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Alneer’s Flower Seeds will please the critical gardener. 29 

Centaurea 
Showy, hardy plants, many having beautiful 
silver foliage, good for ribbon bordering. Sow 
early in house and transplant out doors in May. 
Half hardy annuals. 
Sweet Sultan An excellent sweet scent- 
ed variety, also called 
Imperialis. The flowers are finely lacinated and 
are about the size of a carnation. They have 
long stems and keep well after cutting. Colors 
range through white, rose, lilac, purple and yellow. 
eb ope to aa about eighteen inches high. 
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Double Cornflowers (Centaurea 
Plants grow 2 to 2% ft. tall, 
cyan: fl. pl.) and produce continuously 
large double blooms on long stems throughout 
the summer and fall. Fine for beds, borders and 
cutting. Also called Bluet, Blue Bottle, Ragged 
Sailor, Ragged Robin and Bachelor’s Button. 
Mixed Pkt. 5c, 2 oz. 30c, oz. 50c., 






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CELOSIA 
(Cockscomb.) 

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Celosia (Pride of Castle Gould) 
This new ostrich plume celosia is an entirely distinct 
compact 
extra fine 
giving the plant a most striking 
be grown in the open ground or 
Its quick growing habit and bright 
and intense colors of plumes, with beautiful foliage 
where ever shown. 
The plant grows pyramidal and 
type. 
ie feet high, with immense, 
about 2% 
feathered heads, 
appearance. Can 
as a pot plant. 
are greatly admired by all 
Pkt. 10c. 
Celosia Cristata (Cockscomb) 
Magnificent free flowering, graceful growing plants, 
Sow seed in house in aoe 
a 
hardy annuals. Finest mixed. Pkt. 5c, Y2 oz. 35c. 
very showy and fine. ‘ 
transplant outdoors in May in a sunny place. 
(Celosia 
Chinese Woolflower 
shaped and resemble a ball of wool. 
the latter part of April. Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
Forget-Me- 
Childsii). 
The flowers are ball- 
Sow outdoors 
Chrysanthemums 
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Baby Golden Glow 
Annual Varieties Mixe : 
ave 
Daisies.”’ 
Pkt. 5c, oz. 50c. 
Baby Golden 
Queen) 
Glow 
supply of cut flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
Hardy 
double flowers 3 in. and more 
Blooms profusely during September and October. 
It is perfectly hardy and grows from 2 to 3 ft. 
tall. 
Plant in rich soil. Pkt. 20c. 



CHINESE 
® | FORGET-ME-NOT 
(Cynoglossum  amabile) An 
annual of the easiest culture, 
forming strong, bushy plants 
18 inches high and producing, 
through the summer months, 
sprays of intense blue forget- 
me-not-like flowers. Unsur- 
passed for massed blue bou- 
quets. Highly desirable as blue 
flowers of this shade are scarce. 
Pkt. 5c. 
Clarkia 

d The colors 
the 
appearance of being laid on with a brush; for 
this reason they are sometimes called “Painted 
Mixed annual varieties, easily grown. 
(Golden 
A most charming annual, growing 
about 15 to 18 inches high, bear- 
ing scores of bright yellow double flowers. The 
plants begin to bloom almost as soon as set in 
the open ground, affording an almost unlimited 
COSMOS 
Beautiful summer and fall blooming annuats, 
4 to 6 ft. tall. They are decorative in the 
garden and furnish masses of artistic cut- 
flowers. Of easiest culture in any well- 
drained soil. 

Double Cosmos 
Garden Chrysanthemum 
A marvelous strain with large, single and semi- 
in diameter. 
1 These 
Double Early Flowermg = °<*° 
to a height of about three feet, forming a per- 
fect bush, massed with bloom, bearing beau- 
tiful double flowers of good size, on long 
stems. They come about 65 per cent double 
from seed. Pkt. 10c, % oz. $1.25. 
* = The earli- 
Extra-Early Giant Sensation ere ae 
Cosmos blooming several weeks ahead of any other. 
Has truly marvelous blooms of exceptional size and 
artistic well-rounded form. A most outstanding new 
type. 38 to 4 ft. 
Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Well-branched 
Klondyke Orange Flare Welorayenre 
tall, covered with showy golden orange flowers in 
about 3 months from seed, and continue to bloom 
profusely until frost. Pkt. 5c, 4 oz. 50c. 
; Tall mixed. Pkt. 5c: 
Mammoth Hybridus [77 5° 

Coix Lachrymae (Job’s Tears) 
The seed is frequently used as an old-fashioned 
remedy for sore throat, goiter and teething babies. 
It is strung on a linen thread and worn around the 
neck as a chain. Pkt. 10c. 
Cleome Pungens (Giant Spider Plant) 
The flowers are of a bright rose coler. The long 
slender seed-pods are carried upon still longer 
stipules, giving the effect of a many-legged’ spider, 
with the bright bunch of flowers as the head. It 
grows freely from seed, thrives luxuriantly and 
blooms all summer. It is also one of the very best 
honey-producing plants. Pkt. 5c. 
The flowers have been described as resembling sprays of double flowering almond, 
and the rose and pink tones are especially attractive. They are hardy, germinate 
quickly and flower from July to October. They do well in sandy soil. Pkt. 5c. 
Single, 

oz. $1.00. 
Coreopsis 
COREOPSIS 
One of. our most popular perennials. 
attractive flowers are borne in great pro- 
fusion and are excellent for cutting. 
Mayfield Giant 
golden yellow flowers of graceful 
form. Pkt. 5c, oz. 50c. 
Double Sunburst | 
Double-flowering 
habit to the above. 
semi-double. Splendid for cutting. Pkt. 5c, 
The 
Coreopsis. Similar in 
Flowers double and 

Clarkia 
