5 STRAWBERRY CORN—x. A miniature Corn with 2-inch 
mahogany red ears that look like big strawberries. Grown 
for winter bouquets. Will pop. Pkt. 20c; 3 for 50c. 
2 COSTUS IGNEUS—Handsome pot plant. Wide, glossy 
leaves, spirally arranged, are centered with a cone-cluster 
of orange scarlet flowers. Plants, each $1.50. 
2 COSTUS SPECIOSUS—w. Showy pot plant. Large leaves, 
silky below. White flowers, yellow-centered, and with red 
bracts. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. Plants, each 60c. 
1 COTULA SQUALIDA—Desirable low perennial for rock 
garden or carpeting. Densely packed foliage featherings, 
bronze in sun, green in shade. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.60. 
2 COTYLEDON ORBICULATA—w. Attractive pot plant. 
peeceue, succulent, red-margined leaves. Decorative flowers. 
t. 30c. 
1 COTYLEDON SIMPLICIFOLIA—k(2)8. A pretty, fully 
hardy succulent perennial for the rock garden. Graceful 
sprays of little golden flowers. From the Caucasus. Pkt. 25c. 
2 CRASSULAS FOR WINDOWS 
CRASSULA ARGENTEA— Jade Plant. Thick, rugged 
branches with large, succulent leaves in jade-like sheen 
and color. Grown for attractive foliage and picturesque form. 
Makes handsome specimens. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.60. 
CRASSULA TETRAGONA—Baby Pine of China. The branch- 
ing plants with their thick spike-leaves of deep emerald, do 
suggest miniature Pine trees. Plants, each 55c; 3 for $1.50. 
CRASSULAS MIXED—w. Seeds of many kinds of diverse, 
beautiful Crassulas in mixture. They make attractive, and 
easy, window plants. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 70c. 
2 BRIGHT CROSSANDRA 
Month after month the 
attractive plants of CROS- 
SANDRA UNDULAEFO- 
LIA carry their wide clusters 
of over-lapping blossoms 
in delightful tones of rich 
salmon. A _ beautiful, and 
satisfactory window pot 
plant. Illustrated opposite. 
“w??, Pkt. of 6 seeds for 
35c. Plants, each $1.25; 3 
for $3.60. (For related spe- 
cies that make desirable 
pot plants, all of them, 
like Crossandra, members 
of the Acanthus family, see 
Jacobinia, Phlogacanthus, 
3 Ruellia Makoyana, Eran- 
themum, Fittonia and Beloperone). 
FOR WINDOW PLANTS, kinds suitable for pot culture 
in window or greenhouse, watch for the varieties with 
numeral two, ‘2”’ before the name. To find ANNUAL 
FLOWERS, watch for ‘5’’ before the name. To find 
HARDY PERENNIALS, watch for ‘‘1’’ before the name. 
For BULBS, watch for numeral ‘3”’, and to find SHRUBS 
or TREES, look for kinds marked ‘‘4’’. 
1 CRAWFURDIA SPECIOSA—kt. Himalayan Climbing 
Gentian. Herbaceous vine, to 6 feet, set up and down with 
clustered, deep blue flowers. Pkt. 25c. 
1 CREMANTHODIUM RENIFORME—kKt.(3)20. Above shin- 
ing foliage rosettes come big, solitary orange daisies on 
purple stems. Hardy Himalayan species. Pkt. 20c. 
5 CREPIS RUBRA—kt(3)15. Blossoms very like larger 
Dandelions in pure pink, or sometimes white. Easy, if sown 
early. Long in bloom. Pkt. 20c; 3 for 50c. 
4 CREPE MYRTLE—kt. Lagerstroemia indica. Exceedingly 
handsome blossoms, pink to crimson. Wood-hardy to Phil- 
adelphia. In colder areas it behaves as an herbaceous peren- 
nial, blooming on new growth of each current season. 
Pkt. 20c. 
3 CROCUS ZONATUS—-y (38-4)6. In autumn it surprises with 
a lavish showing of lavender cup-flowers, zoned orange deeply 
within. Pkt. 15c; 144 oz. 30c; %4 oz. 50c. 
