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ELLIOTT’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1895. HI. 
Novelties and Specialties in Flower Seeds 
ASTER, 
NEW WHITE 
BRANCHING. 
It is with pleasure we offer to flower lovers 
a variety of Aster having some peculiar and 
very valuable characteristics. The plant is a 
strong grower, and its tendency to form nu- 
merous branches is very marked. It continues 
to grow late in the season and blooms corre- 
spondingly late, thus giving its crop of flowers 
late in autumn when there is a scarcity of 
bloom. ‘The flowers are pure white, borne on 
very long stems. The petals are broad, long, 
and many of them are more or less twisted 
and curled in such a manner as to give the 
blooms the appearance of large loose and grace- 
ful Chrysanthemums. ‘The resemblance is so 
great that nearly everyone would so consider 
them when seen as cut flowers. There is no 
uestion that they will quickly find a place for 
themselves anticipating as they do the Chrys- 
anthemum by a month or six weeks, a 
Price per packet, 15 cents. zy = 
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This new Aster which we offer to the public 
this season, we have a novelty of the high- 
est rank, which will doubtless attain a wide 
popularity, especially as a cut-flower variety 
while it is equally desirable for bedding and 
pots. The Lady in White closely resembles 
the Mignon in form of plant and flower, but is 
entirely distinct in foliage and its unapproached 
freedom of flowering. The flowers of this va- 
riety are borne on very slender stalks and the 
foliage, unlike all other Asters, is long, slender 
and strikingly light-green in color, which gives 
the plant an extremely pe gece appearance 
not found in other classes of Asters. No variety 
before introduced has a more prolonged season 
of blooming than the Lady in White, which 
flowers early and continues, gradually develop- 
ing its flowers, until very late in the autumn. 
Price per package, 25 cents. 
ASTER, DAHLIA 
FLOWERED 
SNOWBALL. 
A very popular white variety of recent introduction, the flowers 
of which closely resemble those of the Liliput Dahlia. Excellent 
for pot culture and a good bedding variety. 
Per package, 15 cents. 
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BEGONIA—VERNON. 
This most remarkable variety, coming absolutely true from 
seed, is of unusual value for bedding, as it will stand our hot 
summer sun. From seeds sown in February it comes into flower 
in June and continues to make a most striking effect in beds or 
borders throughout the entire summer. The flowers are of an 
entensely brilliant deep red color, the foliage is very abundant, stiff, 
and glossy and of a fine green color, spotted and margined with 
bronze purple. 
Price per packet, 15 cents; 2 packets for 25 cents. 
SWEET SCENTED 
TUBEROUS BEGONIA. 
PIONEER. 
This new Sweet Scented Begonia is a cross of the Baumanii 
and giant flowering bulbrous varieties, combining the good 
qualities of each. Plants grown in open ground form nice 
round bushes about four inches high, surmounted by straight 
upright flower stems about eight inches high; while grown 
under giass they grow still higher. The foliage is round in 
shape, thick, waxy and dark green in color. ‘lowers are a 
very rich rose carmine, measuring three to four inches in 
diameter, and exhale the finest perfume, closely resembling the 
tea roses. Price, per package, 20 cents. 
BRAZILIAN MORNING 
GLORY. 
A magnificent- climbing annual that we can highly 
recommend: to all wishing the quickest possible covering for 
piazzas, arbors, trees, fences or other places where a dense 
shade is required. The leaves are from eight to twelve inches 
in diameter, and develop quickly. The flowers are a beautiful 
tose color, borne freely in clusters from July until frost. This 
beautiful climber precuces a most beautiful tropical appear- 
ance, and is highly prized by all who have grown it. Per 
2 
package, 15 cents; 2 for 25 cents. 
