ELLIS BROTHERS* CATALOGUE. 
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Jessamine GrandiOorum (Catalonian Jessamine). A valuable winter flowering plant, blooming 
without intermission from October to May. The flowers are pure white, most deliciously fragrant; used 
extensively by all bouquet makers. Price 20 ( 5 ts. 
Ivy German (or Parlor). A well known rapid climber; for pot culture or vases. Price lO < 5 ts. 
Cobea Scandens. A well known climbing plant of very rapid growth and having large blue bell- 
shaped flowers. Used for covering trellises and unsightly places, for which iU rapid growth makes it 
very valuable. Price 15 to 30 < 5 ts. 
Manettia Vine, In the house it can be trained all around a window, and will bloom both summer 
and winter. In the garden its charming beauty surpasses everything. Flowers intense scarlet, tipped 
with yellow, each flower keeping perfect over a month before fading. It can be trained on a trellis, strings, 
or used for drooping from hanging baskets ; in any way a perfect mass of flowers and foliage from the root 
to the tips of the branches. 
Price 10 As. 
FARFUCIUM. 
Grande, A low growing foliage plant, remarkable for its shiny dark green foliage, which is irreg. 
ularly blotched with bright yellow, and sometimes with white and rose. Easily grown, and a native of 
China; not a new plant, but not as well known 
as it should be, as it is a splendid window plant. 
Give plenty of water when in growing condi- 
tion. (See cut.) 
Price 25 As.; large specimens, 75 As. 
FREESIA. 
Kefracia Alha. Too much cannot be 
said of this beautiful bulb for forcing. Pure 
white, tube-shaped flowers, having a most de- 
licious perfume. A beautiful house plant, and 
grows easily in any good, rich, sandy soil. 
Flowers will keep two weeks after opening. 
One of the few Christmas flowers, and as soon 
as better known will be one of the most popular 
holiday decorations; also, it will be grown in 
large quantities by florists for cut flowers. 
Bulbs should be treated the same as winter- 
flowering Oxalis, i. e., kept in dry earth or sand 
until August, then potted off, three to six bulbs 
in a six-inch pot; these will bloom in December or January. Later potted, will, of course, bloom later. 
I-ike Oxalis, the bulbs increase rapidly. Price, extra selected bulbs, 5 dls., 6 for 25 ifts. ; fine large bulbs, 
12 for 20 dls. ; small bulbs, to dts. per doz. 
GLADIOLUS. 
The Gladiolus is the most beautiful of the summer bulbs, with tall spikes of flowers, some two feet or 
more in height, often several from the same bulb. The flowers are almost every desirable color. As cut 
flowers, they are the most lasting of anything we know. By cutting 
the spikes when two or three of the lower flowers arc open, and placing 
them in water, the entire spike will open in the most beautiful manner. 
Set the bulbs from six to nine inches apart, about three inches deep. In 
the fall, before hard frost, take up the bulbs, remove the tops, leave to 
dry in the air a few days, and store in some cool place, secure iroin the 
frost until spring. Our mixed varieties are unusually fine. 
hetnoine’s Hybrid, For vivid and rich orchid-like coloring, 
this beautiful, half-hardy class of Gladiolus has no equal. Our bulbs 
were raised from selected seed, saved from the finest named varieties, 
selected for their distinct and brilliant colored flowers. Many of these 
are equal to the finest named sorts. (See cut.) Price, e.xtra fine mixed, 
5 (Its., 50 ills, per doz. 
Hesperide. Profusely blotched, and flaked bright rosy salmon 
on a pure white ground; a finely colored sort. Price 15 dls. 
John Bull. Ivory-white, tinted with yellow and lilac. The 
strongest growing of the light varieties. Price 10 dls. 
Be Pouissin. Light red, with large white throat; a beautiful 
variety. 
