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UPTON 
GARDENS 
CASTILLEJA, Paint Brush. Probably parasitic, hence difficult to 
establish. 
collina. Scarlet bracts, 1 ft. stems. 
haydenii. Bright old-rose flowers; alpine. 
occidentalis. Dwarf, yellow tinged with dark red; alpine. 
sulphurea. Soft yellow; subalpine. 
CEANOTHUS, Buckthorn. 
fendleri. A dwarf spiny subalpine shrub, small white flowers. 2 ft. 
Young plants $1.00 each, $7.50 per dozen. 
CERASTIUM, Mouse Ear. 
arvense. Forms a green carpet from which rise quantities of white 
flowers. 4 inches. 
CERCOCARPUS, Mountain Mahogany. 
parvifolius. A subalpine shrub; thousands of spiral plumose seed- 
tails lend a silky haze to bleak stony hillsides. 5 ft. Young 
plants $1.00 each, $7.50 per dozen. 
CHAMAENERION (Epilobium). Tolerant of conditions, but resents 
being transplanted. 
angustifolium, Fireweed. Brilliant purple-pink spikes, 2 to 3 ft. 
CHIONOPHILA, Snowlover. 
jamesii. Perky little spikes of white two-lipped flowers. Alpine; 
4 inches. Scree with a dash of leafmold. 
CEAYTONIA, Spring Beauty. 
megarrliiza. Rosettes of shining succulent deep green, circled, as an 
after-thought, by a wreath of little white flowers pink backed. 
Scree. 
CLEMATIS, Virgin’s Bower. Tolerant of almost any condition. 
douglasii. Attractive blue flowers. Clarence Elliott says, “Like a 
Paris hat.” Pinnate foliage. 1 to 2 ft. 
ligusticifolia. White flowers and fluffy seed heads in abundance; a 
rampant climber. 
pseudoalpina. Lavender to blue; an obliging plant, grows flat or 
climbs. Semi-shade. 
scottii. Thick blue-purple flowers. Shrubby to climbing habit. 2 ft. 
CORNUS canadensis. Suggests a dwarf, four-petal trillium; 6 inches. 
Shade. Plants only. 
CORYDALIS aurea, Golden Smoke. Forms a little bouquet of dainty 
filigree in irridescent gray with half-hidden yellow flowers; early. 
Resents transplanting; impermanent but self-sows. 
CRASSINIA grandiflora. Miniature single yellow zinnia, from sunny 
dry plains. 
CRATAEGUS, Hawthorn. 
coloradensis. A low, well-branched tree; clusters of scarlet berries 
lovely with large coarsely-toothed leaves. Exceptionally hardy. 
Seed only. 
CYPRIPEDIUM parviflorum, Yellow Lady Slipper. Lovely butter-col¬ 
ored blobs, moccasin shaped. 6 to 10 inches. 
DASYPHORA. see Potentilla. 
DELPHINIUM. 
scopulorum, Mountain Larkspur. Deep blue. 3 ft. Grand in masses. 
DODECATHEON, Shooting Star. 
pauciflorum (prob. radicatum). Suggests a perky miniature cyclamen 
family on one erect stem. Floriferous, good. 8 inches. Moist, 
semi-shade. 
Give Cypripediums and Calypsos leafmold and shade. 
