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Choice Flower Seeds 
WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
DELPHINIUM (Perennial Larkspur) 
Showy and well-known hardy perennials that can be grown with ease in any garden, produces 
splendid spikes of flowers throughout the summer. 
Brnnonianuin (Musk-Scented Larkspur). New species of a peculiar shade of light blue, 
emitting a powerful odor of musk. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Cashmerianum. Very fine, dark blue, Monk’s Hood-like flowers. 1% feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Chinensis. Double mixed. 2 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Elliott’s Selected Hybrids. Includes the best of the new single and double varieties, all 
of the large flowering types, varying in color from pearly white to lavender, and from soft azure 
blue to rich indigo. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Formosum. Rich blue and white. A favorite variety. 3 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Le Mastadonte (Giant Bee Larkspur). Large dark blue flowers. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Nudicaule. Scarlet. 1% feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Zalil (Hardy yellow Larkspur). Lovely shade of sulphur-yellow. Pkt. 10 cts. 
For Annual varieties, see Larkspur, page 36. 
EUPHORBIA 
Variegata (Snow-on-the-Mountain). Attractive fobage, beautifully veined and margined 
with white. Pkt. 5cis. 
Heterophy 11a (Annual Poinsettia, Mexican Fire Plant, or Fire-on-the-Mountain). An an¬ 
nual plant of branching habit, with glossy green leaves, which in summer become flared with 
dark iiery scarlet, leaving on.y a small tip of green. Very striking and brilliant. 3 to 4 feet. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy) 
Hardy annuals of easiest cultivation, excellent for borders or in masses. Finely cut foliage. 
Flowers, large and showy, produced freely all summer. 
Golden West. Bright yellow, large flower. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Californica. Bright yellow, rich orange center. 1 foot. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Mandarin. A very beautiful variety. The outside of the petals is brilliant scarlet, inside 
rich orange, Pkt. 5 cts. 
Croeea fl. pi. A double-flowering variety; flowers bright orange-scarlet, shading off to salmon-red. An abundant bloomer. 
Itose Cardinal. A charming sort, producing very freely large flowers of intense carmine. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Eschscholtzia 
ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI (Coral Plant) 
Splendid shrub for greenhouse or sub-tropical g »rdens, bearing large racemes of brilliant scarh t flowers. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
DODECATHEON CLEVELANDI (Giant American Cowslip) 
A be utiful per nnial from California, producing flower stems a foot high, surmounted with about ten large cyclamen-like blossoms, 
purple and yellow. It is quite hardy and luxuriates in a partially shaded situation. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Color rose 
Delphinium (Larkspur) 
DOLICHOS LABLAB (Hyacinth Bean) 
A rapid-growing ornamental climber with dense foliage and clusters of hand¬ 
some purple and white flowers. Purple. Pkt. 5 cts. White. Pkt. 5 cts.. 
Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts. 
DRACAENA 
Ornamental greenhouse plants, with elegant foliage. Invaluable for decorate 
purposes. 
I nd ivisa. Green and bronze, narrow leaves. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Australis. Wide, green foliage. Pkt. 25 cts. 
ECHINOCYSTIS LOBATA (Wild Cucumber) 
One of the quickest growing annual vines in cultivation. Fine for covering fences* 
trellises, etc. Pkt. 5 cts. 
ECHEVERIA 
Interesting greenhouse succulents, which are largely U3ed for carpet bedding. 
Metallica. Large, orange colored blossoms on spikes 12 to 15 in. high. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Secunda glauca. Small, compact-growing, glaucous variety, with free flow¬ 
ering, scarlet and yellow racemes of bloom. Very fine. Pkt. 25 cts. 
ERICA CAPENSIS (Cape Heath) 
Charming evergreen shrubs, flowering very profusely. Finest mixed. Pkt. 15 cts. 
EUPATORIUM FRASERI 
Flowers are snowy-white, borne in clusters ; fine for cutting. Hardy perennial. 
Pkt, 10 cts. 
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS (Australian Blue Gum Tree) 
This half-hardy tree can only be used in our colder States as a pot plant, and as 
such its bluish foliage contrasts beautifully with palms and other plants. Where 
it can he grown as a tree, it has a powerful influence in destroying the malarious 
agency which is supposed to cause fever in marshy districts. Pkt. 10 cts. 
FEVERFEW. See Matricaria and Pyrethrum. 
FERNS 
The seed offered is saved from a large collection of very elegant and interesting 
varieties. Finest indoor varieties. Pkt. 25 cts. Hardy vari- ties. l kt. 15 cts. 
