Choice Flower Seeds 
WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
Corn Flower 
CANDYTUFT (Iberis) 
The Candytufts are among our best white flowers for edgings, for bedding or massing, for 
rockeries and for cutting. Several of the varieties are fragrant, and all are profuse in bloom. 
Sow outdoors in April, where they are to bloom, and thin well when the plants grow about an 
inch. Sow again in a month, and late in July 
Empress. Distinct candelabra-shaped 
branches, bearing immense pyramids of pure 
white bloom. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Nt*\v Carmine. Distinct and beautiful. 
Pkt. 5 cts. 
Improved. White Rocket. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. 30 cts. 
Crimson. Very beautiful. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 
30 cts. 
Purple. Fine dark. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 30 
cts. 
for fall flowers. Give rich soil and water freely. 
Fragrant. White. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 30 cts. 
Fine Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 
New Hybrid Dwarf. Fine mixed. Pkt. 
10 cts. 
Tom Thumb. White; forms a dwarf, 
compact cluster of clear white flowers. Pkt. 
10 cts. 
Hardy Perennial (Iberis sempervi- 
rens). Pure white. Pkt. 10 cts. 
CANNA (Indian Shot) 
Crozy’s New Hybrids. Seed saved from the finest varieties of recent introduction. They 
are dwarf in habit, and remarkable for size and brilliancy of their flowers. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Fine Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 
Dark-Leaved Varieties Mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts. 
Collection of 12 varieties. Pkt. 75 cts. 
Collection of 6 Dark-Leaved varieties. Pkt. 50 cts. 
CARNATION 
Sown under glass in early spring, or later in the open 
ground, the plants will flower second summer. For 
largest, richest flowers we recommend their culture in 
pots of rich soil. They are also garden favorites, 
and grown in this way flowers of good quality may be 
had in summer if given plenty of water, good soil and a 
mulch about their roots. With tall varieties staking and 
tying is also necessary. 
Choice Mixed. Saved from choicest double flow¬ 
ers; very select. 11/2 feet. Pkt. 50 cts. 
Fine Double German. From named flowers. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
Good Mixed. For border culture. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Early Dwarf Vienna. The best garden sort, pro¬ 
ducing a large per cent, of double, sweet-scented flow¬ 
ers of a great variety of colors. With light protection 
will withstand our winters and bloom early. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Perpetual, or Tree. Saved from finest double 
flowers. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Picotee. Edges of petals bordered with various 
colors. Choice mixed. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Double Grenadin. A splendid variety for florists; 
very early, charming, brilliant scarlet flowers. Exceed¬ 
ingly valuable for making bouquets. Pkt. 15 cts. 
Collection of 12 beautiful varieties, $1.00. 
CENTAUREA 
Centaurea represents the best that has been pro¬ 
duced in these beautiful summer-blooming plants. 
The bushes are about four feet high, and are cov¬ 
ered with large beautiful flowers of the form and 
fragrance of Centau rea Margaret. The flowers will 
keep for over a week in waive, if cut just when they 
are about to open. It is of easiest culture. 
Americana. Strong, robust growth, about 3 
feet in height; flowers lilac-purple. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Cyarros (Cornflower, Bachelor’s Button, Bagged 
Sailor and Bluet) — 
Emperor William. Dark blue. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Rose. Pkt. 5 cts. 
White. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Double. Large double flowers of exquisite 
shades of color. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Cyanus Victoria. A miniature Cornflower, 
growing only 8 inches high; fine for pots and 
edgings. Mixed colors. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Margueritse. Superb new variety, with large, 
snow-white, sweet-scented flowers ; excellent for 
cutting. Pkt. 10 cts. 
MARGUERITE CENTAUREA 
An extra-vigorous race especially adapted for outdoor culture. They are very neat in habit, and remarkable for their rich .profusion of flow¬ 
ers, produced in five months from sowing. For masses of bloom few plants are finer; and for pots, 
also, their neat habit makes them very suitable. Grown as annuals, from seed sown every spring, 
they are most satisfactory. Pkt. 10 cts. 
CENTAUREA. White-Leaved Varieties 
Gymnocarpa. Silver-gray foliage; drooping habit, very graceful. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. $1.00. 
Candid issim a. Fine ornamental plant of great beauty; silvery white, deeply cut foliage. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Clementei. Foliage white, deeply cut, and altogether very beautiful. Pkt. 10 cts. 
CASTILLEIA INDIVISA 
A very ornamental plant, with brilliant deep scarlet, bracts. It presents a magnificent appearance, 
and is one of the most effective of half-hardy annuals. Pkt. 25 cts. 
CELOSIA 
Very singular, ornamental and showy plants, producing magnificent spikes of feathery looking flow¬ 
ers. They succeed well in the. garden and make very at tractive pot-plants. 
Argentea. Long spikes of silvery white, shaded with flesh color; splendid. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Aurea pyramidal is. Bright golden spikes in pyramidal form ; exceedingly beautiful. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Crimson-Feathered. Crimson spikes; beautiful. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Pyramidalis plumosa. Beautiful long plumes, pyramidal in form : of red, yellow, violet. Pkt. lOcts. 
Huttoni. Bushy habit, pyramidal form, profusely branched, each branch being tipped with a small 
spike of bright crimson flowers. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Thompson i Magniflca. Similar to the preceding in all respects except color, which varies in the 
most magnificent shades. Pkt. 15 cts. 
Carnation 
