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2161 FIESTA COSMOS ie 
All America Top Award Winner. 
There is true scarlet in this Cos- 
mos. Fiesta makes a compact 2% 
foot plant with a riot of bloom all 
summer long. Flowers are semi- 
double and ruffled. Excellent as a 
eut flower for the house, also a 
handsome. border subject for the 
garden. Pkt., 25 cts.; 2 for 40 cts.; 
Vy oz., $1.00 
2158 Job’s Tears—Coix 
Lachryma 
Seed dried and used for 
beads. An interesting annual, 
ornamental grass which does 
well on any ordinary soil. 
Grow 2 to 3 feet tall. The 
seeds when dried are a silver 
erey in color. Pkt. 15 cts.; 
oz. 35 cts.; 14 Ib. 80 cts. 
Cineraria 
2152 Cineraria. Hybrids—Large Flowering Mixed. 
Tender perennial. 16 to 24 inches. A very decora- 
tive plant for greenhouse and indoor pot culture 
(keep in a cool place). Large velvety leaves are 
clustered at the base, and over them is massed a 
gorgeous array of large daisy-like flowers in strik- 
ing color contrasts. I offer all color combinations 
mixed, PkKt., 60 cts.; 2 Pkts. for $1.00. 
Ne ua 
COSMOS 
2159 Cosmos—Double Mammoth 
Early Flowering Mixed. (Annual). 
No garden is complete without 
Cosmos. Showy plants, 8 to 4 ft. 
tall, covered with a mass of lovely 
crested flowers. Particularly fine 
for cutting because the flowers 
last a long time. My strain pro- 
duces a large percentage of double 
po best Pkt., 20 cts.; 44 02., 75 
cts. 
2160 Single Early Flowering Mixed. 
Celosia—Woolflower 
2141 Chinese Woolflower. Crimson, Celosia-Childsii— 
Annual. .A charming type of Celosia with large rounded 
woolly flower-heads borne on strong stems from mid- 
summer until frost. The plants grow 2 ft. tall and are 
completely covered with flowers. Splendid for garden 
display and highly valued for cutting. Pkt., 15 cts.; 4% 
oz., 40 cts.; 44 0z., 65 cts. 
2148 Celosia. Cristata Cockscomb — Annual. Choicest 
Mixed. Tremendous showy flower-heads or combs of a 
velvety finish but strawy in texture. The heads often 
mneasure a foot or more in diameter, Pkt., 15 cts.; ¥% OZ, 
40 cts.; %4 oz., 65 cts. : 
2142 Celosia. Plumosa or Plumed Varieties—Annual. All 
Colors Choicest Mixed. The plumed Celosias grow 3 to 4 
ft. tall and each one of the many branches is covered byj 
a large, pomted, silky flower-head. Pkt., 15 cts.; ¥ Ody 
40 cts.; % oz., 65 cts. 
2163 Celosia, Toreador 
(All America Winner for 1955) 
Announcing the newest in Celosias, 
Color—bright red with scarlet highlights and green 
foliage. Uniform height of 20 inches tall. Grown easily 
plants that were covered with bloom 
Pkt., 10 cts.; 4% oz., 50 cts. 
2542 Cosmos Radiance 
All America Silver Medal Winner. Radiance 
kinds. 
Pkt., 25 cts.; % oz., 90 ets. 
in all sections—sown direct. Used in borders, cut flowers 2141 
and unusual flower arrangements, kt., 30 cts.; 2 pkts. ° 
for 50 cts. Chinese 
Wool- 
Foxglove or Digitalis flower 
Height 2% 
to 3 feet. 
— Perennial. Handsome 
and highly ornamental 2146 Centaurea 
aardy plants of stately iali 43, 
growth, succeeding under Howla ey rhe PR orn 
almost all conditions, and hau ail Aliree on aes 
with but little attention mixed. Finest of all 
will give-a- wealth of flow- 
ers during June and July. 
They are now used exten- 
sively with good effect for 
naturalizing with shrubs, 
or at the edge of woods or 
other half shady places. 
