WM. ELLIOTT & SONS’ GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1891. 
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CLIANTHUS. 
(AUSTRALIAN GLORY PEA.) 
One of the most beautiful plants in cultivation, about 
3 feet in height, with neat compound leaves, and 
drooping clusters of large, rich scarlet, long-petaled, 
pea-shaped flowers, 3 inches in length, something 
similar to the splendid blossoms of the Coral Tree, 
each flower being picturesquely marked with a large, 
black, cloud-like blotch in front. To grow this 
splendid plant successfully in the open air, it should 
have a dry, sunny exposure, and should never be 
watered. Magnificent flowering shrub. 
Per Pkt. 
Clianthus Dampierii. Scarlet and black .25 
COB/EA. 
A fine rapid-growing climber, producing large purple 
bell-shaped flowers, and growing best in a warm, 
sunny situation. In sowing, the seed should always 
be placed edgewise. 
Cobaea Scandens. Purple, annual, 20 ft., per oz., 
$1 50.10 
COLL1NSI A. 
An exceedingly pretty, free flowering hardy annual, 
remarkably attractive in beds, mixed borders, or 
ribbons. 
Collinsia. Finest mixed varieties, 1 ft .5 
CINERARIA. 
A favorite greenhouse plant, with great variety of beau¬ 
tiful colors, blooming through the winter and spring 
months. Seed should be sown in September or Octo¬ 
ber; when large enough, potted in an equal mixture 
of loam, leaf-mold, and sand, and in February re¬ 
potted in a stronger soil. 
Cineraria. (Wiliams’ Extra Choice Strain.) Imported; 
produces extremely fine flowers of diverse colors 
and magnificent form.75 
-- Hybrida Grandiflora Kermesina. New, intense 
glowing velvety dark crimson, double petals.. . .50 
- Hybrida. Fine mixed varieties, striking colors, 
H ft . ..25 
- Extra. From magnificent large-flowered 
varieties, li ft. . ; . .50 
--- Double-flowering. A great acquisition. The 
flowers are perfectly double, comprising all 
shades of color peculiar to the Cineraria.50 
- Maritima Candidissima. Extremely handsome, 
silvery-white foliage; very ornamental as a dec¬ 
orative pot plant, or for bedding purposes.10 
COCKSCOMB. 
(CELOSIA CRISTATA.) 
Highly ornamental plants, producing crested heads of 
flowers, somewhat resembling a cockscomb. To pro¬ 
duce fine combs, the soil cannot be too rich, and the 
plants should be forwarded in hot bed, though showy 
plants may be raised from seed planted in open 
ground in May. The oftener they are transplanted or 
shifted, the larger and more beautiful they grow. 
Cockscomb, Dwarf Mixed.10 
- Glasgow Prize. An improved variety, producing 
large blooms of dark crimson ... . 10 
- Empress. This new variety produces combs of 
colossal proportions; flowers have been grown 
measuring 45 inches from tip to tip; rich vel¬ 
vety crimson.25 
- Japanese. (Celosia Japonica.) A branching var¬ 
iety of great beauty .10 
- Collection of six separate sorts .50 
COWSLIP. 
A well-known, free-flowering, hardy perennial, flower¬ 
ing profusely during early spring. 
Cowslip. (Primula Veris.) Fine English mixed, 9 
inches. 5 
CONVOLVULUS. 
A beautiful class of trailing annuals, some of which 
produce flowers of wondrous beauty. Useful for ver¬ 
andas, lattice, etc., growing freely' in any good gar¬ 
den soil. 
Per Pkt. 
Convolvulus Minor Tricolor. Rich, violet-purple with 
white center; trailer. Hardy annual, 1 ft.5 
- Mauritanicus. Hardy trailing plant, about 1 ft. 
high, produces an abundance of rich,satiny, lav¬ 
ender blossoms, fine for baskets, etc.10 
- Major. (See Morning Glory.) 
COSMOS HYBRIDUS. 
Makes very large plants, growing 5 to 7 ft. high, which 
are beautiful masses of the most elegant foliage, un¬ 
til they begin to bloom in September, when each 
plant will have hundreds of large, showy blossoms. 
Both foliage and flowers are excellent for cutting. 
Sow seed early' in spring and transplant to the gar¬ 
den in June. 
Cosmos Hybridus. Mixed colors.10 
CYCLAMEN. 
One of the handsomest greenhouse or parlor plants. 
The seed should be sown in spring, and by autumn 
will produce a bulb, which if potted and placed in 
conservatory or greenhouse, will blossom the follow¬ 
ing spring. Propagated only from seed. 
Cyclamen Persicum, Giganteum Album (Williams). 
Flowers pure white, good substance.50 
- - - Rubrum (Williams). Delicate rose, 
changing to bright crimson at the base.50 
- Sanguineum. Deepest shade of blood- 
red imaginable.50 
- Giganteum. A very large and greatly im¬ 
proved variety; the flowers measure 2 to 2J 
inches in length, and are of fine form, with very 
broad, massive petals.50 
— Giganteum Compactum. A very profuse 
bloomer; the petals are very large and of great 
substance, pure white with a deep purplish base.75 
- Albert Victor (Williams). Very distinct and 
effective; flowers of an intense brilliant crimson 
carmine hue .50 
- Crimson King (Williams). Beautiful new 
variety; a brilliant crimson, deepening at the 
base to dark red.50 
- White and Pink, with beautiful variegated 
foliage. 25 
- Williams’ Superb Strain. In original pack¬ 
ets. Mixed.50 
