Vi. 
ELLIOTT’S BLENDED 
PANSY. 
In introducing this special Pansy mixture, we have in view 
particularly the demands of our extensive florists’ trade who 
require the greatest variety in colors as well as flowers of the 
largest size. To fully satisfy their customers they have found it 
necessary to purchase nearly all of the different mixtures of this 
flower offered in seed catalogues as well as a number of kinds in 
separate colors. It was generally admitted to be almost impos- 
sible to secure all shades and colors in proper proportion in most 
Pansy mixtures as ordinarily sold. For this reason, with a view 
to supplying such a mixture, we were induced to prepare our 
‘“Blended”’ strain, and our increasing demand since introduced, 
both from florists and amateurs, has proven the need of such a 
special mixture, and the value of it as put up by us. We posi- 
tively claim ‘‘Elliott’s Blended’’ to be not only the best but 
most admired. It contains the choicest strains of Pansies grown 
in this country andin Europe. All the newest shades and richest 
colors are included, and for beauty and variety of color, size of 
flowers and perfection 
of form it is unsur- 
passed. 
Price per packet, 25 
cents. 
Elliott’s 
Mammoth 
Mignon- 
ette. 
The exquisite fra- 
rance of this modest 
ower has secured it a 
place in the heart of 
every lover of flowers. 
’ This strain which we 
offer is without doubt 
the largest flowered 
form that has yet been 
seen, and the finest Mig- 
nonette in cultivation. 
No garden is complete 
without it. Price, 10 
cents per packet. 
MAMMOTH MIGNONETTE. 
RICINUS 
ZANZIBARIENSIS. 
This variety of Castor Oil Bean or Palma 
Christi which we received from East Africa 
represent an entirely new and distinct class. 
The cultivation of these plants the past very 
unfavorable season has met with a very un- 
expected success. The plants attained great 
dimensions, presenting a splendid aspect with 
their gigantic leaves, which surpassed in size 
and beauty all the varieties known. We do not 
doubt but that as soon as these new Ricinus 
are introducted in our gardens, the older vari- 
eties will disappear altogether. The variety 
named above produces light green leaves of 
2to2% feet across, with whitish ribs, and may 
in its general appearance be compared to a lux- 
uriant growing giant Aralia Sieboldi. Stem, 
branches and fruit are also of a light green 
color. Ornamental foliaged plants of great 
effect for large groups or single specimens. 
Price per packet,-10 cents. 
** HARLEQUIN” 
SWEET WILLIAM. 
This remarkable and exquisitely beautiful 
new Sweet William is without exception the 
finest variety yet introduced as was to all who 
saw the ‘‘New Harlequin’’ in full wealth of 
blcom the past summer. As a mass they are 
extremely effective and the plants individually 
are especially attractive, bearing numerous 
large heads of flowers, from four to five inches 
across, each head being composed of different 
colored florets, such as dark crimson, white, 
pink, flesh striped, etc., etc.; these colors, bank- 
ing against each other in charming profusion, 
produce a very bizarre effect and bring out 
a richness and vividness of coloring by the 
sharp contrast that we have never before seen 
equalled. Price per packet, 15 cents. 
ELLIOTT’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1895. 
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PYRETHRUM 
PARTHENIFOLIUM : 
~ AUREUM CRISPUM. 
The leaves are of a bright golden yellow color and similar in 
form to the well-known Golden Feather, but distinguished from it, 
being beautifully curled and crisped, resembling in form curled 
parsley. The plants are of strong, but dwarf, compact and neat 
habit. It cannot fail to speedily find its way into every garden. 
Price per packet, 15 cents. 
NEW STRAIN oF PETUNIAS 
“GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA.”’ 
The grand improvements in Petunias for the past few years 
left the impression that the acme of perfection Hadsbeen reached, 
but such was not the case. Our grower, a specialist in California, 
after crossing, hybridizing and selecting for several years, start- 
ing from the finest sorts then obtainable in Europe and America, 
aided by congenial culture and climate, has produced a strain of 
incomparable beauty, size and luxuriance, and remarkable in many 
respects. They are very deep throated. Most of the flowers are 
exquisitely ruffled or fringed on the edges, and are of enormous 
dimensions, often 5 inches across, but their great merits lie in the 
innumerable varieties of colors, many of them intense; with 
markings, veinings, blotchings and stripings, in the most gro- 
tesque and beautiful combinations—some with charming deep 
throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, running off into 
intricate veins, or exquisitely pencilled combinations quite new 
in Petunias. Some of the colors are rich and gorgeous, and others 
of lovely delicate shades; the flowers are moreover of great 
substance. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
‘«« SNOWSTORM.”’ 
Extra large flowers, 4 to 5 inches in diameter, of splendid sub- 
stance; purest glistening white, with ruffled or fringed edges; 
deep yellow throat. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
‘“*AURORA.”’ 
The handsomest of all Petunias, a particularly lovely shade 
of rosy pink, witha distinct red band around the deep, exquisitely 
encilled whzfe throat; the flowers are of immense size and per- 
ect shape. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
‘¢ MIDNIGHT.”’’ 
The coloring of this variety is rich beyond description; dark 
claret crimson, with a surface bloom like that of a purple plum, 
In the sunlight it looks like crumpled velvet. The flowers are of 
immense size—4 to 5 inches across, with fringed edges and deep 
intricately veined throats. 
Price per packet, 25 cents. 
