Choice FloWer Seeds 
36 
WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 
SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK 
1,APAGEIIIA ROSHA. 
One of the most beautiful greenhouse and conservatory climbers yet 
known; has numerous brilliant carmine-colored, bell-shaped flowers. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
LARKSPUR. 
(Annual Delpblninm.) 
This is one of the best known of English 
garden flowers. A vast improvement has 
been effected, by 
careful selection and 
attentive cultivation, 
in the size and color 
of the blossoms and 
the general habit 
of the plant. For 
large gardens, shrub- 
beries, etc., the 
branching varieties 
will be found pecu- 
liarly well fitted. 
Their colors are rich 
and varied. Hardy 
annual. 
Double Dwarf Rocket. 
Finest mixed colors. 1 
foot oz. 30 cts. . 
Double Tall Rocket. Finest 
mi.xed colors. 2 ft. . oz. 30c. . 
Double Stock -Flowered. 
Long spikes of bloom ; finest 
mixed colors, i ft. . OZ.40C. . 
Emperor. Mixed. A magnifi- 
cent variety, remarkably 
floriferous ; rich colors. 1% 
feet 
Candelabra - Flowered. A 
fine dwarf branching variety, of a great many colors. Mixed. 
I foot 
05 
Larkspur. 
Pkt. 
iSo 10 
Collection of Dwarf Eockets, six separate colors, 30 cents. 
For Perennial Larkspur, see Delphinium, page 31. 
LAXHYRUS (Everlasting Pea). 
These are splendid hardy perennials, profuse bloomers and excellent 
for cutting. Flowers are like those of Sweet Peas, not fragrant, but 
more lasting. Plants live throughout the winter with some protection. 
Pkt. 
Crimson jo 05 
05 
05 
White 
Mixed 
IvAYIA EI^EGANS. 
A pretty hardy annual, growing about i foot high. The flowers 
measure nearly 2 inches in diameter and are of a golden yellow, tipped 
with white. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Very graceful, free-fiowering plants. Z. 
grandiflorum is one of the handsomest 
annuals ever introduced, equally recom- 
mended for its brilliant color and long 
duration in bloom. 
L. flavum is a fine 
gold-colored variety, 
which may also be 
grown in pots. 
Grandiflorum. 
Scarlet, i foot. Pkt. 
5 cts. 
Gran diflorum 
flavum. Yellow. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 
I,A VENDER. 
Well-known hardy 
perennial, bearing 
long spikes of fra- 
grant blue flowers. 
Should be in every 
garden. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Linnm. 
EEMON VERBENA. 
An old favorite, with lemon-scented foliage. Pkt. 10 cts. 
EISIANXHUS RUSSEEEIANUS. 
A magnificent greenhouse plant, with tulip-shaped flowers of a fine, 
rich purple, with a very dark eye in the center. The flower continues 
perfect for two or three weeks. By forcing it early in the spring and 
planting out in the open border, it will probably be found to flower as 
freely as Phlox Drummondii. Pkt. 25 cts. 
EOPHOSPERIflUIKI. 
Exceedingly ornamental climbing plants, with large and handsome 
flowers ; very effective for conservatory or garden decoration. Half- 
hardy annual. ■ pj^^ 
Coccineum. Scarlet $0 10 
Scandens. Rosy purple 10 
LOVE-IN-A-MIST. See Nigella. 
EUPIIVIJS. 
Free-fiowering plants with long spikes of flowers, rich and varied in 
color. Mixed annual varieties. Pkt. 5 cts. 
EYCHNIS. 
Handsome and highly ornamental plants, of easy culture ; strikingly 
effective in mixed flower and shrubbery borders. Hardy perennials. 
Pkt. 
Chalcedonica. Large heads of brilliant scarlet flowers. 2 feet . $0 05 
Alba. Pure white, very ornamental. 2 feet 05 
Finest Mixed Varieties 05 
IHARIGOU. 
The French and African Marigolds are valuable for their flowers in 
autumn, and can be grown to advantage in little clumps with other 
plants in the front 
of shrubberies or 
in the garden 
border. The Af- 
rican varieties 
are the taller in 
growth, and pro- 
duce large self- 
colored blos- 
soms; the French . 
varieties are N.^^j,^*'«Sk ^( 
smaller, some of X > 
them being ele- 
gantly striped 
and spotted. The 
dwarf - growing £^ 'i.r^jCr-l 
kind adapt them- 1/ ^ 
selves to spots 
where the taller 
varieties would 
be unsuitable. 
AFRICAN 
VARIETIES. 
Eldorado . 
Without a doubt t^'^^^^^^^^^ijiSix 
the finest of the '''^^^^^^^^^^^^^'^^^!^^^SHi'i/^=^^ 
African Mari- ' •'^^^%^^ySf^^)^t^^^^^^^&*^ 
golds. Immense ■^-'^^^'^ =^%^^^/r^■^^-^^^^^'>-^'~~^ 
double flowers of "^"i^''' ^'C-Z^J^^^ ''f^^'^fi^^'^-:^ ^ 
many beautiful ' 
shades of yellow. Marigold, Legion d'Honneur. 
Pkt. 10 cts. Pkt. 
Gold Nugget. Dwarf dense growth ; large double flowers of a 
golden yellow color $0 10 
African Quilled. Mixed varieties. 2 feet 05 
FRENCH VARIETIES. 
Gold-Striped. Flowers rich maroon, regularly striped with gol- Pkt. 
den yellow ; habit of plant dwarf and compact jSo 10 
Dwarf French. Finest mixed ; very double, i foot 05 
Legion d'Honneur. A single-flowering Marigold, forming com- 
pact bushes 6 inches high. Begins flowering extremely early, 
commencing in June. The flowers are golden yellow, marked 
with a large spot of velvety crimson lO 
See also Calendula and Tagetes. 
