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CHAM^EPEUCE. 
Ornamental Thistle, with variegated downy leaves and curious 
spines. 
Casabonae. (Fish-bone Thistle.) Glossy dark green leaves 
and brown spines.Pkt. 10 
CLARKIA. 
A very desirable hardy annual for bedding purposes; growing 
freely and blooming profusely in any common garden soil. 
Pulchella. Fine mixed. Peroz.,40cts.Pkt. 5 
CLEMATIS. 
(virgin’s bower.) 
Hardy climbing plants of great merit, rivaling the Passion 
Flower in their gorgeous beauty. No class of climbing 
plants will better repay a little care—a slight covering of 
leaves or litter being necessary to withstand our severest 
winters. The seed is slow to germinate. 
Flammula. A beautiful white fragrant French variety. Pkt. 10 
Jackmanii. Choicest mixed.10 
CINERARIA. 
CINERARIA. 
A favorite greenhouse plant, with great variety of beautiful 
colors, blooming through the winter and spring months. 
Seed should be sown in September or October; when large 
enough, potted in an equal mixture of loam, leaf-mold and 
sand, and in February repotted in a stronger soil. 
Hybrida Williams’ Extra Choice Strain, Imported in 
original packages; produces extremely fine flowers 
of diverse colors and magnificent form.Pkt. 75 
Grandiflora Kermesina. New, intense, glowing, velvety 
dark crimson, double petals.5o 
Fine Mixed Varieties. Striking colors, 1% ft.25 
Extra Mixed. From magnificent large-flowered varie¬ 
ties, 1% ft.50 
Double Flowering. A great acquisition. The flowers 
are perfectly double, comprising all shades of color 
peculiar to the Cineraria.50 
Maritima Candidissima. Extremely handsome, silvery- 
white foliage; very ornamental as a decorative pot 
plant, or for bedding purposes.10 
CLIANTHUS. 
(AUSTRALIAN GLORY PEA ) 
One of the most beautiful plants in cultivation, about 3 feet in 
height, with neat compound leaves, and drooping clusters of 
large, rich scarlet, long-petaled, pea-shaped flowers, 3 inches 
in length, something similar to the splendid blossoms of the 
Coral Tree, each flower being picturesquely marked with a 
large black, cloud-like blotch in front. To grow this splendid 
plant successfully in the open air, it should have a dry, 
sunny exposure, and should never be watered. Magnificent 
flowering shrub, 
Damnierii. Scarlet and black.Pkt. 2^ 
COCKSCOMB. 
(CELOSIA CRISTATA.) 
Highly ornamental plants, producing crested heads of flowers* 
somewhat resembling a cockscomb. To produce fine combs, 
the soil cannot be too rich, and the plants should be for¬ 
warded in hot bed, though showy plants may be raised from 
seed planted in open ground in May. The oftoner they are 
transplanted or shifted, the larger and more beautiful they 
grow. 
A 
Dwarf Mixed .Pkt. 5 
Glasgow Prize. An improved variety, producing large 
blooms of dark crimson. 5 
Empress. This new variety produces combs of 
colossal proportions; 
flowers have been 
grown, measuring 45 
inches from tip to tip ; 
rich velvety crimson. 10 
Japanese. (CelosiaJap- 
onica.) A branching 
variety of great 
beauty.5 
Colletion of Six Separ¬ 
ate Sorts .25 
COB/EA. 
fine rapid-growing climber, 
producing large Showy 
bell-shaped flowers, and 
growing best in a warm, 
sunny situation. In sow¬ 
ing, the seed should al¬ 
ways be placed edgewise. 
Scandens. Purple, an¬ 
nual, 20 ft., per oz., 
75 cts.Pkt. 10 
Alba. Pure white . .15 
Macrostemma. (San Sal¬ 
vador Cobeca.) The 
foliage is a bright 
vivid green, the flow¬ 
ers strikingly effec¬ 
tive with their very 
long stamens. Al¬ 
though a perennial 
when used as a green¬ 
house climber, it may 
be used as an annual 
for garden decoration. 15 
COBASA MACROSTEMMA. 
