ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL FLOWER SEEDS 
CASTOR BEAN (See Ricinus) 
CENTAUREA 
Particularly well adapted for border planting. The types 
cultivated for their flowers have bulging calyxes from which 
many finely cut petals expand. Others have a downy growth 
on their leaves, making the foliage quite ornamental. All of 
them are of easy culture from seed. 
Cyanus Double (Bachelor Button). This superb class of Corn¬ 
flowers produces handsome, large double blooms, effective 
out-of-doors and in bouquets. 
Blue. Rose. Mixed. 
Imperialis (Sweet Sultan). These beautiful long stemmed 
flowers with their soft velvety heads make very enchanting 
bouquets. They measure 2 to 2M> inches across while the en¬ 
tire plant stands about 2V 2 to 3 feet tall. You can grow them 
readily in any fair garden soil, and your friends are sure to 
admire them. 
Amaranth Red. White. Yellow. Mixed. 
Americana (Basketflower). Immense, thistle-like flowers of 
rosy lavender. 
Gymnoearpa (Dusty Miller). Finely cut, silvery white foliage, 
12 inches. 
Candidissima. Very decorative foliage plants for borders, 
etc. Silvery white leaves broadly cut. Flowers yellow. 
CHEIRANTHUS, Siberian Wallflower 
Allioni. This unusual little plant deserves a place in your 
rock garden or low border. Upright spikes bear numerous 
four-petaled flowers of dazzling rich orange. Though a 
hardy biennial, it flowers the first season from seed and 
when established will bloom throughout the Summer. 
CHINESE LANTERN PLANTS 
(See Physalis Francheti) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, ANNUAL, Painted Daisy 
A showy and much admired class of flowers. Large, daisy¬ 
like blooms borne profusely during the Summer and Fall. 
Excellent for beds, borders and cutting. 
Finest Single Mixed. Includes all colors and gives a wonder¬ 
ful display in beds or borders. 
Coronarium, Double Mixed. Lovely button-shaped blooms, 
IV 2 inches across. Fully double; 18 inches tall. 
CLARKIA 
An annual, flowering in July, which should be far more 
widely known. It is of easy cultivation, graceful in habit of 
growth, and lends itself as well to bedding as for cutting. 
Flowers in long racemes which all open in water when cut. 
Elegans. Double. Choice mixed. 
COLUMBINE (See Aquilegia) 
CONE FLOWER (See Rudbeckia) 
COREOPSIS 
One of our most popular perennials; the attractive flowers 
are borne in great profusion and are excellent for cutting. 
Eaneeolata Grandiflora. Single golden yellow flowers of 
graceful form. 
Grandiflora Double Sunburst. Much of the beauty of early 
summer gardens is due to the brilliant golden yellow of Core¬ 
opsis plantings. The double flowers are large, IV 2 to 2 inches 
across, deep golden yellow, and are excellent for cutting as 
well as for garden decoration. Fine keepers; plants are easy 
to grow. 
COSMOS 
No garden is complete without Cosmos. These old favorites 
supply a gorgeous, colorful effect during late Summer and 
Fall. Fine for cutting as the flowers last well in water. 
Cosmos are easy to grow. 
Early Klondyke, Orange Flare. See inside back cover. 
Cosmos Sensation. See page 3. 
EARLY SINGLE. Grows 5 feet tall and blooms several 
weeks before the late-flowering varieties. Flowers 3 inches 
across. 
Crimson. White. 
Rose. Mixed. 
EARLY DOUBLE CRESTED. Showy plants, 3 to 4 feet tall, 
covered with a mass of lovely, large flowers. Our strain pro¬ 
duces a large percentage of double blooms. 
Pink. White. 
Crimson. Early Double, Mixed. 
CYPRESS VINE, Ipomoea Quamoclit 
A rapid-growing climber with soft deep green feathery 
foliage. The flowers are slender little trumpets with star¬ 
shaped rims. Due to its twining habit it will readily climb 
a stretched cord or light trellis. 
Scarlet. Mixed. 
DAHLIAS (From Seed) 
There is no more fascinating flower to raise from seed than 
the Dahlia, for the result is a series of surprises. 
Single Mixed. Double Mixed. 
DIANTHUS, Annual Pinks 
A charming class of annual flowers for beds, borders, 
edgings, and cutting. The dwarf, rather compact plants aver¬ 
age 1 foot in height. Of easiest culture, succeeding in ordi¬ 
nary garden loam. Blooms from July until frosts. 
Laeiniatus Splendens. Special Mention, 1935 All-America 
Selections. The most striking Dianthus ever offered, Splen¬ 
dens has been considered worthy of Special Mention by the 
All-American Council. Free flowering and easily grown, the 
Dianthus family has for years furnished us with some of our 
most popular border subjects. Neat and compact in habit, 
bearing generous quantities of its large, sweet scented single 
flowers of brilliant crimson, with a boldly contrasted glisten¬ 
ing white eye. 
Chinensis, Double Mixed. This variety supplies an abun¬ 
dance of fringed double flowers. They resemble Sweet 
William, but the blossoms are larger. 
Heddewigii Laeiniatus Double Mixed (Japan). Superb flowers 
rivaling the Carnation in size and doubleness of blossoms. 
Excellent for bouquets. 
Heddewigii Single Mixed. Large finely marked flowers hav¬ 
ing fringed petals. 
Plumarius, Single and Semi-double Mixed. A pleasing peren¬ 
nial variety with deeply fringed flowers of a rich clove scent. 
They appear in a fine assortment of colors. 
DIGITALIS, Foxglove 
This ornamental hardy plant is used extensively for nat¬ 
uralizing in shrubbery borders and along the edges of woods. 
It grows well under almost all conditions, giving a wealth 
of bloom during June and July. 
Gloxiniaeflora. This is an improved strain of the ordinary 
Foxglove, with handsome spotted Gloxinia-like flowers on 
long spikes. 
Rosea. Rose ground. 
Alba. White ground. 
Mixed. 
CENTAUREA AMERICANA 
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