WM. ELLIOTT & SONS’ GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1896 
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CENTAUREA. 
An exceedingly interesting genus of plants, embracing 
annuals, biennials and perennial. Some of the varieties 
are magnificent foliage plants, while others are noted 
for their beautiful flowers. All the kinds named below, 
are worthy of cultivation. 
Per Pkt. 
Cent an re a Gymnocarpa. Silvery-gray foliage ; drooping 
habit, very graceful. Per oz., $1.00.10 
- Candidissima. Fine ornamental plant of great 
beauty. Silvery-white, deeply cut foliage.15 
- Clementei. Foliage white, deeply cut and altogether 
very beautiful.10 
- Americana. Hardy annual, 2 ft. in height, and of 
strong, robust growth; flowers deep red; very pretty.. 5 
- Cyan us. A favorite, very free blooming hardy an¬ 
nual, suited to almost any situation; known as 
Bachelor’s Button, Corn Flower, Ragged Sailor and 
Blue Bottle. Blue, 5 cts.; White, 5 cts.; Rose, 5 cts.; 
Mixed Colors. 5 
Centaurea Cyanus, fl. pi. (Double flowered Cornflower.) 
Highly recommended for its exquisite shades of color, 
valuable as an ornamental plant.15 
Marguerite. Flowers pure and white and exquisitely 
fragrant; valuable for cutflowers and decorative pur¬ 
poses . 10 
Moscliatus. (See Sweet Sultan). 5 
CERASTIUM. 
Dwarf-Crowing, white foliage plants, well adapted for 
edgings or for mixing with plants with dark foliage. 
Cerastium Biebersteinii. Silvery foliage, ft .10 
CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
The annual varieties are exceedingly pretty, but are not so 
well known or cultivated as they deserve. They are 
bright, cheerful and free bloomers, easy and rapid in 
growth, and merit a prominent place in every annual 
garden; they are also good for ordinary bouquet cut¬ 
ting. All the annual Chrysanthemums make beautiful 
pot plains if sown in cold frames, and pricked off 
singly into 6-incli pots. They are perfectly hardy. 
Chrysanthemum Segetiun Grandiflorum. The golden 
Marguerite, large bright yellow flowers.10 
- Multicale. New dwarf bedding variety, 3 to 4 inches 
high, golden yellow flowers.15 
Per Pkt. 
- Lord Boaconsfteld. Crimson, maroon edged and 
striped gold, brown eye, ringed yellow. 10 
- The Sultan. Crimson, maroon center, a wide gold 
ring. 10 
- >Y. E. Gladstone. A pure, brilliant, rich crimson... 10 
- Tricolor. White, with yellow band, very pretty, 1 
ft. 5 
- Bnrridge&nnm. White center, critnsom band, beauti¬ 
ful, 1 ft . 5 
- Carina turn Eclipse. Pure golden with a bright purp¬ 
lish scarlet ring and dark brown disc, very striking 10 
- Yenustum. Crimson center, white band, hand¬ 
some. 5 
- Mixed Single Annual Varieties. Peroz., 50 cts_5 
- Coronarium, Double Yellow. Handsome border 
plant, 2 ft. 5 
-Double White. Very showy, 2 ft. 5 
- Mixed Double Annual Varieties. Peroz., 50 cts... 5 
THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES ARE FOR POT CULTURE 
IN THE HOUSE, AND FOR FLORISTS, BOUQUETS : 
- Indicum, fl. pi. Half-hardy perennial; very double, 
mixed colors.25 
- Japonicum, 11. pi. (New Japanese variety.) Flow¬ 
ers of peculiar form and much beauty, combining 
numerous shades of color. Very interesting. Half- 
hardy perennial.25 
- In odor uni Plenissimnm. Dwarf growing, double 
white variety, very free flowering and beautiful for 
pot culture.10 
- Frutescens Grandiflorum. (“ The Marguerite” or 
“Paris Daisy.”) Immense quantities are grown by 
French florists, and find a ready sale. It produces 
freely its white star-like flowers under the most un¬ 
favorable conditions.10 
- Choice Hybrids. Raised from the finest Japanese and 
Chinese sorts, and produce a choice assortment of 
rich and varied hues.50 
CHAM/EPEUCE. 
Ornamental Thistle, with variegated downy leaves and 
curious spines. 
Chamsepeuce Casabome. (Fish-bone Thistle.) Glossy dark 
green leaves and brown spines.10 
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. (Williams’ Extra Choice Strain.) Imported; 
produces extremely fine flowers of diverse colors and 
magnificent form .75 
- Hybrida Grandiflora Kermcsina. New. intense 
glowing velvety dark crimson, double petals.50 
- Hybrida. Fine mixed varieties, striking colors, 1J4 ft.25 
-Extra. From magnificent large-flowered varie¬ 
ties, 114 f t.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, sil¬ 
very-white foliage ; very ornamental as a decorative 
pot plant, or for bedding purposes. 10 
