. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. PUT. Celosia, Violet-fcathered. — Veiy inleresciiig novelty, with largo pluraoso flower- spikes of a lino violet color 50 1056 Centaurea Gymnocarpa. — An exceedingly lino decorative beiUling-plant, with elegant and linely-dividod silveo'foH.'ige. Yen' altraeiive .\nd oniamontal. eitlicr as siiiglo plants, or in groups, or in ribbon-planliin; ..... .15 1057 Centauroa Candidisaima. — A beautiful and |)lc


. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. PUT. Celosia, Violet-fcathered. — Veiy inleresciiig novelty, with largo pluraoso flower- spikes of a lino violet color 50 1056 Centaurea Gymnocarpa. — An exceedingly lino decorative beiUling-plant, with elegant and linely-dividod silveo'foH.'ige. Yen' altraeiive .\nd oniamontal. eitlicr as siiiglo plants, or in groups, or in ribbon-planliin; ..... .15 1057 Centauroa Candidisaima. — A beautiful and |)lctm-csquo liardy bedding-plant, with fine silveiy foliage. Admirably for Ilowor-gardijn decoration in ribbon-lines, or in groups, or singla i)lants 25 I057i Cineraria hybrida, fl. pi. — A new of Double Cineraria 1058 Clarkia, New Double (Purple King, Salmon Queen, White). — In fonn, and lirni, bolil, double , llicse far sur|)as3 anv jircvious introduction of tliu popular flower; wbil;!t the richness and novel beauty of coloring they possess stamp them as a welcome addilion to our hardy Buninicr Ilowci-s. The bloonjs may bo compared to llio finest Double in substance; and this peculiar chai aeter renders tlio Uowei-s of a nn:ch moro durablo ch;inictcr tlLan the ordinary Clarkias, and, as cut blooms, thoy will prove a valuable acquisi- tion. Kacli color . 25 1059 Clypeola Cyclodontea. — A charining small CruciCcra; (Crossworl), of a fine green coloi-, with small yellow llowers, which are hardly apparent, but are soon succeeded by hundreds of Ihit, purso-liUe pods, nrctlily fringed, and producing a most singtdar appearance. It is well .adapted for specimens in borders and rockeries. This iilant is quite a curiosity 25 1060 Convolvulus Minor (New Crimson Violet). — The flowers are very striking. They have a bright yellow eye, encircled wilh a baud of snowy white, broiully margined with rich crim>on violet, varying in


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