CLARKIA, ELEGANS DOUBLE 
CLARKIA, AF 
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. Orange King. Salmon orange. 
Brilliant. Carmine. Chamois Queen. Delicate flesh. 
Salmon Queen. .41ba. White. 
Fire Brand. Orange scarlet. Finest Mixed. 
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. 
Allioni Golden Bedder (New). Companion to the above, orange. 
Good size flowers. Golden yellow, on plant 12 inches in 
height. Blooms first from seed. 
CHINESE LANTERN PLANT (See Physalis) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, Painted Daisy, AF 
A showy and much admired class of flowers. Large, daisy 
like blooms borne profusely during the summer and fall. Ex¬ 
cellent 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, lYz 
inches across. Fully double; 18 inches tall. 
COBAEA SCANDENS 
A handsome, rapid growing, climbing plant, having large, 
bell-shaped flowers, beautiful foliage and peculiarly delicate 
and curious tendrils. Seed should be planted on edge in shal¬ 
low boxes of soft soil, covering with glass until seedlings 
appear. Transplant about May. 
Purple. White. 
COIX LACHRYMAE, Job's Tears 
A broad-leaved, ornamental grass, having large, tear-shaped 
hard, shining, pearl-gray seeds. Plant in prepared seed bed in 
open, transplant. 
COLUMBINE (See Aquilegia) 
CONE FLOWER (See Rudbeckia) 
COREOPSIS, PF 
One of our most popular perennials; the attractive flowers 
are borne in great profusion and are excellent for cutting. 
Lanceolata Grandiflora. Single golden yellow flowers of 
graceful form. 
Grandiflora Double Sunbui*st. Much of the beauty of early 
summer gardens is due to the brilliant golden yellow of Core¬ 
opsis plantings. The double flowers are large, 1% to 2 inches 
across, deep golden yellow, and are excellent for cutting as 
well as for garden decoration. 
COSMOS, AF 
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. 
Cosmos Early Klondyke Orange Flare. Grand Champion Gold 
Medal, All-America Selections, 1935. Granted the highest 
honor that can be bestowed on a new flower. The long stemmed 
flowers of bright vivid orange are freely borne on 2 to 3 foot 
plants. Its most remarkable feature, however, is its early 
blooming habit. It blooms from mid-summer until frost. 
Cosmos Sensation. (See Novelties, page 1.) 
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. 
CUPHEA FIREFLY (New) AR 
In our quest for a plant which is dwarf, compact, neat in 
habit, and showy for modern gardens it is a joy to discover 
Cuphea Firefly. A newcomer this season. Firefly has all the 
characteristics needed in a dwarf, compact plant. The flowers 
are small and delicately formed, fiery cerise red in color, and 
are freely produced on compact plants which reach a height 
of about 10 inches. The general effect of a plant when in full 
bloom is a ball of fire, recommending itself at once as a sub¬ 
ject for the rockery, for window boxes, for flower pots, or as 
a border or edging variety. It is a tender annual flowering 
readily in 12 to 14 weeks from seed, and blooms profusely 
throughout the summer months. Pkt. 25c. 
Leucanthemum (Shasta Daisy) P. Alaska pure white. Large 
flowers. Good for cutting. 2 ft. / 
CINERARIA, B 
Magnificent and indispensable flowering plants for the win¬ 
dow garden. The flowers of white, blue, violet, and crimson 
shades, covering the plant with a sheet of bloom. Should be 
sown under glass in very fine soil. 
Hybrida. Grandiflora. Choicest mixed. Pot plant. Pkt. 25c. 
CLEOME 
A splendid plant for large beds or shrubbery, border. Of 
branching habit, each branch producing a large head of attrac¬ 
tive flowers. Sow seed in open ground as soon as weather is 
warm and settled. Height 3% feet. Pine for bees. Mixed. 
COLEUS, A 
Beautiful plant grown for its attractive foliage. For bed¬ 
ding and porch boxes. Fine mixed. 
CYPRESS VINE, Ipomoea Quamoclit' 
Climber with rapid growth. Has delicate fern-like foliage 
and great numbers of star-shaped blossoms with long tubes. 
Soak seeds over night in warm water, then sow where vine 
is to grow. Does best in warm, sunny location. Grows 10 to 
15 feet. Mixed Colors. 
DAHLIA 
Magnificent, fall-blooming tuberous-rooted plant. Sow seeds 
in boxes indoors very early, transplanting to open when 
danger from frost is past. Will bloom first season. Tuber of 
the best ones may be saved for following season. 
Double Mixed. 
Single Mixed. 
Cactus. Flowers odd and fantastic in shape; colors. Finest 
mixed. 
Unwin’s Dwarf Hybrids. Flowering in 60 days from seed. This 
remarkable strain produces branching plants bearing semi¬ 
double flowers 3 inches in diameter, of lovely soft pink, laven¬ 
der, red, orange, yellow and maroon. They flower until frost 
kills the plants, and produce tubers which can be saved. 
Pinched back, they make fine pot plants. Pkt. 15c. 
SEE PAGES 18-19 FOR THE CHOICEST SELECTION OF SWEET PEAS. THEY ARE EASY TO 
GROW AND REPAY THEMSELVES MANY TIMES 
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