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CENTAUREA - Perennial Bachelor Button 
Hardy perennials of easy culture and attractive appearance. Are showy 
plants in sunny borders, and useful for cut flowers. Flowers are more or 
less thistle-like. 
Culture. All will succeed in good, ordinary soil in sunny borders. Best 
grown in groups of three. Plant in autumn or spring, 8 inches apart; 
divide and replant every third year. 
Macrocephala Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Large, thistle-like, golden yellow flowers; useful for cutting and showy 
in borders. July and August..31/ feet high. 
Montana Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
(Perennial Cornflower.) Grows 2 feet high, bearing large, violet-blue 
flowers from July to September 
Montana alba 
White form of the above. 
Ruthenica Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
This handsome plant grows about five feet high and bears from July 
to September, lovely lemon-yellow flowers. Fine for the background of 
the hardy border. 
Centaurea Montar 
Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Hardy Border Carnations (See page 21) 


Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, White Swan 
CERASTIUM - Chickweed 
Low-growing perennials, suitable for forming edgings to beds or borders, 
or for bold masses in the rock garden. 
Culture. Ordinary soil and a sunny position. Plant in autumn or spring, 
10 to 12 inches apart. 
*Tomentosum Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
(Snow-in-Summer.) A low-growing plant having silvery white foliage, 
and producing an abundance of snow-white flowers in May. Especially 
suitable for rock or border purposes. 
CERATOSTIGMA (See Plumbago Larpentae). 
CHIERANTHUS - Siberian Wallflower 
Hardy plants similar to the Wallflower. They are highly esteemed for 
the delicious fragrance of their flowers, also for the fact of their flow- 
ering so profusely in spring and early summer. 
Culture. Plant in ordinary well drained light garden soil in full sun. 
Soil which is heavy or wet will not do, as plants are easily winter-killed 
if planted in low, wet ground. Plant early autumn or early spring, 6 
to 8 inches apart. Fall planted plants should be lightly protected dur- 
ing the winter. 
* A llioni Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
A beautiful garden plant. Dazzling fiery orange flowers on stems about 
1 foot high. Best used as a biennial as it frequently blooms itself to 
death. Must be planted early in the season to enable it to become well 
established before flowering time. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SPECIES 
Arcticum Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
(The Arctic Daisy). Forms an attractive rosette-like clump, in Sep- 
tember multitudes of flower stems appear, terminated by pure white 
flowers 2 to 214 inches in diameter. These begin to develop the last 
week in September, and continue in good condition throughout October, 
and frequently into November. 
Uliginosum Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
(Syn. Pyrethrum). Giant Daisy. Grows 3 to 4 feet high, covered with 
large, white, daisy-like flowers from June to September. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM LEUCANTHEMUM 
These are the cultivated forms of the very hardy small field Daisies. 
Noted particularly for their early as well as profuse flowering. 
Hartje and Elder Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Very early flowering, medium sized Daisy. Often referred to as the 
“Memorial Daisy.’ Excellent for cutting and good subject for the border. 
White Swan (Double Daisy) Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
This Daisy is also known as the Double White Memorial Day Daisy. The 
two most popular types of Shasta Daisy for garden use are the Max- 
imum, large flowered, and Leucanthemum, the small flowered form. 
White Swan is a very fine small flowered double variety. Its blooms are 
somewhat larger than Pyrethrums; pure white and fully double, excel- 
lent for cutting and most attractive in the garden. Twenty to thirty 
flowers on 24- to 30-inch stems in bloom Memorial Day. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, “ASTRID” (Northland Daisy) 
Astrid is a hybrid of the extremely hardy species, C. Arcticum, and the 
first hybrid of this variety to be introduced. The single, daisy-like flow- 
ers are three inches or more in diameter, and are a lovely shade of shell- 
pink, warmed with old rose tints, with a bright yellow center. The plants 
have attractive light green foliage, not bothered by diseases or insects. It 
is the hardiest hybrid Daisy we know of, having come through the past 
severe winters without protection and without damage. 
Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 

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