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WM. ELLiOTT & SONS, SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK. 



COSMOS. 



Makes very large plants, growing 5 to 7 feet high, ■which are 

 beautiful masses of the most elegant foliage, until they begin 

 to bloom in September, when each plant will have hundreds 



of large, showy blos- 

 ' soms. Both foliage 



;i<^^^%i^j|^^HR ,^^^te_ ^iid flowers are excel- 



lent for cutting. Sow 

 seed early in spring 

 and transplant to the 

 garden in June. 



Hybridus. 



Pure White Plit. 5 

 Light Pinli .... 5 



Crimson 5 



Mixed 5 



Mammoth Perfection. 

 The flowers are 

 double the size of C. 

 Hybridus, the petals 

 are broader, overlap- 

 ping and deeply 

 ribbed. For cutting, 

 it is one of the finest 

 flowers grown, lasting 

 in water two weeks. 

 The plants are 5 to 6 

 feet high, pyramidal 

 form, and one mass of 

 feathery emerald 

 green foliage, studded 

 with mammoth flowers 

 of White, Pink or Crim- 

 son long after more 

 tender flowers are de- 

 stroyed by frost. Mixed 

 colors. Pkt. , 10 cts. 

 Early Flowering. 

 Seed of this variety 

 may be sown in the 

 open ground in May, 

 and will bloom in 

 August and continue 

 until late in fall ; flow- 

 ers large, well formed 

 and its keeping quali- 

 ties are excel lent. Pkt., 

 10 cts. 

 COLEUS. 

 One of the rriost popular foliage plants. It is very decorative 



in the flower border, and easily grown from seed, which 



frequently produces new and distinct varieties. Half-hardy 



perennial. 



Choicest Mixture. Seed saved from new and beautiful 

 hybrids.. Pkt. 25 



COLIilNSIA. 



An exceedingly pretty, free flowering hardy annual, remarkably 

 attractive in beds, mixed border, or ribbons. 

 Finest Mixed Varieties, i ft Pkt. 5 



COWSLIP. 



(PKIMDIiA VEEIS.) 



A welt-known, free-flowering, hardy perennial, flowering pro- 

 fusely during early spring. 

 Fine English Mixed, 9 inches Pkt. 5 



CUCUMIS. 



An ornamental Cucumber, remarkable for the luxuriance and 

 rapidity of its growth. Treat the same as the ordinary 

 Cucumber, and train against a wall or trellis. 



Flexuosus. Snake Cucumber, 3 ft. long . PS-t 10 



CYCLAMEN. . 



These are among the most beautiful winter and spring blooming 

 plants. The flowers are ricti colored and fragrant, bourne 

 well above the highly ornamental foliage. Seed may be 

 sown during autumn or spring, and when two leaves are 

 developed transplant into 2 inch pots, placing near the light, 

 but shaded from the direct rays of the sun. When pots 

 become filled with roots shift to larger sizes as r( quired 

 Succeed best in temperature of 50 to GO dogiees. 



CYCLAMEX. 



Persicum, Fine Mixed Colors '. . Pkt. 10 



Giganteum Album. Pure White 35 



Rubrum. Dark red 35 



Roseum. Bright rose . 35 



Duke of Connaught. Crimson 35 



Picturatum. White, claret base 35 



Finest Mixed, all colors 25 



Williams' Superb Strain. In original packages . . 75 



CUPHEA. 



(CIGAR PLANT.) 



A free-flowering, neat, half-hardy perennial, well adapted for 

 either the conservatory or flower border. 



Platycentra. Scarlet, black and white, 1 ft Pkt. 10 



Roezlii. Pyramidal formed; flowers yellow and red ... 10 



CONVOLVULUS. 



A beautiful class of training annuals, some of which produce 

 flowers of wondrous beauty. Useful for verandas, lattice, 

 etc., growing freely in any good garden soil. 

 Minor Tricolor. Eich, violet-purple with white center; 



trailer. Hardy annual, 1 ft Pkt. 5 



Mauritanicus. Hardy trailing plant, about 1 ft. high, 

 produces an abundance of rich, satiny, lavender 



blossoms, fine for baskets, etc . ; . 10 



Major. (See Morning Glory.) 



CYPERUS. 



(UMBE^ILLA PLANT.) 



A strikingly handsome foliage plant, equally well adapted for 

 th« greenhouse or open ground, and easily raised from seed. 

 Succeeds best in a moist situation. Half-hardy perennial, 

 1 to 2 ft. 

 Alternifblius. ................ t'ki. l! 



