ELLIOTT’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1894 
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New Hibiscus “Crimson Eye.” 
We take great pleasure in offering this superior 
strain of Hibiscus and can highly recommend it to 
all. Following is the originator’s description. 
“After many years of careful selection we have it 
entirely distinct, always coming true from seed. It is 
a robust grower with dark red stems- and foliage. 
The flowers are immense in size, often measuring 
twenty inc/ies in circumference. The color is of the 
purest white with a large spot of deep velvety crimson 
in the center of each flower. It is a striking combina¬ 
tion of color and one that must be seen to be fully 
appreciated. A well developed plant will produce 
several hundred of these flowers in a season. It will 
succeed anywhere and is perfectly hardy, blooming 
the first year from seed sown in the open ground.” 
Price per packet, 15 cents; 2 packets for 25 cents. 
NEW DOUBLE POPPY. 
“AMERICAN FLAG.” 
“ The plant is a remarkably strong grower, well 
branched, flowers extra large, very double, snow- 
white, with each petal bordered with scarlet; the 
foliage is a beautiful bluish green which combination 
of colors suggested the name. The terminal point 
has a wider band than the sides making it extremely 
showy, distinct from all others.’* 
Price per packet, 10 cents ; 3 packets for 25 cents. 
NEW EARLY FLOWERING BRANCHING TUBEROSE 
“ALBINO.” 
The distinctive features of this splendid novelty are such as to make it most popular. The petals recurve gracefully which add 
greatly to the size of the individual flower. The flower spike is very large and evenly filled; flowers 30 days earlier’than the old 
va S e ^* thro 'Y m g from two to five flower stems from a single bulb, and these again, are often branched, but its great merit above 
all other tuberoses is that it is entirely free from the brown tint common to the old sort on the back of the petals, the tube and ex¬ 
panded sepals being of the purest waxy white, making it one of the most valuable plants for cut flowers. This characteristic is so 
distinct that when first seen, being single, it might be said to resemble a Stephanotis, or some species of Jessamine as much as a 
i, u ^ erose in s PP earance anc * fragrance, for the odor is less heavy than that of an ordinary tuberose. Price 10 cents each ; 
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A VALUABLE CLIMBER. 
WILD CUCUMBER VINE. 
This is the quickest climber for Arbors , Trillises. Fences , etc. 
known. It will grow thirty feet in one season, has dense, grace¬ 
ful foliage, which is thickly dotted with pretty white, fragrant 
flowers. These in turn are followed by an abundance of small 
ornamental and prickly seed pods. It never suffers from heat, 
but retains its fresh and lively green color, and what is of prime 
importance, holding forth through the whole summer, whether 
hot or cold, wet or dry, never infested with insects and very 
profuse in bloom. The seeds being exceedingly hard should be soaked in water for at least 
twenty four hours before planting. Once planted this vine seeds itself and comes up every 
year. Price per packet, 10 cents. 
JAPANESE VARIEGATED HOP. 
(HUMULUS JAPONICUS.) 
This Japanese Variegated Hop at a little distance looks like a mass of small white flowers, 
spotted in amongst the green. It is an annual, very rapid grower, useful and ornamental. The 
leaves are beautifully and distinctly marked with silvery white, yellowish green, and dark green, 
partly regularly striped, as well as marked and blotched. In many cases the leaves are almost 
white and no green-leafed branches appear. This is not to be confounded with Humulus Japonica. 
The plant is very vigorous and will rapidly cover porches, fences, summer houses and i ustic 
arches and gateways. Price per packet, 25 cents. 
BEGONIA—VERNON. 
This most remarkable new variety, coming absolutely true from seed, is of unusual value 
for bedding, as it will stand our hot summer sun. From seeds sown in February it comes into 
flower in June and continues to make a most striking effect in beds or borders throughout the 
entire summer. By reason of its brilliant flowers, admirably set off with the handsome foliage, 
it is truly a most magnificent variety, the flowers being of an intensely brilliant deep red color 
the foliage is very abundant, stiff, and glossy and of a fine green color, spotted and margined 
with bronze purple; its bright foliage and brilliant flowers are equally as beautiful in the shade as in the sun. It thrives every¬ 
where, and is so easily raised from seed that it will surely rank as a Novelty of unusual hnportance. J 
Price per packet, 15 cents ; 2 packets for 25 cents. 
