This newspaper is indebted to Peninah Overton of Weeksville for a coxcomb weighing 2 ½ pounds, as fine a specimen of this flower as the editor ever saw. This colored woman has wonderful success with every variety of flowering plant grown in this section.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Oct. 26, 1922. The photo is from outsidepride.com, a seed company. The newspaper spells the flower 'coxcomb' and the seed company 'cockscomb'.
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