‘CENTAUREA ANNUAL 
Excellent garden-decorative or cut-flower material. Easiest 
possible handling. Includes the Cornflowers. 
♦CENTAURA MARGARITAE— ecbk(2-3)36. Enormous frag¬ 
rant flowers, pure white, fluffily double. Pkt. 10c ; % oz. 20c. 
♦CENTAUREA SUAVEOLENS— ecbk(2-3)24. Grecian Corn¬ 
flower. Fragrant, double, pure yellow, Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c. 
♦CENTAUREA CROCYDILIUM^cbx(3)40. Immense lace- 
blossoms of radiant pink, white-centered. Pkt. 15c. 
*CENTAUREA MOSCHATA PEERLESS — ecbx(2-3)36. 
Giant Sweet Sultan. No more satisfying annual for either 
cutting or garden decoration than this. Big blossoms of 
great doubleness, delicately musk-fragrant, and with long 
stems. There will be pure white, pink, rose, lavender and 
purple, with a proportion of those delightful shades and 
tones that lie between yellow and rose. Pkt. 10c: Va oz. 
20c; % oz. 30c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
*CENTAUREA CYANUS THE RUBY—«cbx(8)30. Double 
blossoms of richest glowing ruby. Striking. Pkt. 10c. 
♦CENTAUREA CYANUS DOUBLE MIXED—ecbk( 2-3) 30. 
It has many names. Cornflower, Bluet, Ragged Sailor 
among them. Large double flowers all summer, blue, pink, 
red. maroon, white and mauve. Pkt. 5c; % oz. 20c. 
*CENTAUREA CYANUS JUBILEE—eik(2-3) 12. An edger, 
dwarf, compact, loaded to capacity with double blossoms 
of a most vivid blue. Unusual. Pkt. 15c. 
*CENTAUREA AMERICANA—ecbk(2-3)40. Basket flower. 
Long-rayed lilac blossoms that may be 4 inches across. 
Pkt. 5c. 
OFFER 43A40—One pkt. each of the above for 60c. 
CEPHALARIA 
Gigantic Scabiosa-flowers, high-held on long and graceful 
curving stems in striking decorative effect. The Cephalarias 
are all of easiest culture. They cut well. 
21 CEPHALARIA ALPINA—ecbx(3)48, Scabiosa flowers of 
softest yellow. Plant with blue Campanula, or with Del¬ 
phinium. Pkt. 10c ; Ys oz. 20c. 
21 CEPHALARIA CORNICULATA—ecx(5-6)48. In bloom 
August into November, giving good late cutting material. 
Blossoms of full fluffy doubleness, soft yellow, on long 
stems. Sheaf-form plants. Pkt. 15c. 
21 CEPHALARIA RADIATA—If I could grow but one 
Cephalaria, it would be this. Full and rather fluffy double 
flowers of soft sunlight yellow. Often proliferous. Pkt. 
10c: Vs oz. 25c: % oz. 40c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 
10 for $1.85.) 
21 CEPHALARIA TATARICA—ecbx(3)85. Tallest of the 
Cephalarias, otherwise like C. alpina. It should be placed 
to rise above and beyond other perennials, giving then 
startling meteoric blossom effects. Pkt. 5c; % oz. 20c; % 
oz. 30c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
♦CEPHALARIA TRANSYLVANICA—ecbx(3-5)50. Here is 
an odd coloring for Cephalaria, soft blue-lilac. The fluffy 
blossoms are set gracefully all through slender tangles of 
branchy turmoil. Pkt. 10c ; ^ oz. 25c. 
OTHER GOOD CEPHALARIAS—These are perennial. 10c 
the pkt. Flava, Laevigata, Graeca and Tchihatchewi. 
OFFER 44A40—One pt. of each of the above for 75c. 
21 HARDY CEPHALARIAS MIXED—Eight perennial Ce¬ 
phalarias in mixture. All are good. Rather surprising 
variation among them, though color range is only from 
white, through cream, to varied yellows. Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 
20c; % oz. 35c; 1 oz. $1.25. 
WE GROW OUR SEEDS from special plantings 
made for the purpose at Old Orchard. We doubt 
that any other American Seedhouse actually grows 
as large a proportion of the seeds it sells, as do we. 
Visitors always welcome at Old Orchard. Stop by 
and see how we do it. 
♦CHAENACTIS GLABRIUSCULA—ecryt(2) 16. Gold Pins. 
A delightful annual with flowers that seem to be fringed yel¬ 
low ^ cushions, thrust through with golden pins. Sow in 
earliest spring (or latest autumn), never after the Boil- 
temperatures are high. Pkt. 10c. 
21 CHAENORRHINUM GLAREOSUM—•erx(8)5. A dain¬ 
tiness of little lilac snapdragons from June till winter. 
Pkt. 15c. 
21 CHAENORRHINUM ORIGANIFOLIUM — •erx(8)8 
Myriad baby snapdragons of deep royal purple, months 
of them. From peaks of the Pyrenees. Pkt. 15c. 
