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CKOSMAN BROTHERS’ CATALOGUE. 
AMARANTHUS. 
An ornamental foliaged and much admired class of 
plants, useful as the background of a flower border or 
for making an ornamental hedge, or bed on the lawn. 
The seed may be sown in the open ground, or in a hot¬ 
bed, which is recommended, and transplant two feet 
apart the first of June. They are the most brilliant in a 
poor soil and dry season. Half-hardy annuals. 
Pkt. Cts. 
Tricolor, Splendent, foliage green, red and yel¬ 
low ; 2 feet. 5 
Cuudaius (Love Lies Bleeding), red, very graceful ; 
3 feet. 5 
Cruentlis (Prince’s Feather), upright; 3 fefet. 5 
IIc nderi, drooping foliage, richly colored in many 
shades. 5 
§alicifoliu§, or Fountain Plant, 4 to 6 feet in 
height, extremely graceful habit and rich colored foliage ; valuable as a pot 
plant. 5 
Mixed Varieties . 5 
ANTIRRHINUM. SWEET ALYSSUM." 
ANTIRRHINUM. 
(SNAP DRAGON.) 
Very shovy and oardy perennials, ot easy culture, nowering treeiy me first 
reason from seed, and continuing in bloom until after hard frosts. Never allow 
eed pods to form on plants you desire to keep for flowering the second season. 
Sow either in hot-bed or garden early in ppring ; transplant from eightto ten inches 
apart. Grows about 18 inches high. (Illustration.) 
Torn Thumb varieties, dwarf, finest mixed.. . 5 
Fxtrn Fine Mains, tall, finest mixed colors. 5 
ALYSSUM. 
Very free fioverbg, useful, pretty little plant, for beds, edgings, etc.; blooming 
me whole summer; also succeeds well in the greenhouse during winter: fire 
for bouquets. Seed may be sown in the open ground early in spring or autumn : 
thin to six inches. 
Sweel Alyssum, white, fragrant; 1 foot... . 5 
Tom Thumb Sweet Alysaum, fine for edgings and low beds, flowering 
in the greatest profusion for months, 6 inches. ... 5 