3 CROCUS TOMMASINIANUS--y. Silvery lavender flowers 
at first hint of spring. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
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1 CRUCIANELLA STYLOSA—k(2-3)5. Many clusters of 
little, starry flowers in crimson-toned pink, over fine-foliaged 
mats. Rock garden or ground cover. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 
65c. 
2 THE ORNAMENTAL CROTONS 
Large pot plants with brilliantly colored foliage. Scarce 
two plants will be alike, in form of leaf, in coloring, or in 
marking. Not difficult to grow at ordinary room heat, unless 
winter temperature is allowed to drop unduly at night. Also 
sometimes used in summer garden effects, plunged in the 
border, or even for bedding. Each seedling will be a new, 
variety, to be further propagated, if desired, by cuttings. 
Seeds grow quite readily if sown under glass. 4 seeds for 
25c; 18 seeds for $1.00. (Codiaeum pictum varigatum.) 
THE VARIED CUPHEAS 
Interesting, colorful plants, all blooming first year. 
5 CUPHEA AVALON HYBRIDS— 
x(8)20. An easy and gay long- 
blooming annual that shows amaz- 
ing color range; lavender, lilac, 
pink, white, rose, purple, crimson 
and. scarlet. Illustrated opposite. 
Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
5 CUPHEA FIREFLY — Like a 
dwarf, compact variant of the last, 
with blossoms that are all in bril- 
liant fire red. Desirable both as a 
pot plant, and in the garden. Pkt. 
20c; Ye oz. 35c. 
2 CUPHEA PLATYCENTRA—(C. ignea), w(8)10. Called 
Firecracker Flower or Cigar Plant. An almost incessant 
bloomer, tubular flowers in brightest red, each with white tip. 
Desirable pot plant, easy from seed. Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 65c. 
| Time steals itself unaware. | 
4 CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA—k. Handsome, pyramidal 
tree, the Temple Evergreen of Japan. Young seedlings may 
be grown as pot plants, in Araucaria effect. Pkt. 20c; 
Y% oz. 45c. 
2 CRYPTANTHUS ACAULIS ROSEUS—A delightful 
Bromeliad for pot culture. Rosettes of tapering, undulate 
leaves, banded with pink-flushed olive and old rose. Plants, 
each 65c; 3 for $1.75. 
2 CRYPTANTHUS ZONATUS—Easy pot plant for spec- 
tacular foliage effects. Wide, bronzed leaves are heavily 
cross-barred in gray to gold, with lengthwise, purple center 
stain. Plants, each $1.50. 
2 CURCULIGO CAPITULA—w. Unusual Amarylliad, grown 
as a pot plant. Drooping clusters of yellow star-flowers 
center the arching, oddly tremulous foliage. Pkt. 25c. 
3 CYRTANTHUS or IFAFA LILY 
Pretty South African bulbs of the Ama- 
ryllis family. The slender, waxen trumpets 
are carried in clusters. Desirable for pot 
culture, increasing by division, and even- 
tually filling a large pot. 2 varieties, potted 
bulbs, at 60c each. LUTESCENS—Soft, 
glossy yellow. MACKENI—Ivory white. 
1 EASY CYNOGLOSSUM 5 
All of the Cynoglossums may be treated 
as annuals, and some of them are truly so, 
as the Amabiles. Others will live for years. 
AMABILE BLUEBIRD—25 inches. Chinese 
Forgetmenot. Lustrous indigo. Pkt. 15e. 
AMABILE PINK—The last in pleasing 
lilac-rose. Pkt. 15e. AMABILE SNOWBIRD 
—Here the sprays are snowy-white. Pkt. 15e. AMABILE 
PEERLESS—Unsegregated color variations. in blue from pal- 
est to deepest, white and suffusions, rosy tints. Pkt. 15¢e; Ye 
eS 0G ee aaa eee ees Decorative, silvery foli- 
\ arching Mower-sprays above, in a silvered sky blue. 
es ae Rg eae caste tees Attractive hardy eonen 
oO igh garden merit. owers of deep azure. Pkt. 20c; 
3 for 50c. OFFER 331A—One pkt. each OE above for 85c. 
