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WM. ELLIOTT & SONS’ RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 
Gourds, Ornamental 
GOURDS, ORNAMENTAL 
Rapid-growing annual climbers, very useful for covering verandas, 
etc. The fruits are curiously shaped, and often very highly colored. 
10 to 20 feet. Pkt 
Hercules’ Club. Club-shaped green fruits. 2 to 4 feet long..$0.05 
Loofa. Sponge or Dish Rag Gourds.05 
Nest-Egg. White, shaped like an egg.05 
Orange. The well-known Mock Orange.05 
Pear-Shaped. Striped fruits, very showy.05 
Powder Horn.- In the form of a powder horn.05 
Siphon, or Dipper. Makes an excellent dipper.05 
Sugar Trough. Large, round fruits.05 
Mixed Ornamental Varieties.Oz. 40c. .05 
GRASSES, ORNAMENTAL 
Ornamental Grasses serve the double purpose of rendering the 
mixed flower bed or border attractive during the Summer, and for 
the use of the spikes or panicles in a dried state in Winter bouquets. 
For large beds or groups on lawns nothing gives a finer effect. 
Agrostis nebulosa. A very graceful and pretty grass, Pkt. 
charming for borders. Annual. lJ/£ feet.S0.05 
Avena sterilis (Animated Oats). Drooping, very graceful. 
Annual. 2 feet.05 
Briza maxima (Quaking Grass). Very pretty. Annual. IA 
feet.05 
Briza gracilis (Small Quaking Grass). Very delicate and 
graceful. Annual. 1 foot.05 
Bromus brizaeformis. An elegant Briza-like grass.05 
Coix lachryma (Job’s Tears). 2 feet.Oz. 25c. .05 
Eragrostis elegans (Love-Grass). Very graceful and beauti¬ 
ful. Annual. 1 foot.05 
Erianthus Ravennse. A stately and picturesque grass, re¬ 
sembling the Pampas with its silvery white plumes. Half- 
hardy perennial. 7 feet.10 
Eulalia Japonica. One of the most beautiful of the tall- 
growing grasses. 5 feet.10 
Gymnotlirix latifolia. Splendid ornamental grass. Half- 
hardy perennial. 10 feet.10 
Gynerium argenteum (Pampas Grass). The finest ornamental 
grass in cultivation. Half-hardy perennial. 10 feet.10 
Lagurus ovatus (Hare’s Tail). Small white plumes. Annual. 
1 foot. 05 
Stipa pennata (Feather Grass). One of the prettiest and most 
interesting. Perennial. 2 feet.10 
Collection of twelve varieties of Ornamental Grasses,/50c. 
GREVILLEA robusta (Silk Oak). A very beautiful and 
graceful decorative plant, with Fern-like foliage; excellent 
for table decoration. 3 to 5 feet.10 
HELICIIRYSUM (Straw Flower). These everlastings are 
greatly admired for their beauty. The flow'ers are large 
and the colors bright. They are highly prized for Winter 
bouquets. Flowers intended for drying should be gathered 
v r hen partially unfolded, and suspended with heads down¬ 
ward in a cool place. Succeed best in rich, loamy soil. 
Double White.Pkt.$0.05 I Yellow.Pkt.S0.05 
Red.Pkt. .05 | Mixed. 1A feet. .Pkt. .05 
IIELIANTHUS. See Sunflower. Pkt. 
HELIOTROPE. Well-known favorites, highly valued for their 
delicious fragrance. Handsome plants when bedded out, 
and also very desirable for house culture, a single plant 
filling a w’hole room with perfume. Seed sow n early in the 
Spring will produce large flowering plants the first Summer. 
Lemoine’s Giant. Immense clusters of flow’ers, double the 
size of older varieties; deliciously fragrant.SO.10 
King of Blacks. Very dark.io 
Finest Mixed.10 
HELIPTERUM Sandfordi. Very desirable dwarf everlasting, 
bearing large clusters of golden yellow flow r ers. 1 foot.10 
IIEUCHERA sanguinea (Scarlet Alum Root). Beautiful, 
hardy perennial. The plants grow' about 2 feet high and 
produce their flowers in long trusses of rich, bright 
crimson. Valuable for cut flowers.10 
HIBISCUS (Marshmallow) 
Showy, ornamental, perennial} plan tslof easy cultivation, having 
large, beautifully colored flowers.f pkt. 
African us. Large, cream-colored flow’ers, with brown center. 
1H feet.$0.05 
Coccineus. Bright scarlet.10 
Californicus. White, with deep carmine center.10 
Crimson Eye. Flowers of purest white, with a velvety 
crimson spot in the center of each flow'er.10 
HONESTY, or SATIN FLOWER (Lunaria Biennis). Early, 
free-flowering plants, interesting for the silver-like tissue 
of the seed pods in their matured state. The flower is 
purple, but not very conspicuous. The seed pods are fine 
for skeletonizing and working in w’ith other everlasting 
flowers for Win ter bouquets.10 
Eulalia Japonica 