25 CHAMAELAUCIUM UNCINATUM—w. Geraldton Wax- 
flower. Wax-like blossoms of delicate pink, five-lobed flaring 
trumpets. Window or conservatory. Pkt. 15c. 
♦CHARIEIS HETEROPHYLLA—erbk(2-4)10. Big lavender 
daisies that deepen to blue. In continuous bloom. Recom¬ 
mended for beds, edgings, rock gardens or pots. Pkt. 15c. 
35 CHASMANTHE FLORIBUNDA—eck(w) (6)36. Tall curv¬ 
ing sprays of little golden orange star-trumpets, close-packed 
in a double row. South Africa. Pkt. 25c. 
21 CIIEIRANTHUS ALLIONI—*erbnx(2)16. Here is orange, 
brilliant, far-glowing, for many, many weeks. Pkt. 6c. 
21 CHEIRANTHUS LINIFOLIUS—See Erysimum linifolium. 
21 CHELIDONIUM MAJUS DOUBLE—erbnx(2-3)25. Pretty 
and double blossoms of golden orange for a long season. 
Attractive foliage. Recommended. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c. 
21 CHIMAPHILA MACULATA—ratstyt(2) 10. Pipsissewa. 
Fragrant blossoms of pink-flushed cream. Pkt. 20c. 
31 CHIONODOXA LUCILIAE — rny(l)6. Glory of the 
Snow. Sky-blue blossoms with milk-white centers. Pkt. 
10c; 1*8 oz. 20c. 
22 CHIRONIA BACCIFERA—cry(w)(8)14. Richest pink blos¬ 
soms. A lovely Gentian-cousin. Cape Province. Pkt. 20c. 
21 CHINESE LANTERNS (Physalis Franchetti)—ecbk(5) 
25. Vivid scarlet lanterns seem the fruits, these to be cut 
and dried for winter show. Pkt. 10c.* 
33 CHLIDANTHUS FRAGRANS One of the Fairy Lilies. 
Slender trumpet-flowers of golden waxiness in rather early 
spring. There is an alluring fragrance. Dig and store in 
winter. From the lower Andes. Bulbs only, March to 
June, 3 for 25c; 10 for 75c; 25 for $1.75. 
31 CHLOROGALUM POMERIDIANUM—my (2)45. Bushy 
panicles of purple-striped white blossoms. Hardy garden 
bulb, or may be grown as a pot plant. Aside from the 
ornamental, this plant has economic value. The thick fibrous 
bulb-husks are used for mattresses or in manufacture of 
brushes. The bulbs, themselves, cut into water, will make 
a soft lather, for they are rich in saponin. Particularly 
good for fine shampoos, or other toilet uses. Pkt. 15c. 
All plants offered in this catalog are good field- 
grown stock, surplus propagation above our needs 
for seed-production purposes. We pack roots in 
damp sphagnum moss, and ship in ventilated pack¬ 
ages. The plants should reach any point in the 
United States or Canada in excellent growable con¬ 
dition, whether by mail or express. If plants or 
bulbs are desired by mail, add 5% to remittance to 
cover postage and packing if arrival point is east 
of Pittsburgh and north of the Potomac, 10% to 
other points east of the Mississippi, and 15% for 
destinations west of that river. When no postage 
allowance is included in remittance for plants, we 
assume express forwarding is desired. 
21 CERASTIUM MICRANTHA—ergx(2)12. Downy, frosty 
leaf-mats, snowed over with white flake-petaled flowers. Alps 
of Taurus. Pkt. 10c, (Plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c.) 
21 CERASTIUM TOMENTOSUM—erg(2) 12. Close foliage- 
spreads that rise and fall like the swell of a silvery sea. 
Flowers above of seafoam whiteness. Pkt. 10c. (Plants, 
each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.85.) 
45 CEREOPEGIA STAPELIAFORMIS—w. A rare succu¬ 
lent for the window collection. Leafless, brittle-stemmed 
small vine with thick, horn-petalled spotted flowers. Not 
difficult. 10 seeds for 25c. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM—See next page. 
21 CHRYSOGONUM VIRGINIANUM—Spreading mats of 
restful green, studded with golden stars from June until 
late November. Shade-tolerant; try it in that too-near-the- 
tree rock garden. Plants only, each 30c ; 3 for 85c. 
21 CHRYSOPSIS FALCATA—erdk(3-4)12. Ground Gold. 
The plants are draped in sheer gold for at least two months. 
Sun or shade. Pkt. 10c. 
21 CHRYSOPSIS MARIANA—ecbdkt(4)25. Golden Aster. 
Large single flowers of richest yellow, like splendid Fall 
Asters. Extraordinarily good. Pkt. 10c. 
21 CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA—bstyt(2)60. Long spike- 
racemes of fluffy cream-white blossoming. Effectively deco¬ 
rative likewise when in fruit. Good and enduring peren¬ 
nial for light shade. Pkt. 10c, 
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