 | Cockscomb Seeds ( Celosia cristata ). Cockscomb, introduced to Europe from Asia late in the sixteenth century, is a tender annual species whose unusual flower-head is enlarged and flattened like a fan or cockscomb. Thomas Jefferson recorded sowing cockscomb at Shadwell, his boyhood home, in 1767. Thomas Bridgeman's "Florist's Guide", published in New York in 1838, recommended "crimson and yellow" Cockscombs: Peter Henderson reported in 1890 that they were "almost universally grown." Sow the seeds indoors several weeks before the last... - Cockscomb Seeds ( Celosia cristata ). |
