DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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Clarkia. 
Cineraria, dwarf, flower. 
Clintonia. 
Clarkia, elegans flore pleno, double; rosy purple. 5 1 
'* mixed, best and finest varieties . c 
CLEMATIS. 
Well known and universally admired climbers, some 
of the varieties being remarkable for the beauty and 
fragrance of their blossoms. Fine for covering arbors, 
verandas, &c., as they cling readily to almost any ob¬ 
ject. Most of the kinds are hardy, herbaceous perenni¬ 
als, but some little protection in Northern latitudes, 
through winter, is advised. Will do well in any good 
garden soil. 
Clematis, Pitcheri, new : elegant habit, neat foli¬ 
age, and exceedingly pretty, bright red blos¬ 
soms ; hardy climber .. 25 
** Virginana (Virgin’s Bower), a rapid climber 
with white blossoms, growing twenty feet in a 
single season ; is hardy, dying down in winter, 
but starting up again in the spring. It is I 
equally remarkable when in fruit, the long, 
feathery tails of the fruit separating like tufts 
of wool . . 
44 Verticellata, produces beautiful blue flowers 
from June to September, on long pandunclcs 
from the axis of the leaves ; rather bell-shaped 
and nodding. Grows eight to ten feet in a 
season . . 
44 Flammula, a luxuriant climber with clusters of 
small, white, fragrant flowers in August and 
September. Sometimes called Sweet Virgin’s 
Bower. . 
CLIANTHTJS. 
Curious, green-house shrubs, with singularly beauti¬ 
ful foliage, and magnificent clusters of long, drooping 
flowers, somewhat resembling a parrot’s beak. About 
three feet high, and succeeds best in loam, peat and 
sand mixed ; docs well planted in a border of the con¬ 
servatory, or will flourish against a south wall, if pro¬ 
tected from cold and frost. Among the most magnifi¬ 
cent blooming plants in cultivation. 
Clianthus, Dampieri, bright scarlet blossoms .20 
CLINTONIA. 
Charming little trailing plants, suitable for baskets, 
pots, or rock-work. The flowers are somewhat like the 
Lobelia, blue, purple and spotted, about hal.' an inch in 
diameter. The seed is exceedingly small, and should 
be sown with great care, covering very slightly with 
earth, and shading from the rays of the sun till firmly 
established. Tender annual; six inches high. 
Clintonia, elegans, light blue. 5 
“ pulchella, blue, yellow and white.10 
atropurpurea, violet-purple, center 
of yellow, margined with white.10 
“ fine mixed. IO 
(^COBJEA. 
A fine, rapid-growing climber, with handsome foli¬ 
age, and large, bell-shaped flowers, green at first, but 
rapidly changing to a beautiful, deep violet-blue. Seeds 
should be started in hot-bed, in rather dry soil, as they 
are apt to rot in open ground. A well established plant 
will run fifty feet in a season, covering a large veranda 
with handsome foliage and beautiful flowers, 'fender 
perennial. 
Cobaea, scandens ....... k> 
COCKSCOMB—(Celosia). 
Highly ornamental plants, producing crested heads of 
flowers, somewhat re¬ 
sembling a cock’s comb. 
There are many, colors 
and shapes, but the scar¬ 
let and crimson ones arc 
the most brilliant and 
rich. To produce fine 
combs, the soil cannot be 
too rich, and the plants 
should be forwarded in 
hot-bed, though showy 
plants may be raised 
from seed planted in open 
ground in May. The ^ . . . 
ofte ner they are trans- Cockscomb, new dwarf- 
planted or shifted, the crested. 
