest Carinatum and Coronarium varieties, 

 both single and double Pkt. 5c. 



Later and Taller Fall Blooming Sorts 



This class is quite distinct from the early blooming 



garden sorts and in northern latitudes usually does not 



bloom the first year unless started indoors very early. In 



southern latitudes seed may be sown outdoors either in 



spring or fall. Height two to three feet. 



Japonicum, fl. pi. The Japanese double sorts have very 



beautiful fringe-like flowers, usually combining white 



with tints of yellow and red. Well adapted to the 



southern states and under favorable conditions blooms 



freely in the North. Half hardy perennial Pkt. 25c. 



Indicum, fl. pi. Very double India or Chinese sorts with 

 incurved petals, mixed colors. Half hardy perennial; 

 desirable as pot plant but sown more generally outdoors 

 in the South, and succeeds well under favorable con- 

 ditions in the North Pkt. 25c. 



Superb Mixed. Seed from fine Chinese and Japanese 

 double varieties; half hardy perennial Pkt. 25c. 



CHEIRANTHUS CHEIRI— (See Wallflower) 

 CHEIRANTHUS MARITIMUS — (See Virginian Stock) 



