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ELLIS BBOTHEBS’ CATALOGUE. 
COLLECTION BALSAM. 
White, Light Lemon, Flesh Color, Rosy Buff, Pomegranate, Red, Purple, Lilac, 
Violet, Tricolor, Rose Spotted, Pure Scarlet, Striped, Solferino, Atrosanguinea, Blood 
Red, White Tinged Rose. Five seeds each of above sixteen sorts, eighty in all. A 
fine collection. Price 25 ( 5 ts. 
Concord, N. H. — Ellis Bros. Gentlemen: I wish to tell you how much I like your collection of 
Balsams. I have had seeds from Farquhars, Henderson, John Lewis Childs and others, but I never had 
such beautiful Balsams as I raised last year from one of your collection packets. They are simply beauti- 
ful, and were admired by all who saw them. Respectfully, Mrs. VV. J. G. 
COLLECTION ASTER. 
Truffaut's Perfection. Large Flowered, Snow White, Rose, Dark Blood Red, 
Light Blue, Black-Blue, Glowing Dark Crimson, White and Black-Blue, Rose and 
White, Carmine, Carmine and White, Crimson Ball, Dark Crimson and White, Dark 
Red and White, Victoria Red, Lilac Red and White, Violet, Dark Scarlet and White, 
Sky Blue and White, Black-Blue and White, Light Blue and White. The finest col- 
lection of Asters ever offered. Ten seeds each of above twenty varieties, two hundred 
in all. We shall this season include in our collection, a few seeds each. White Comet, 
Pink Comet, Semple’s White and Mary Semple Asters. Price 25 fts. 
Penacook, N. 11 ., March i, 1S97— AV/A Bros. Dear Sirs: I must not fail to speak of the Asters 
which I raised from seeds ordered from you last year. They were the most beautiful Asters I ever saw 
and were areatlv admired bv all. I consider your Asters the finest strain I ever saw without exception. 
Respectfully, MRS. JOHN S. BOUTKI.I.K. 
SOMEKSWOKTII, N. 11 ., May 13, 1S97.— AV/A Bros. Sirs: 1 have sent you one or more orders every 
vear for twelve vears. My garden is just beautiful from sceti ordered from vou. Asters arc my special 
hobby, and such a display as 1 have from your seed. .MRS. E. C. HOLMKS. 
I.ACONIA, N. 11 ., Feb. 14, 1S97.— A//A Bros. The Asters 1 raised from seeds received from you last 
year, were the finest I have ever received. MRS. M.-\RY 1 . HALl.. 
Aver. Mass., Feb. 22, 1S97 Messrs. Ellis Bros. Please find enclosed sixty (60) cents in stamps. 
My Asters last year were the most beautiful ones I ever raised. You will know by my order my friends 
all admired them too. .MRS. -M. J. BROWN. 
Adams, Mass.— AV/A Bros. Gentlemen : The seeds I had of you last year were the best and cheap- 
est collections of seeds 1 ever bought of any firm at any price. 1 have bought a gre.at many collections of 
Asters, but 1 have never h.ad such a large number of plants (over 200), or such a large variety as I had from 
the Racket 1 bought of you. When 1 say this, it me.ans a good deal. Asters are my special hobby. 
‘ 0 2 2 Very truly yours, F. D. BROW.N. 
Andover, N. H., Feb. 26, 1S96.— AV/A Bros. The Asters bought of you were the finest 1 ever raised ; 
took first premium at New Hampshire -State Grange Fair last year and the year before. , 
MRS. WlLl-lAM MORRII- 1 .. 
COLLECTION DIANTHVS. 
Diadem, mottled, extra; Hedeivigi Hybrids, great variety; Atropurfurea, fine 
dark shades; Laciniatns, fringed; striped varieties; Aibus, new, white; 
Mourning Pink, a new sort, very beautiful ; Imperialis, fine double, mixed ; Laciniatns 
Purpurea, a fine variety; Laciniatns Capreo, dwarf, double, beautiful. 
The above ten varieties are the finest of all Dianthus; forty seeds of each, four 
hundred in all, price 25 <fts., or any one of ten varieties in packets of about one hun- 
dred seeds, price 10 dts. 
Concord, April 3, 1806.— A 7 //,r Bros.: The flowers from Collection Dianthus were so lovely that I 
could not spare a flmver. 1 have bought seeds of you for several years, and 1 find that in all varieties you 
have the best. You may use my name if you care to, for “ Honor to whom honor is^ one, and I abvays 
have better success with' your seeds than any others. Cordially yours, .M RS. W. J. M. GATES. 
COLLECTION VERBENAS. 
Mammoth Red, finest large sorts in shades of red ; Defiance, medium size fiorets, 
fiery scarlet; Sea Foam, pure white in fine large trusses; Mammoth Pink, heautiful 
shades of pink, extra large trusses; Coerula, medium size florets in shades of blue; 
Italian Striped and Large'\Eyed s,oc%.f,, mixed, a grand mixture. Twenty-five seeds 
of each of above'six varieties, _one_hundred and fifty' seeds^ia all. Price 25 <Sts. 
