VEGETABLE AXD FLOWER SEEDS , ETC . 
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CELOSIA. 
Magnificent and highly ornamental class of plants for the garden or greenhouse. 
The seed should be sown in a hot-bed, or on a warm border, and transplanted into 
a warm, rich soil. When grown in pots they are the most elegant of greenhouse 
and conservatory plants. Many varieties of this class may be cut and dried like an 
everlasting, retaming both form and color. Tender annuals. ^ ^ 
Cristata, (Coxcomb.) dwarf varieties, mixed...10 
Japonica, or new Japan Coxcomb; leaf scarlet or crimson ; combs delicately 
cut, of a deep scarlet hue, and produced in the greatest profusion.10 
CENTRANTHUS. 
Very pretty, free-flowering hardy annual, very effective in beds or for edgingB; 
succeeds well in any garden soil; sow early, and thin to fifteen inches apart. 
Mixed Colors. .5 
FRENCH CANNA. 
Mixed, standard varieties. 
Dark-leaved varieties mixed 
Good Roots, 25c. each. 
CANNA. (Indian Shot.) 
These stately and deservedly popu¬ 
lar plants are highly esteemed for 
their large and handsome foliage and 
tropical appearance; fine for a oed or 
group on the lawn. We have the 
latest improvements, both as to fine 
foliage and size and brilliancy of 
flowers. The seed should be well 
soaked in warm water before sowing; 
will bloom the first season if sown 
early in a hot bed or greenhouse; 
store your roots in the cellar in 
autumn before touched by frost.— 
[See Illustration.] 
Mad. Crozy, a gorgeously beau¬ 
tiful thing, four feet high ; the 
flowers begin to show when the 
plant is scarcely a foot high and 
keep coming (until frost) in 
great blazing clusters and in 
such profusion as to almost 
cover the top of the plant; 
flowers brilliant scarlet, edged 
with golden-yellow. 15 
Crozy’s New Hybrids, an early- 
blooming dwarf class, with large 
brilliant flowers of all shades 
from yellow to crimson; mixed 
colors.10 
.10 
.10 
CATCH FLY, (Silene.) 
A beautiful free-blooming hardy annual; should be sown in beds or groups ; 
succeeds in any garden soil; sow early iu the open ground. 
Silene Armeria, (Lobel's Catchfly,) Mixed Colors. 5 
CALENDULA. (Pot Marigold.) 
Profuse and continuous-blooming dwarf, bushy annuals; indispensable for 
summer garden or for pot-culture in winter; of easy culture. 
Meteor, flowers large, double, striped with orange. & 
Prince of* Orange, fine deep orange ; very double. . 5 
Mixed Varieties. 5 
