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CROSMAN BROTHERS’ CATALOGUE. 
CAT CHFLY. (Silene.) 
A beatiful free-blooming hardy annual; should 
be sown in beds or groups ; succeeds in any gar¬ 
den soil; sow early in open ground. 
Silene Armcria (LobeVa 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. 
Ulcleor, flowers large, double, striped with 
orange . 5 
Priiiee of Orange, fine deep orange ; very 
double.5 
mixed Varieties . 5 
CALENDULA. 
DAHLIA. 
Although perennials, Dahlias will bloom freely the first season from seed, com¬ 
ing in blossom about August, if seed is sown fairly early in the spring. For further 
description and price of roots see Summer-Flowering Plants and Bulbs. Customers 
can depend upon getting something exceedingly choice in teis line from us. 
Pkt.Cts. 
Best Single mixed. Many pleasing colors.10 
Best Double mixed, 'flowers large, full and perfectly double.10 
DIANTHUS DIADEMATUS. 
apart. [Illustration.] 
DIANTHUS. 
A splendid genus, which "embraces some 
of the most popular flowers in cultivation’; 
it includes' the 'very popular “ Carnation,” 
(Dianthus Caryophyllus); the beautiful 
“ Garden Pink,” (Dianthus Hortensis; and 
the old and well-known “Sweet William,” 
(Dianthus Barbatus). But as the above 
varieties 'do not flower until the second 
season, a description of them will be found 
in the proper place. The double and single 
varieties, with their rich and varied colors, 
are very attractive'in beds or masses, while 
the varieties introduced later, such as 
Dianthus Heddewiggi aud Dianthus Lacin- 
iatus, with their large and beautiful colored 
flowers, are unequaled ; very desirable for 
bouquets. Seeds may be sown in a frame, 
or in a carefully prepared bed early in 
spring ; transplant or thin to 8 or 10 inches 
Vliiuensis, double mixed fine . D 
1 m|>crf alls, (Double Imperal Pink) fine mixed.• * • 5 
Heddewiggi! Dladcmatu*, (Diadem Pink), a fine variety of exceeding 
beauty, remarkable for its brilliant markings and dazzling colors. o 
lleddcwfgli and L.aeiniatus, large^flowers, 3inches in diameter, very beau- 
ful; mixed colors. .® 
