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WM. ELLIOTT & SONS* GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1897. 
VARIOUS ASTERS— Continued. 
Per Pkt. 
Lilliput. Pure white. Small flowers in great abundance, 
excellent for cutting. 15 
Giant Emperor. Flowers of great size, very double, fine 
form, brilliant colors, robust growth. 
Mixed Colors.10 
Dahlia Flowered Snowball. (White Princess.) A very 
popular white variety of recent introduction, the flowers 
of which closely resemble those of the Liliput Dahlia. 
Excellent for pot culture and a good bedding variety. .15 
Triumph. The most beautiful and perfect of all Dwarf 
Asters. 
Scarlet. 10 Scarlet Edged White.10 
White Branching. This Aster is a strong grower of branch¬ 
ing habit and continues to bloom later in the season 
than any other variety. Flowers white, large, loose 
and graceful, resembling Chrysanthemums . 10 
- Cocardeau or Crown. Finest mixed. Center of flowers 
white, with brilliant colors outside. (Cut 2.).10 
- Betteridffe’s Quilled. Finest mixed. Perfectly double 
quilled flowers, 1)£ feet. 5 
- Boltze’s Dwarf Bouquet. Finest mixed Very pro¬ 
fuse in bloom, % ft.. 
- German and French. Finest double mixed from the 
best imported varieties. Per oz , $1.00.10 
- China. Fine mixed. Per oz., 75 cts. 5 
COLLECTIONS OF GERMAN ASTERS. 
(AS IMPORTED.) 
Victoria, in twelve separate colors.85 
Truffaut’s Pseony Perfection, twelve separate colors.75 
Comet, eight separate colors. 60 
Washington, six separate colors .50 
Betteridge’s Quilled, twelve separate colors.50 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum-Flowered,twelve separate colors. .75 
Cocardeau or Crown, six separate colors.40 
ASPERULA. 
A profuse blooming hardy plant, well adapted for shaded 
situations among trees, bearing clusters of fragrant 
flowers. Admirable for bouquets. 
Asperula Azurea Setosa. Light blue. Annual, 1 ft.5 
- Odorata. (Woodruff.) White, very fragrant. Peren¬ 
nial, 1 ft.25 
AURICULA. 
Charming spring out-door and pot plants, succeeding best 
in partial shade. Half-hardy perennial, ft. 
Auricula. (Primula Auricula.) Finest mixed.25 
AZALEA. 
Evergreen shrubs, universally admired for their beautiful 
flowers, which are produced in great profusion. 
Azalea Indica. Finest mixed. Greenhouse evergreen 
shrubs; flowers very beautiful.25 
BALLOON VINE. 
(CARDIOSPERMUM.) 
A very pretty and rapid growing climber, succeeding best 
in a warm situation. It produces a very curious in¬ 
flated capsule, from which it derives the name of Bal¬ 
loon Vine. 
Cardiospermum Halicacabum. White, 6 ft. 5 
BALSAM. 
(LADY’S SLIPPER.) 
Very showy and attractive, producing, in profusion, masses 
of most beautiful and brilliant colored flowers. They 
require an exceedingly rich soil to be grown to per¬ 
fection. 
Balsam, Double. Splendid mixture of choicest varieties. 
Per oz., $1.50.io 
- Fine mixed. Per oz., 50 cts. 5 
- - Pure White. Well adapted for florists, for 
bouquets; nearly every flower is perfectly double, 
and pure white. 10 
- Elliot’s Double White Perfection. A special strain 
of perfectly double, round, large blossoms of great 
solidity . 25 
- Double Dark Bed. A very double dark red variety, 
highly recommended. 10 
- Solferino. Satiny white, streaked and spotted 
with crimson and lilac.10 
- Collection of twelve separate colors.1.00 
- Collection of six separate colors.50 
BARTONIA. 
A showy flowering plant, producing a profusion of fine, 
bright metallic-yellow blossoms, about two and a half 
inches across The leaves are tliistle-like, and dark 
green, covered with down. Annual. 1 ft. 
Bartonia Aurea. Golden yellow. 
BIDENS. 
A beautiful composite, producing rich purple-black flowers 
in great profusion. 
Bidcns Atrosanguinea. Purple-black, 2 ft.10 
BRACHYCOME. 
(SWAN RIVER DAISY.) 
Very pretty low growing plants, fine for borders, rustic 
work or pot culture, covered during summer with a 
profusion of Cineraria-like flowers. Half-hardy annual. 
Brachycome Iberidifolia. (Swan River Daisy.) Mixed 
blue and white, ^ ft .10 
