WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK 
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VERBENA. 
The Verbena is de¬ 
servedly a uni¬ 
versal favorite, 
unrivaled in the 
splondor of its 
dazzling bril¬ 
liancy of flower. 
A constant 
bloomer, and if 
grown from seed 
has a sweet fra¬ 
grance. Treat as 
tender annuals. 
Sow in a hot bed 
in M a r c h or 
April, and t iant 
out in May. Seed 
sown in the open 
ground will flow, 
er in August. 
Pure White .*.Pkt. 10 
Scarlet. Extra flue.10 
Citriodora. (Lemon-scented Verbena,).10 
Fine Mixed Varieties. 5 
Elliott’s Mammouth Mixed. Saved from the choicest vari¬ 
eties of large flowering Verbenas. Free blooming, 
vigorous growth, and contains all the new colors and 
shades.10 
VINCA. 
These beautiful greenhouse perennials maybe treated as tender 
annuals for the garden. If sown under glass, and strong 
plants are set out early in a warm situation, they will flower 
in the summer and autumn, and may be potted for the house 
before frost. 
Rosea. Rose, 2 ft. .10 
Rosea Alba. White, red eye.10 
Alba Pura. Pure white.10 
VALERIAN. 
Showy plants for mixed borders or shrubberies, bearing large 
corymbs of bright flowers; bears shade and moisture well; 
hardy perennial. 
Mixed, All Colors .Pkt. 5 
VIOLA. (VIOLET.) 
Deservedly much in demand on account of their profusion of 
bloom, which lasts from early spring throughout the sum¬ 
mer months, forming very effective beds, either by them¬ 
selves or mixed with other plants. Sow in cool pit or warm 
border. 
Odorata. Sweet-scented Violet, blue.Pkt. 10 
Cornuta. Mauve colored. 10 
Alba. Snow white.10 
Lutea Spl ndens. Yellow.10 
Finest Mixed.10 
WAITZIA. 
Beautiful everlastings, hearing their flowers in clusters and 
growing freely in any good, light soil. For winter bouquets, 
cut the flowers before they are fully expanded. Half-hardy 
annuals. 
Mixed Varieties ...Pkt. 10 
WHITLAVIA. 
A beautiful free-flowering plant, with rich bell-shaped blos¬ 
soms. Hardy annual. 
Grandiflora. Fine violet blue, 1 ft. 5 
Gloxinioides. Pure white, with blue lip.10 
WALLFLOWER. 
Well-known deliciously fragrant plants, with large spikes of 
double flowers similar to the Gilliflower. Succeed in light, 
rich soil, in a moist atmosphere. Perennials. 
Double Branching. Finest mixed. 10 
Collection of six separate colors.50 
Single. Fine mixed. 5 
Single Annual Wallflower. Seedlings from this variety 
flower through the summer and fall, from seed sown 
the same spring. . . ..10 
WIGANDIA. 
Magnificent ornamental foliaged plants, with immense richly 
veined leaves, the stems covered with crimson hairs. Of 
rapid growth and splendid habit, it forms one of finest ob¬ 
jects amongst ornamental foliaged plants. 
Caracasana. Blue flower, 7 ft.10 
Vigieri. Supberb, glaucous foliage, 8 ft.10 
Imperialis. A superb, new variety, with much larger 
and firmer leaves.10 
XERANTIIEMUM. 
Exceedingly free blooming everlastings. The flowers, when 
gathered young, are useful for winter bouquets; they are 
among the most easily cultivated of annuals, requiring only 
to be sown about May, in the open border, and thinned out 
for flowering. Hardy annuals. 
Double. Mixed colors, 2 ft •.Pkt r> 
