WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
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Choice Flower Seeds 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy) 
Hardy annuals of easiest cultivation, excellent for borders or in masses. Finely cut 
foliage. Flowers, large and showy, produced freely all summer. 
Californica. Bright yellow, rich orange center. 1 foot. Fkt. 5 cts. 
Mandarin. A very beautiful variety. The outside of the petals is brilliant scarlet, 
inside rich orange. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Crocea ti. pi. A double-flowering variety; flowers bright orange-scarlet, shading 
off to salmon-red. An abundant bloomer. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Rose Cardinal. A charming sort, producing very freely large flowers of intense 
carmine. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Erythrina Crista- 
Galli 
(Coral Plant) 
Splendid shrub for green¬ 
house or sub-tropical gardens, 
bearing large racemes of bril¬ 
liant scarlet flowers, Pkt. 
25 cts. 
Delphinium 
DODECATHEON CLEVELA.NDI (Giant American Cowslip) 
A beautiful perennial from California, producing flower stems a foot high, surmounted 
with about ten large cyclamen-like blossoms. Color rose, purple and yellow. It is quite 
hardy and luxuriates in a partially shaded situation. Pkt. 10 cts. 
DOLICHOS LABLAB (Hyacinth Bean) 
A rapid-growing ornamental climber with dense foliage and clusters of handsome purple 
and white flowers. Purple. Pkt. 5 cts. White. Pkt. 5 cts. Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts. 
DRACAENA 
Ornamental greenhouse plants, with elegant foliage. Invaluable for decorative purposes. 
Indivisa. Green and bronze, narrow leaves. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Australis. Wide, green foliage. Pkt. 25 cts. 
ECHINOCYSTIS LOBATA (Wild Cucumber) 
One of the quickest growing vines in cultivation. Fine for covering fences, trellises, etc. 
Pkt 5cts ECHEVERIA 
Interesting greenhouse succulents, which are largely used for carpet bedding. 
Metallica. Large, orange-colored blossoms on spikes 12 to 15 inches high. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Secunda glauca. Small, compact-growing, glaucous variety, with free-flowering, 
scarlet and yellow racemes of bloom. Very tine. Pkt. 25 cts. 
ERICA CAPENSIS (Cape Heath) 
Charming evergreen shrubs, flowering very profusely. Finest mixed. Pkt. 15 cts. 
EUPATORIUM FRASERI 
Flowers are snowy-white, borne in clusters ; line for cutting. Hardy perennial. Pkt. 10 cts. 
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS (Blue Gum Tree) 
Besides being ornamental for subtropical gardening, it has a powerful influence in de¬ 
stroying the malarious agency which is supposed to cause fever in marshy districts. Pkt. 
10 c ' ts - FEVEKFEW. See Matricaria. 
FERNS 
The seed offered is saved from a large collection of very elegant and interesting green¬ 
house varieties. Graceful foliage plants. Finest mixed varieties. Pkt. 25 cts. 
DELPHINIUM (Perennial Larkspur) 
Showy and well-known hardy perennials producing splendid spikes 
of flowers throughout the summer. 
Brunoniamun (Musk-Scented Larkspur). New species of a pe¬ 
culiar shade of light blue, emitting a powerful odor of musk. Pkt. 
25 cts. 
Cash meriami in. Very fine, dark blue, Monk’s Hood-like flowers. 
1% feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Chinensis. Double mixed. 2 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Formosum. Rich blue and white. A favorite variety. 3 feet. 
Pkt. 5 cts. 
Le Mastadonte (Giant Bee Larkspur). Large dark blue flowers. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 
Nudieaule. Scarlet. 1^ feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Zalil ( Hardy yellow Larkspur). Lovely shade of sulphur-yellow. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 
For Annual varieties, see Larkspur, page 30. 
EUPHORBIA 
Variegata (Snow-on-the-Mountain). Attractive foliage, beauti¬ 
fully veined and margined with white. Pkt. 5 cts. 
Heterophylla (Annual Poinsettia, Mexican Fire Plant, or Fire-on- 
the-Mountain). An annual plant of branching habit, with glossy 
green leaves, which in summer become flared with dark flery scarlet, 
leaving only a small tip of green. Very striking and brilliant. 3 to 
4 feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Dodecatheon Cleveland! 
