wM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
BALSAM 
Showy and easily grown tender annuals, succeeding best in sunny sit- 
(Lady’s Slipper) 
uations where there is rich loam and moisture; July to Sept. 1 to 144 ft. | 
| shady situation. 
Elliott’s Double White Perfection. 
soms of great substance. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Solferino. Satiny white, streaked and spotted with crimson and 
lilac. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Perfect form, large blos- 
Improved Double Rose-Flowered Balsams 
These varieties embrace the cream of the elass. 
White. Pkt. 5 cts. Violet. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Ealery cllow. aioe Extra Choice Double Mixed from 
choice varieties. Pkt. 10 ets., oz. $1.50. 
Rose. Pkt. 5 cts. 
. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Scarlet S Fine Double Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 
50 ets. 
Crimson. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Lilac. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Imported collections of twelve sepa- 
rate colors, $1.00; six separate colors, 
50 ets. 
Aristolochia Sipho 
(Dutchman’s Pipe) 
Rapid-growing, hardy perennial 
climber, with large green leayes, mak- 
ing a dense shade. Flowers are very 
curiously shaped. Pkt. 10 ets. 
ARNEBIA CORNUTA 
A charming annual with exceedingly 
beautiful flowers of a rich yellow color, 
marked with five black spots. These 
spots change on the second day toa deep 
maroon, and disappear on the third day, 
leaving the flower a pure yellow. Pkt. 
LO cts. 
AURICULA 
(Primula auricula) 
A well-known favorite of great beauty. 
Half-hardy perennial. Finest mixed, 
saved from choicest varieties. Pkt. 25c. 
ASPARAGUS 
Broussoneti. One of the finest 
hardy perennial climbers; feathery 
foliage and bright red berries, 10 feet. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 
Plumosus nanus. A graceful 
greenhouse climber, having feathery, 
lace-like foliage finer than the most 
delicate fern. Makes a fine house plant. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
Sprengeri. A most desirable va- 
riety, invaluable for hanging baskets. 
The fronds frequently grow four feet long, and are covered with leaves 
of a rich shade of green. Pkt. 10 ets. 
ASPERULA 
Profuse-blooming hardy plants, thriving best among shrubbery or any 
partially shady places. . 
Azurea Setosa. Light blue. 
Odorata 
Pkt. 5 ets. 
Annual. Pkt. 5 ets. 
(Sweet Woodruff), White. Very fragrant. Perennial. 
BALLOON VINE 
Rapid-growing annual climber, succeeding best in a warm situation. 
Small, white flowers, followed by inflated seed vessels, which look like 
minature balloons. Pkt. 5 ets. 
25 
Bellis (Double Daisy) 
Choice Flower Seeds 
BELLIS (Double Daisy) 
Charming little plants, admirably adapted for borders and edgings. 
Sow early in the house, and when large enough transplant to partially 
Alba fl. pl. Pure white. Pkt.10ec. Longfellow. Large-flowering, 
Rubra fl. p!. Red. Pkt. 10 ets, dark rose, Pkt. 10 ets. 
Snowball. Large flowering, Maxima. Extra large mixed. 
Pkt. 10 ets. 
pure white. Pkt. 10 cts. 
BEGONIA 
The yalue of the single-flowered Tuberous Begonias for bedding pur- 
poses has been fully established, and the gorgeous effects they have pro- 
duced have readily given them precedence over the more ordinary bedding 
plants. Seed sown in February or March will produce nice plants for 
planting out in June. 
Laing’s Gold Medal Hybrid. These tuberous-rooted Begonias 
have attained a world-wide reputation. Seed of this unrivaled collection 
procured direct. 
Single. Choicest mixed. Pkt. 50 cts. 
Double. Choicest mixed. Pkt. 75 ets. 
Double Mixed. Saved from the very 
finest hybrids. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Single Mixed. From finest single 
varieties. Pkt. 15 cts. 
Erfordia. A dwarf hybrid variety 
with small, glossy, dark green leaves, 
und delicate rosy-carmine flowers; one 
of the best bedding sorts. Pkt 50 ets. 
Luminosa. Large, bright, deep 
searlet fiowers and magnificent satiny, 
brownish red foliage. Pkt. 25 ets. 
Vernon, This variety is of unusual 
value as a bedding plant, as it will stand 
our hotsummer sun. Easily raised from 
seed, and if started in spring will pro- 
duce flowering plants early in the sum- 
mer. Also a most satisfactory house 
plant, being literally a mass of bloom 
the entire winter; carmine flowers. 
Pkt. 10e. 
Ornamental-Leaved, Rex Va- 
rieties. Large, handsome leaves, dark 
green, variegated with red-bronze, red, 
and silver-white ; greenhouse perennial. 
1 foot. Pkt. 25 ets. 
BARTONIA AUREA 
Producing showy golden-yellow flow- 
ers above its gray and downy thistle- 
like foliage, which is exceedingly bril- 
liant in the sunshine. Sow it where it 
is to remain, as it does not bear trans- 
planting; annual, 2 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 
BIDENS ATROSANGUINEA 
Showy annual, with flowers of a dark blood-red color; fine for cutting. 
Pkt. 5 cts. 
BOCCONIA JAPONICA 
Stately evergreen shrub, with ornamental toliage; very effective for 
single specimens or groups onlawns; long spikes of creamy white flow- 
ers. Pkt. 5ets. 
BRACHYCOME (Swan River Daisy) 
Very pretty low-growing annuals, suitable for edgings or pot culture; 
blooms profusely throughout the summer. 
Iberidifolia, White. Pkt. 5c. Iberidifolia, Mixed, Pkt. 5c. 
Iberidifolia, Blue. Pkt. 5c. 
Bowker’s Plant Food produces an abundance cf blossoms and healthy foliage 
