Archive image from page 41 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 PRICE. Calendula Pongei, fl. pi. Double white, fine, 1 foot 10 . Ranunculoides. Kanunculus-flowered 05 Officinalis Superba. Golden orange, black eye, benutifullv imbricated, .10 Sulphurea. New sulpliur-colored pot marigold; very double and beautiful. .10 CALLIRHOE. Nat. Okd., Makacca. Too much cannot be said in praise of this beautiful summer-flowering annual, fr
Archive image from page 41 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 PRICE. Calendula Pongei, fl. pi. Double white, fine, 1 foot 10 . Ranunculoides. Kanunculus-flowered 05 Officinalis Superba. Golden orange, black eye, benutifullv imbricated, .10 Sulphurea. New sulpliur-colored pot marigold; very double and beautiful. .10 CALLIRHOE. Nat. Okd., Makacca. Too much cannot be said in praise of this beautiful summer-flowering annual, from two to three feet in height, with green sub-digitate leaves and leafy stems, terminating in large panioled racemes of rich violet or purple crimson close-petalled flowers, with white centre, each from one to one and a half inches in width, and partially cupped; commences to bloom when about six inches high, and continues to yielil a succession of its numerous attractive flowers throughout the summer and autumn, till hard frost, forming au elegant object for groups or beds. Callirhoe Pedata. Rich violet-purple, with white eye, from N. America. 2 f. .10 Verticillata. A pretty creeper; flowers like C. Pedata, but doable the size, .10 CALLIOPSIS, or COREOPSIS. Nat. Okd., OmposiUe. This genus is amongst the most sliowy, free-flowering, and beautiful of hardy annuals. The tall varieties are very effective in mixed borders and fronts of shrub- beries; and the dwarf kinds, from their close, compact habit of growth, make fine bedding-plants, and are valuable for edgings; while the diflerent varieties make very pretty ribbons. Hardy annuals. CaUiopsis Bicolor Tinctoria. A well-known favorite, the flowers having a dark-crimson, brown centre, with yellow rays. 2J feet 05 Atropurpurea. Yellow centre, surrounded by a circle of dark pur- ple, beyond which, to the extremity of the petals, it is a fine red. 2 ft. . .06 Cardiminifolia Hybrida. Brilliant yellow; growth, pyramidal. 1} f. .05 Co
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