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WM. ELLiOTT & SONS, SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK 
COSMOS. 
Makes very large plants, growing 5 to 7 feet high, which are 
beautiful masses of the most elegant foliage, until they begin 
to bloom in September, when each plant will have hundreds 
of large, showy blos¬ 
soms. Both foliage 
and flowers are excel¬ 
lent for cutting. Sow 
seed early in spring 
and transplant to the 
garden in June. 
Hybridus. 
Pure White Pkt. 5 
Light Pink .... 5 
Crimson.5 
Mixed.5 
Mammoth Perfection. 
The flowers are 
double the size of C. 
Hybridus, the petals 
are broader, overlap- 
ping and deeply 
ribbed. For cutting, 
it is one of the finest 
flowers grown, lasting 
in water two weeks. 
The plants are 5 to 6 
feet high, pyramidal 
form, and one mass of 
feathery emerald 
green foliage, studded 
with mammoth flowers 
of White, Pink or Crim¬ 
son long after more 
tender flowers are de¬ 
stroyed by frost. Mixed 
colors. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Early Flowering. 
Seed of this variety 
may be sown in the 
open ground in May, 
and will bloom in 
August and continue 
until late in fall; flow¬ 
ers large, well formed 
and its keeping quali- 
tlesareexcellent. Pkt., 
10 cts. 
CYCLAMEN. 
These are among the most beautiful winter and spring blooming I 
plants. The flowers are rich colored and fragrant, bourne I 
well above the highly ornamental foliage. Seed may be I 
sown during autumn or spring, and when two leaves are I 
developed transplant into 2 inch pots, placing near the light, I 
but shaded from the direct rays of the sun. When pots I 
become filled with roots shift to larger sizes as required I 
Succeed best in temperature of 30 to (>0 degrees. 
CYCLAMEN. 
CYCLAMEN. 
Per8icum, Fine Mixed Colors .Pkt. 10 
Giganteum Album. Pure White. 35 
Rubrum. Dark red .36 
Roseum. Bright rose .35 
Duke of Connaught. Crimson. 35 
Picturatum. White, claret base. 35 
Finest Mixed, all colors .25 
Williams’ Superb Strain. In original packages . . 75 
CUPHEA. 
(CIGAR PLANT.) 
A free-flowering, neat, half-hardy perennial, well adapted for 
either the conservatory or flower border. 
Platycentra. Scarlet, black and white, 1 ft.Pkt. 10 
Roezlii. Pyramidal formed; flowers yellow and red ... 10 
CONVOLVULUS. 
A beautiful class of training annuals, some of which produce ' 
flowers of wondrous beauty. Useful for verandas, lattice, 
etc., growing freely in any good garden soil. 
Minor Tricolor. Rich, violet-purple with white center; 
trailer. Hardy annual, 1 ft.Pkt. 6 
Mauritanicus. Hardy trailing plant, about 1 ft. high, 
produces an abundance of rich, satiny, lavender 
blossoms, fine for baskets, etc. ... 10 
Major. (See Morning Glory.) 
CYPERUS. 
(UMBRELLA PLANT.) 
A strikingly handsome foliage plant, equally well adapted for 
the greenhouse or open ground, and easily raised from seed. 
Succeeds best in a moist situation. Half-hardy perennial, 
1 to 2 ft. 
Alternifoliui. ..Pkt. If 
COLEUS. 
One of the most popular foliage plants. It is very decorative 
in the flower border, and easily grown from seed, which 
frequently produces new and distinct varieties. Half-hardy 
perennial. 
Choicest Mixture. Seed saved from new and beautiful 
hybrids..Pkt. 25 
COLLINSIA. 
An exceedingly pretty, free flowering hardy annual, remarkably 
attractive in beds, mixed border, or ribbons. 
Finest Mixed Varieties, l ft.Pkt. 5 
COWSLIP. 
(PRIMULA VERI8.) 
A wett-known, free-flowering, hardy perennial, flowering pro¬ 
fusely during early spring. 
Fine English Mixed, 9 inches.Pkt. 5 
CUCUMIS. 
An ornamental Cucumber, remarkable for the luxuriance and 
rapidity of its growth. Treat the same as the ordinary 
Cucumber, and train against a wall or trellis. 
FlexU 08 U 8 . Snake Cucumber, 3 ft. long.Pkt 10 
