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Centaurea Cyanus - Bachelor s Button 
Plumosa. Large plume-like flowers in many 
colors. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 20c. 
CENTAUREA 
Cyanus, Double Bachelor’s Button or Corn* 
flower. Highly prized for both garden and 
cutting purposes. Full double flowers in 
wide range of color. Choicest mixed. Pkt. 
5c. 34 oz. 20c. 
Cyanus, Double Dark Blue. Select strain. Pkt. 
10 c. 34 oz. 25c. 
Cyanus, Double Miniata. Beautiful carmine- 
rose. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 25c. 
Americana. A beautiful variety with immense, 
flattened thistle-like blooms on long strong 
stems; plant will grow 234 to 4 ft. tall. One 
of the finest of the Centaureas. Rosy Lilac. 
Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 25c. 
Suaveolens (Yellow Sweet Sultan). This little 
known but exceedingly worth while variety 
should be much more extensively grown. It 
is a true Sweet Sultan, but a distinct depar¬ 
ture from the common shades, being a beau¬ 
tiful golden yellow; attractive in the garden 
and lasts well when cut. Grows easily from 
seed sown in the open. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 30c. 
Imperialis (Giant Sweet Sultan). Flowers very 
large and keep well after cutting. Rose, lav¬ 
ender, purple or mixed. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 35c. 
Gymnocarpa Dusty Miller. Attractive, fern¬ 
like foliage of a pretty gray color; a fine 
border. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 35c. 
CLARKIA 
Elegans. A splendid annual; thriving in sun or 
partial shade. 2 to 234 ft. high; graceful 
leafy stalks of double flowers, somewhat re¬ 
sembling the Gilliflower or Stocks. Mixed 
colors. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 25c. 
CLEOME (Giant Spicier Flower) 
Gigantea. Branched plants 3*4 ft. tall, each 
branch carrying large heads of loose, pe¬ 
culiarly formed flowers of rosy pink. Pkt. 
10 c. 34 oz. 20c. 
COSMIDIUM 
Burridgeanum Orange Crown. A little known 
but desirable annual. Excellent for garden 
display or cutting, and quite resembles, in 
appearance, the well known Calliopsis. 
Shades of orange and yellow with brown. 
Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 30c. 
COSMOS 
Early Flowering Mammoth. Bushy habit; 
growing 4 to 5 ft. and flowers from July to 
frost. Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 20c. 
Separate Colors. White, pink and crimson. 
Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 25c. 
EXTRA EARLY DOUBLE CRESTED 
Flowers at the same time, habit and growth 
identical with the single varieties but is much 
more handsome. 
Pink Beauty. Flowers are of a deep rosy pink 
and keep exceptionally well after cutting. 
Pkt. 25c. 
White Queen. White flowered form of the 
above. Pkt. 25c. 
CYNOGLOSSUM (Chinese Forget-me-not) 
Amabile. This pretty annual, with it’s sprays of 
deep blue flowers, sweet scented, is a valuable 
addition to the rather short list of blue flowers. 
Plants of strong, robust growth, 18 to 24 in. 
high. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 30c. 
D1ANTHUS (Annual Garden Pinks) 
Heddewigi Single. Large flowers in brightest 
colors. Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 30c. 
Heddewigi Double. Choice Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
34 oz. 30c. 
Lucifer. Bright geranium red. 
Salmon King. Brilliant salmon-rose. 
Snowball. White, with petals beautifully 
fringed. 
Violet Queen. An unusual shade. Rich violet. 
Mourning Cloak. Rich dark velvety crimson, 
edged with white. 
Pkt. 10c. 34 oz. 25c. 34 oz. 45c. 
Sweet Wivelsfield. See Page 14. 
Early Mammoth Cosmos 
