Novelties and Specialties Il WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
Helianthus Cucumerifolius 
Purpureus 
Red colored annual Sunflowers, varying from light pink to the deepest purplish 
red. The form of the flowers is also greatly different ; flat-petalled as well as twisted 
or pointed. Pkt. 20c. 
Kochia Trichophylla 
Summer Cypress 
A pretty half-hardy annual, 2 to 3 feet in height, pyramidal habit, small feathery 
light green foliage deepening as the season advances until it becomes a lovely crim- 
son hue about September. Makes an elegant pot or outdoor plant. Pkt. 10c. 
Marigold Single Grandiflora 
“Beauty” 
The flowers are large and beautifully striped golden on brown. The plant is 
of compact habit and very showy. Pkt. 1lidc. 
My osotis—Ruth Fischer 
Sic Plants of particularly neat and compact habit. The dark blue flowers measure 
DL 1% inch across and shoot up strongly over the glossy dark green foliage. Excellent 
for pots as well as for bedding. Pkt. 25e. 
Petunia Hybrida “Rosy-Morn” 
The pretty flowers, covering the full grown plant by the hundreds, are brilliant rose with large white throat and white center; it is 
indeed so extremely vivid a color, as seldom flowers will show, and therefore was received with great favor for its consistence in contrast 
to other Petunia sorts. Pkt. 15e. a Z 
Rudbeckia Bicolor Solfatara 
Distinct and very floriferous new annual Rudbeckia, about 214 feet high, bearing long-stalked flowers 3 to 4 in. across. The 
sulphur-yellow colored ray florets contrast well with the dark brown disk. Pkt. 25e. 
Schizanthus Wisetonensis 
(Butterfly or Fringe Flower) 
This variety is now largely used as a pot plant for the house or conservatory. 
It is remarkably free-flowering, and presents a beautiful appearance with its myriads 
of blooms, the ground color of w hich is white, dotted with delicate rose, with a large 
spot on the upper lip varying in shade between golden yellow, carmine, rose and 
light brown. Pkt. 25e. 
Stokesia Cyanea (Cornflower Aster) 
This is not new, but is a rare and beautiful hardy perennial. The plant grows 
about 24 inches high, each bearing from 20 to 30 handsome lavender-blue Cornflower- 
like blossoms ; in bloom from July until frost. Indispensable for cutting. Pkt. 10e. 
Sweet William—Diadem 
A grand and most striking novelty. The flowers are deep rich crimson, with a 
well defined white eye. Quite distinct from all HELO Et Pkt. 20c. 
Sweet Peas 
"Maud Holmes” 
Sunproof Crimson Spencer 
One of the finest novelties 
of recent introduction; flow- 
ers are of the largest size, 
three and four to a stem, 
of brilliant crimson; blooms 
are of the true waved type. 
Pkt. (20 seeds) 25c. 
Ethel Roosevelt 
The ground color is a soft. 
pleasing primrose, or straw 
color, overlaid with dainty 
flakes and splashes of blush 
crimson. The crimson is 
not at all pronounced and 
simply gives some warmth 
and golden tinting to the 
yellowish ground work. = 
Myosotis ‘Pkt. (20 seeds) 25c. Maud Holmes Sweet Pea 
Gerbera Jamesonii Hybrida 
