WILLIAM ELLIOTT & SONS’ 
Sixty-Seventh Annual Catalogue 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1912 
Antirrhinum Majus “ Ruby ” 
A strikingly beautiful new variety and main color of the very popular 
Tall Snapdragon. The flowers are self-colored, bright ruby red, and of 
surprising effect. This novelty is at the same time a charming plant for 
tall beds and groups, and highly valuable as a cut flower. Pkt. 15c. 
Artemisia Saccorum Viridis 
New annual species introduced from China. Of extremely vigorous 
growth, this new plant forms elegant and very regularly branched 
pyramids of 3F6 to 5 feet in height, resembling in aspect a small Fir- 
tree. The color of the fine foliage is a rich dark green; flowers incon¬ 
spicuous. To be recommended as single specimens on lawns or for 
groups of foliage plants. Pkt. 25c. 
Aster-Vick’s White King 
The flowers are large, full centered, and pure white, and of the up¬ 
right class. Stems are long, and very free from side shoots. In the field 
this Summer there were any number of plants front which one could 
have cut six to twelve marketable flowers with stems 14 to 20 inches 
long. Pkt. 25c. 
Vick’s Enchantress Pink 
Delphinium Belladonna 
Everblooming Hardy Larkspur 
The freest and most continuous blooming Hardy Farkspur, never 
being out of flower from the end of June until cut down by severe frost. 
The clear turquoise blue of its flowers is not equaled for delicacy and 
beauty by any other flower. Seed sown early the coming Spring will 
produce plants that will bloom freely through the late Summer and 
Autumn. Pkt. 15c. 
Freesia Hybrida Ragionieri 
The beautiful, scented flowers are tinted in the most various shades 
of pink, rose, purple, blue, violet, orange, sulphur yellow, brown, often 
delicately spotted and veined. As cut flowers they!retain their freshness 
in water a long time. Of the same easy culture as the old white Freesias, 
the plants are of strong growth and well adapted for forcing. Seedlings 
will show bloom G to 7 months after sowing. Pkt. 25c. 
Gerbera Jamesonii Hybrida 
One of the most interesting introductions of recent years. These 
distinct and beautiful hybrids embrace the most exquisite and delicate 
shades of yellow, rose, cherry-red, salmon, terra cotta, to crimson and 
white. This grand race of plants is of easy cultivation and can be grown 
in any garden in a sheltered position or on a warm border where protec¬ 
tion can be given during severe weather. Excellent for cutting, table 
decoration, or as pot plants. Pkt. 30c. 
Its vigorous, upright habit of growth, the profusion of good, strong, flowering stems, 
together with the size and loose, graceful effect of the branching type of flower, make 
this variety a very desirable acquisition. The beautiful, large double flowers have the 
delicate shade of the Pink Enchantress Carnation. Unlike many other pink Asters, this 
variety holds its soft delicate color for a long time without fading. The broad flat petals 
give a soft effect which is extremely pleasing. Pkt. 25c. 
Celosia 
Pride of Castle Gould 
This Ostrich Plume Celosia is an entirely distinct type of Celosia pyramidalis plumosa 
and surpasses by far anything yet placed on the market for bedding or as a pot plant for 
decorative purposes. The colors range from blood red, carmine, golden yellow, salmon, 
deep scarlet, orange, and wine red. Mixed colors. Pkt. 40c. 
Clarkia Elegans fl. pi. 
Scarlet Queen 
This novelty is doubtless the most brilliantly colored variety of the tall growing 
Clarkia. The flowers are extreme.y double and present when opening a glowing sal- 
mony-orange, which changes, when in full bloom, to an intense salmony-orange-scarlet. 
Very distinct and remarkably pretty variety, which will prove to be of great value for 
cutting purposes or for pot culture. Pkt. 20c. 
Cosmea Hybrida Crimson Ray 
Distinct new type of Cosmos growing from 4 to 5 feet in height, very profuse in bloom. 
The flowers are many-petaled and the petals narrow and fluted, separated in star-like 
form and of the most brilliant crimson color. Pkt. 25c. 
Dimorphotheca Aurantiaca 
A rare and extremely showy annual from South Africa. The plants, of very neat 
branching habit, grow about 12 to 15 inches high and are exceedingly profuse in flow¬ 
ering. Its Marguerite-like blossoms, 2 % to 2 % inches in diameter, show a unique 
glossy rich orange-gold, which brilliant coloring is rendered the more conspicuous by the 
dark colored disc surrounded by a black zone. A bed in full bloom is a magnificent 
sight on bright days. Pkt. 15c. 
Celosia, Pride of Castle Gould 
