IV. ELLIOTT’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1894. 
—,— **Harlequin’’ Sweet William. 
This remarkable and exquisitely beautiful 
new Sweet William is without exception the 
finest variety yet introduced as was to all who 
saw the ‘‘New Harlequin’’ in full wealth of 
bloom the past summer. As a mass they are 
extremely effective and the plants individually 
are especially attractive, bearing numerous 
large heads of flowers, from four to five inches 
across, each head being composed of different 
colored florets, such as dark crimson, white, 
pink, flesh striped, etc., etc.; these colors bank- 
ing against each other in charming profusion, 
produce a very bizarre effect and bring out 
a richness and vividness of coloring by the 
sharp contrast that we have never before seen 
equalled Price per packet, 1d cents. 
BARNARD’S 
PERPETUAL 
LOBELIA. 
This splendid novelty is without doubt the 
finest Lobelia yet raised. The flowers are of 
the most brilliant ultramarine blue, strikingly 
ornamented with a pure white marking at the 
base of each of the two lower petals. It is of 
compact habit, and alike useful for bedding or 
growing in pots, while the bright and effective 
coloring of its flowers, combined with its per- 
petual blooming character, ensures it the 
premier position in parterres and ribbon 
borders. Price per packet, 50 cents. 
New White Sweet Pea 3 
“EMILY HENDERSON” @ 
A beautiful acquisition of American origin. 
Absolutely pure white as clear as alabaster 
and as lustrous as satin. The flowers are « 
extra large of remarkable substance and perfect form, broad, round standards without the slightest tendency to curl. The stems 
are stiff and long, supporting the blossoms so that they stand out boldly giving them an added value for cutting. For earliness it 
outrivals all its competitors, howering neatly two weeks earlier than any of the other varieties and continues to bloom to the end of 
Autumn. It takes the lead for forcing under glass on account of its color, earliness, its short stocky growth and immense size of its 
long stemmed flowers. Price per packet, 15 cents. 
NEW STRAIN OF PETUNIAS. 
“GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA.” 
The grand improvements in Petunias for the past few years left the impression that the acme of perfection had been reached, but 
such was not the case. Our grower, a specialist in California, after crossing, hybridizing and selecting for several years, starting 
from the finest sorts then obtainable in Europe and Aeerica, aided by congenial culture and climate, has produced a strain of incom- 
parable beauty, size and luxuriance, and remarkabe in may respects. They are very deep throated. Most of the flowers are exquis- 
itely ruffled or fringed on the edges, and are of enormous dimensions, often 5 inches across, but their great merits lie in the innumer- 
able varieties of colors, many of them intense; with markings, veining, blotchings and stripings, in the most grotesque and beautiful 
combinatiofis—some with charming deep throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, running off into intricate veins, or 
exquisitely pencilled combinations quite new in Petunias. Some cf the colors are rich and gorgeous, and others of lovely delicate 
shades; the flowers are moreover of great substance. Price per packet, 23 cents. 
ZL NAMED HYBRIDS OF ESPECIAL MERIT. 
Petunia, Giant of California—“ Snowstorm.” 
Extra large flowers, 4 to 5 inches in diameter, of splendid substance; purest glistening white, with ruffled or fringed edges; 
deep yellow throat. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
aE Petunia, Giant of California—*‘ Aurora.”’ 
The handsomest of all Petunias, a particularly lovely shade of rosy pink, with a distinct red band around the deep, exquisitely 
pencilled w/z7e throat; the howers are of immense size and perfect shape. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
Petunia, Giant of California—* Midnight.”’ 2 
The coloring of this variety is rich beyond description ; dark claret crimson, with asurface bloom like that of a purple plum. In 
the sunlight it looks like crumpled velvet. The flowers are of immense size—4 to 4 inches across, with fringed edges and deep 
intricately veined throats. Price per packet, 24 cents, 
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