Gloxiniaefiora. Finest 
strain with handsome 
spotted Gloxinia-like flow- 
ers on long stems. Pkt, 
25 cts.; 44 0oz., 85 cts. 
Sweet Sultans for cut 
flower purposes. Pkt., 
15 ets.; %4 0z., 50 ets. 
Choicest Double Mixed Annual. They 
are easy to grow and bloom continuously. 
2150 Chrysanthemum Annual 
Coronarium—Shumway’s Supreme Mixed 
The Annual Chrysanthemums do best where the 
weather remains reasonably cool during the summer. 
They are easily grown. The flowers appear within ten 
weeks after the seeds are sown. Blooms continuously 
from June until September. For fall blooming, sow 
during June and thin to stand 12 to 15 in¢hes apart in 
ers, + Pkt, 
90 cts. 
15 cts.; Y% oz, 50 cts.; 
Trumpet) 
Annual 3 ft. 
sown in the open ground April 27th produced 
20th, two months before the late-flowering 
duces two entirely new colors in Sensation Cosmos: 
Striking deep rose and rich crimson, in the first bicolor 
Cosmos ever to be developed. Destined for immediate 
popularity in the nation’s gardens, it is the first big 
postwar novelty. 
2145 Bachelor’s Button (Cornflowers) 
Just sow the seed broadeast wherever you 
want the plants to grow. A perfected strain 
producing larger flowers, more double, with 
vivid colors of blues, pinks and white on 
long wiry stems, making excellent cut flow- 
0Z., 
Good Seeds Cheap—Good as Can Be Grown—None Better at Ainy Price 
2157 
_ Coreopsis 
_ A Beautiful 
_ Bedding 
or Cut 
spttees: - Flower — 
COREOPSIS — 
2157—Coreopsis Lanceolata Grandifiora. 
Double Flowering Hardy Perennial, 2 ft. 
Blooms June to October. Large orange- 
yellow flowers, with broad petals lanced . 
and fluted, borne gracefully on long stems. — 
Desirable for bedding and border. PkEt., 207 
cts.; %4 02Z., 60 cts. : 
Seeds 
July 
intro- 
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2144 Centrosema 
(Perennial Climber.) Butterfly Pea. 
10 ft. A hardy vine of rare beauty bear- 
ing in profusion pea-shaped flowers 
which range in color from rosy violet to 
reddish purple, with backs of pure 
white. Pkt., 25 cts. 
pinched out. Pkt., 15 cts. 
the row. A very fine garden variety including a wide “ i z Neate 
range of colors such as white, rose, sulphur-yellow, Bone 
golden yellow, orange, red and maroon; 18 inches tall. en 1 
Pkt., 20 cts.; 34 02, 40 cts.; % o., GO cts. 2180 Didi C 1 en 2148 Dusty Miller 
1discus oeruleus ; subtropical (Centaurea Gymnocarpa) — Annual. 
Blue Iace Flower (Annual). ‘ pla nts for One of the prettiest of ornamental | 
8 ft. Charming blue annual, with summer bed- leaved plants for borders, vases, edg- 
dainty lavender and blue: flowers cae ; ings -or bedding. If used for ribbon 
which resemble Queen Anne’s Lace ding, having| beds, the flower stalks should be 
of our roadsides. Excellent for 
bedding and desirable cut flower. shaped fra 
They shoul: 
a sunny shel 
Make fine po 
house. 
PEt -25Ctsy 
2165 Cleome (Annual) 
Beautiful 
Annual 
Flower 
2180 Blue Lace Flower 
ii 
M a zr hi 
2150 Shumway’s Supreme Mixe 
Chrysanthemum 
rose flowers, of easy bloomin 
until late in the fall. 
25 cts. 
cultivation, 
grant flowers. 
be given a 
light soil and 
tered position. 
plants for the 
Pungens (Spider Plant). 5 ft. A showy gar- 
den annual producing curious heads of bright 
A good bee plant. Pkt., 
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2165 Cleome 
Pungens Spider Plant 
