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WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK. 
STEVIA. 
A useful plant for po or border culture; very free flowering. 
Extensively used by florists for cut flowers. Very easily 
grown, requiring a light, rich soil. Tender perennials. 
Purpurea. Purple, very fine.Pkt. 10 
Serrata. White, fine for bouquets.10 
SUNFLOWER. 
(HELIANTHUS.) 
A genus of well-known, tall-growing plants, with large, bril¬ 
liant yellow flowers. They are very effective in proper 
situations, in large shrubbery borders, or as screens. 
Tall Double Californa. Orange, 5 ft. Per oz. 25 cts. 
Pkt. 5 
Mammoth Russian. Very large, single. Per oz., 10 cts. 5 
Globe-Shaped Double. Saffron. Finest of all. 6 ft. 
Per oz., 30 cts. 5 
Variegated Foliage. Very ornamental; 4 ft. 5 
Oscar Wilde. Single, with small flowers, very handsome; 
8 ft. Per oz., 30 cts.5 
Cucumerifolius. Habit very branching, growing about 
3 foot high and blooming profusely throughout the 
season; flowers 2 inches in diameter, orange-yellow 
with black center.10 
Primrose Color. Branching habit blooming profusely 
until killed by frost. Flowers delicate sulphur yellow 
with black center. Very attractive.10 
SWEET SULTAN. 
(CENTAUREA MOSCHATA.) 
Sweet-scented, profuse flowering plants, very effective in 
mixed or shrubbery borders; the flowers emit a delicate 
honey perfume, and are much prized for bouquets; grow 
freely in rich soil; hardy annuals. 
Purple. 1% ft.Pkt. 5 
White. 1% ft. 5 
Suaveolens. Beautiful yellow. iy 9 ft. 5 
Mixed Colors. 5 
TACSONIA. 
A beautiful climber for house or conservatory ; flowers 
abundantly and nearly the whole season; cfosely allied to 
the Passion flower. They require a fine rich loam, plenty of 
light and moisture; half-hardy perennial. 
Ignea. Scarlet; 10 ft.Pkt. 25 
Von Volxemi. Large flowered; bright scarlet. 25 
TAGETES. 
Beautiful and delicate fcriv-leaf plants, forming compact bushes 
covered with neat, bright colored blossoms; half-hardy 
annuals. 
Pumila. Brown and yellow; very compact grower; 
1 ft.Pkt. 10 
Golden Ring. New; color rich orange; an abundant 
bloomer.10 
THUNBERGIA. 
Extremely ornamental climbers, much admired, very free 
bloomers. Sow in strong hot-bed in April after moistening 
the seed; pot first in the sandy loam and peat, afterwards 
use a good portion of poor lime-rubbish. In flower July to 
to October; half-hardy annuals; 4 ft. 
Alata. Yellow or buff, with dark eye.Pkt. 5 
Aurantiaca. Bright orange, with dark eye. 5 
Bakerii. Pure white. 5 
Sulphurea. Sulphur yellow, dark eye. 5 
Freyerii. Buff. 5 
Finest Mixed. Per oz., 40 cts. 5 
Greenhouse Varieties. 
Fragrans. White.Pkt. 25 
Harrisii. Blue.25 
TYDJEA. 
A beautiful class of dwarf free flowering greenhouse plants, 
producing a great variety of magnificent colors. Its dwarf 
habit renders it very valuable for florists, being equally as 
pretty as Gloxinias, blooming at the same time if sown early. 
Choice Mixed. Greenhouse perennial.Pkt. 50 
TORENIA. 
Sown Februaiy to April in pots, and kept under , glass, it will 
thrive equally well if planted out in the summer months in 
the open ground; half-hardy annual. 
Fournieri. Sky-blue flowers, with three spots of a dark 
indigo-blue, and a bright yellow stain in the center. Pkt. 25 
Baillonii. A very pretty and distinct species, bearing 
bright yellow flowers, with purplish-brown tube ... 25 
“ White Wings.” Unusually attractive, being pure white 
with flush of rose at the throat.25 
TRITOMA. 
Interesting and showy plants, with flower stalk 3 feet high, 
covered for about a foot with bright orange-scarlet flowers. 
Very effective if planted in clumps or among shrubbery; rich 
soil. Ha v lf-hardy perennial. 
Uvaria Grandiflora. (Bed Hot Poker.).Pkt. 10 
Saundersi. New magnificent species.25 
VIRGINIAN STOCK. 
Charming dwarf free-flowering plants, extremely effective in 
small beds, baskets or as edgings. Annuals. 
Mixed. Bed and white. . . 5 
W AH LENBERGI A. 
(PLATYCODON.) 
A very interesting family of hardy, perennial plants, with 
Campanula-like flowers of white and blue, which are exceed¬ 
ingly beautiful. Sow under glass, or in the house, in April, 
and transplant to open ground in May. 
Grandiflora. Beep blue, 4 ft .Pkt. 10 
Alba. Pure white, 4 ft.10 
Nana. New dwarf, dark blue, 1 ft.10 
