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ELLIS BB0THEB8' CATALOGUE. 
ALYSSUM. 
Mammotb. The finest of all large growing Alyssums. Small plants, planted in open ground will 
make immense clumps, for summer cut flowers. Also grand as a pot or vase plant; flowers white, semi, 
double, of twice the size in truss and floret of any sort we have ever seen. Us long, strong stems makes 
it very fine for cut flowers. First-class for summer or winter use. Price lo dts.; 4 for 25 < 5 ts. 
Double Tom Thumb. This variety has the same dwarf habit as the single, but its trusses are 
much longer and the florets double. The double flowers hold on so long that the plant is always in bloom, 
never having that ragged and unattractive appearance of old varieties when out of flower. Price 10 dls.; 
4 for 25 < 5 ts. Either sort, 60 < 5 ts. per doz. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Azalea. Elegant pot plants, much used for Easter decorations. Though attaining a good size, com- 
mence to bloom when very small. The flowers are large and very beautiful, always much admired, and 
range from white to deep crimson in color, with all intermediate shades and markings. Easily grown in 
any window. Our plants are fine ones; all in 5.6 and 7-inch pots, well branched and full of buds; will 
bloom profusely through the spring months. Price 60 dts. lo $1.00; extra sizes, $1.25 to $1.50. 
Ardisia, Crenulata. A very ornamental greenhouse plant, dark evergreen foliage producing bril- 
liant red berries; a first-class house plant. Price, quite small, 10 < 5 ts. ; strong plants, 40 < 5 ts. 
Agave, Marginata. Beautifully variegated green, yellow and white. 
Price 25 < 5 ts., 50 ( 5 ls., $1.50 to $2.50 each. 
AgavOy Americana (Century Plant). Dark green; strong grower. 
Price, small, 25 ( 5 ts.; large specimens, $1.00 to $3.00. 
Agapantbus UmbellatuSy Lily of the Nile. This is a splendid ornamcnUl plant, bearing large 
clusters of blue flowers on long flower stalks, and lasting a long time in bloom. There is no finer plant 
than this for out-door decoration, planted in large pots or tubs on the lawn, terrace or piazza. It docs well 
in the house or greenhouse in winter, requiring but slight protection. Price 25 and 40 As. 
Amaryllis^ Belladonna. A noble flower from the Cape of Good Hope; perfectly hardy south of 
Washington, and even further north it planted a foot deep and covered. The flowers appear in the fall, 
and are of the most beautiful satiny rose imaginable, and of exquisite fragrance. They are produced in 
umbels of six to twelve flowers in a cluster. Price, extra strong bulbs, 50 As.; small, 20 As. 
Aloysia Oitriodora, Lemon Verbena. Indispensable for fragrance of its leaves. Price xo As. 
Bouvardia, Davidsonii. White; often delicately tinted pink, profuse bloomer. Price 15 As. 
Bouvardia, Aljred Neuner. The flowers are rather larger than those of the single flowering, and 
composed of three perfect rows of petals of the purest waxy white color, each floret resembling a miniature 
Tuberose. Price 15 As. 
Calla, Ethiopica. The well known house plant. This Calla is the true large flowering sort; the 
grandest of all. Price, small, 10 As.; larger, 25 As., 50 As. 
Calla, Little Gem. Grows from eight to fifteen inches high. A miniature Calla, with flowers from 
one-half to two-thirds the size of the old variety. It commences flowering when quite small. We had 
hoped great things for this sort, but find upon equal trial that it is in no way superior to the larger sort. 
Price 10 As.; larger, 25 As. 
Centaurea, Gymnocarpa. Attains a diameter of two feet, forming a graceful rounded bush of 
silver gray. Price 10 As. 
Coleus. In twelve fine varieties. Price 10 As.; $j.ooperdoz. 
Cactus, Nameless (or Dr. I^egal). Night-blooming, and without doubt tlxe finest of the family. 
Flowers very large, sometimes measuring twenty inches in diameter; of the purest white. Originated in 
St. Petersburg. A handsome slender stemmed species, which ought to be grown much more generally 
than it is at present, for it is one of the finest of the night-flowering Cacti. The flowers are twelve to 
twenty inches in diameter, with creamery white lanceolate petals, with an outer fringe of narrow yellow 
sepals. The surface of the stem being covered with irregular tubercules, not distinctly ridged as in most 
other species. Price 20 As. 
Cactus, Epiphyllum (or Ix>bster Cactus). A wonderfully free-bloomer, frequently blooming three 
or four times during the year. Of drooping habit. Flowers bright pink. Price, small plants, 15 As. 
Cactus. Cereus Grandifora (Night-blooming Cereus). Flowers enormously large, and of rarest 
beauty. Pure white, and opening only at night. ' Price 20 As. 
Cyclamen, Persicum. The Cyclamen is particularly adapted lo window culture; it blooms abun- 
dantly and for a long time in the winter and spring. The flowers are borne on long stems above the foliage 
and are very showy. See colored plate, last page of cover. Price, strong plants, 15 As. 
Cyclamen, Persicum Giganteum. Flowers of very large size; an improvement on older sort. An 
extra fine strain; Uvo colors, red and white; fine plants. Price, each, 30 As. 
CypetUS Alternitolius, Umbrella Plant. An ornamental grass, throwing up stems about two 
