WILLIAM ELLIOTT & SONS’ 
Sixty-Sixth Annual Catalogue 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1911 
Ageratum 
Mexicanum Capella 
This new Tom Thumb Ageratum differs essentially from all other 
dwarf varieties by the decidedly distinct and pretty rosy-chamois 
color of its large flower clusters. 
Pkt. 25c. 
Antirrhinum Majus 
“Ruby” 
A strikingly beautiful new variety 
and main color of the very popular 
Tall Snapdragon. The flowers are 
self-colored, bright ruby red, and of 
surprising effect. This novelty is at 
the same time a charming plant for 
tall beds and groups, and highly valu- 
able as a cut flower. Pkt. 15c. 
Antirrhinum 
Milajus 
Defiance 
Tall Snapdragon with vermilion 
scarlet flowers, as bright and effective 
in color as that of the demi-tall va- 
riety of the same name. Pkt. 20c. 
Aquilegia 
Coerulea Candidissima 
Very pretty and graceful new Col- 
umbine of the long spurred tribe with 
large flowers of the purest snow white. 
Foliage light green. Pkt. 25c. 
Begonia Gracilis 
“Prima Donna” 
The plant is of very sturdy and even 
habit, growing to about 10 inches, and 
forming a freely branching bush, 10 
to 12 inches across. The characteris- 
tic feature is its uncommonly large 
flowers which are of a limpid rose, 
shading to earmine toward the center. Hxtremely early variety and 
comes true from the seed. Pkt. 20c. 
Begonia Gracilis 
Luminosa 
_ Large, bright, deep scarlet flowers and magnificent satiny, brown- 
ish red foliage. Pkt. 25e. 
Bidens Atrosanguinea 
Hybrida 
New hybrids gained by artificial crossing of the velvety blackish 
crimson Bidens atrosanguinea (Dahlia Zimapanii) with Dahlia 
Merckii. The colors of the flowers, 134 to 2 inches across, vary in 
all shades from rosy-carmihe, light and dark crimson to deep blood 
red. Elegant and decorative border plants. Height about 1% feet. 
The cut flowers are greatly prized oe vases and bouquets. 
t. Co 
Dimorphotheca Aurantiaca 
_Yetain their freshness in water a long time. 
Cosmidium Burridgeanum 
Orange Crown 
Very handsome new annual, forming elegant, many-branched 
bushes of 1144 to 2 feet in height. The flower heads, 14% to 1% 
inches in diameter, are carried an long, slender but self-supporting 
stems well above the graceful linear foliage. Ray florets golden yel- 
low with a broad conspicuous circle of a rich orange around the 
disc, a pleasing combination of colors. As the plants produce a 
constant succession of bloom throughout the Summer and the 
flowers lasting well in water for days, this novelty will prove to 
be very useful for cutting purposes. 
Pkt. 20c. 
Dimorphotheca Aurantiaca 
A rare and extremely showy annual 
from South Africa, which will soon be- 
come a great favorite on account of its 
very easy culture and its beautifully 
colored flowers. The plants, of very 
neat branching habit, grow about 12 
to 15 inches high and are exceed- 
ingly profuse in flowering. Its Mar- 
guerite-like blossoms, 244 to 2%4 
inches in diameter, show a_ unique 
glossy rich orange-gold, which brilliant 
coloring is rendered the more con- 
spicuous by the dark colored dise sur- 
rounded by a black zone. This splen- 
did annual is well adapted for groups 
or borders; it produces its pretty flow- 
ers very early after being planted out 
in the open ground in sunny situations 
and will continue to flower during the 
Summer months. <A bed in full bloom 
is a magnificent sight on bright days. 
Pkt. 20c. 
Delphinium Belladonna 
Everblooming Hardy Larkspur 
The freest and most continuous 
blooming Hardy Larkspur, never being 
out of flower from the end of June 
until cut down by severe frost. ‘The 
clear turquoise blue of its flowers is 
not equaled for delicacy and beauty by 
any other flower. Seed sown early 
the coming Spring will produce plants 
that will bloom freely through the 
late Summer and Autumn. 
Pkt. 15c. 
Freesia Hybrida Ragionieri 
The beautiful, scented flowers are tinted in the most various 
shades of pink, rose, purple, blue, violet, orange, sulphur yellow, 
brown, often delicately spotted and veined. As cut flowers they 
3 Of the same easy 
culture as the old white Freesias, the plants are of strong growth 
and well adapted: for forcing. Seedlings will show bloom 6 to 7 
months after the sowing. Pkt. 25c. 
Gerbera Jamesonii Hybrida 
One of the most interesting introductions of recent years. These 
distinct and beautiful hybrids embrace the most exquisite and deli- 
cate shades of yellow, rose, cherry red, salmon, terra cotta, to 
erimson and white. This grand race of plants is of easy cultiva- 
tion and can be grown im any garden in a sheltered position or on 
a_ warm border where protection can be given during severe weather. 
Excellent for cutting, table decoration, or as pot plants. 
Pkt. 40c, 
