ELLIS BBOTHEBS* CATALOdUE. 
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Other standard 6ower seeds so well known that description is unnecessary : 
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Acacia, finest mixed, 
AcrOLINeum, everlasting, mixed, 
Ageratum, Dwarf White, 
Dwarf Purple, 
Amaranthus, Tricolor (Joseph’s Coat), 
Anterriunum (Snap Dragon), mixed. 
Bachelors* Button, fine mixed, 
Baloon Vine (Cardiosperum), 
Balsam, Allen’s new double white, extra. 
Finest mixed, 
Good mixed, 
Calliopsis, mixed, 
Canna (Indian Shot), mixed, very fine. 
New French Varieties, mixed, extra, 
Centranthus, mixed, 
Centaurea, white leaved foliage plant, 
Clarkia, finest mixed, 
Cockscomb, mixed; very fine, 
Cockscomb Glasgow Prize, new; very dwarf, 
with immense crimson combs, extra. 
Convolvulus (Morning Glory), mixed, 
Minor, the dwarf or trailing variety, 
Cypress Vine, scarlet, 
White, 
Mixed, 
Canterbury Bells, mixed, 
Canary Bird Flower, climber, 
Chinese Pink, finest mixed. 
Datura Wrigiitii, the best, 
Dianthus, Heddewigii, finest mixed. 
Digitalis (Foxglove), mixed, 
Esciischoltzia (California Poppy), fine 
mixed colors, 
Forget-me-not, White, 
Blue, 
Mixed, 
Feverfew, Double White, 
Golden Feather, 
Gilia, mixed, 
Globe Amaranth, mixed, 
Geraniums, finest mixed, 
Helichrysum (Everlasting Flowers), finest, 
mixed, 
Heliotrope, fine mixed. 
Ice Plant, $ 
I-ARKSPUR, Dwarf Rocket, 5 
Tall Stock, flowered, 5 
Linum, (Grandiflorum Kubrum), mixed, 5 
Eupinus, mixed varieties, S 
Lobelia, finest mixed, 10 
Speciosa, Dark Blue, 10 
Lantana, finest mixed, 10 
Marigold, best French, tall, S 
Marvel of Peru, mixed, 5 
Maurandia, finest mixed colors, 10 
Musk Plant, 10 
Nasturtium, tall, mixed, 5 
Dwarf, mixed, 5 
Pansy, mixed seeds of all sorts, 5 
Petunia, fine mixed, 5 
PoRTULACCA, mixed single, 5 
Finest double, mixed, 10 
Rodanthe, 10 
Ricinus, Castor Oil Bean, mixed, 5 
Bourbenensis, twelve feet, extra, 10 
Gibsonii, Dark Red Foliage, 10 
Salipglossis, large flowered varieties ; 
splendid, all colors mixed, 5 
SCABioSA (Morning Bride), mixed, 5 
Sensitive' Plant, 5 
Sweet William, fine mixed, 5 
Extra strain of double sort, mixed, 10 
Smilax, finest climber, 10 
Thunbergia, mixed, 10 
Verbena, mixed, fine, 10 
Vinca, mixed, 5 
Violet (English), best varieties, mixed; 
seed germinates very slowly, 5 
ORNA^fBNTAh GRASSES. 
Agrostis Nebulosa, hardy annual, one foot, 5 
Briza Maxima (Large Quaking Grass), 5 
Buiza Gracilis (Slender (^laking Grass), 5 
Bromus Briz^formis; a fine grass, 5 
Chloris Barbata; pretty and curious, 5 
Goix Lachrymas (Job’s Tears), 5 
Stipa Pennata (Feather Grass); hardy, 5 
Gynerum Argenteum (Pampas Grass), 5 
Nebraska City, Neb.— Bros. Please send catalogue of Begonias. Nowhere else in the U. S. 
can I get such Begonias at the price as you send out. M. ELLA SKINNER. 
West Rutland, Ellis Bros. Gentlemen: Many thanks for the prompt and very satisfactory 
manner in which you filled my small order for plants, which arrived last night in nice condition. 
Very truly yours, L. T. HOLT. 
Haverhill. — Ellis Bros. Dear Sirs: Plants and seeds came by this morning’s mail. They have 
always been fine in the past, but I think this year the plants were larger and finer and so thrifty and vigor- 
ous. Many thanks. Yours truly, E. E. MORRISON. 
Annapolis, Md. — Ellis Bros. Gentlemen : I wish to thank you for the satisfactory way in which 
you filled my order of recent date; although the box had a long distance to come, the plants arrived in 
good order and seem to have started off very nicely. Very truly, J. WIRT RANDAI^L. 
Weymouth, Mass., March 28, i8qS. — Messrs. Ellis Bros. .My Dear Sirs : The plants ordered of you 
arrived here Saturday night and I will say that having bought flowers from many different dealers, 1 never 
had any better looking (h as good) plants from any of them, and later on shall surely send to you another 
order. Yours, etc., C. R. IIOLT. 
WiNTHROP Heights, D. C. — Messrs. Ellis Bros. Dear Sirs: Many thanks for catalogue. It is to 
me the most attractive and refined which I receive. I have been unable the last two seasons to raise my 
Primulas, but those bought have not been nearly as fine as those from Ellis’s seeds. 
Respectfully yours, .MISS MARY’ AUGUSTA JOHNSON. 
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