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J. WILKINSON ELLIOTT, PITTSBURG, PA. 
MISCELLANEOUS BULBS 
CHIONODOXA Luclllpe (Glory of the Snow). 25 cts. per doz., 
$1.40 per 100, $10.50 per 1,000. 
CALANTHUS nivalis (Single Snowdrop). 15 cts. per doz., 95 cts. 
per 100, $7.75 per 1,000. 
IRIS Angtica (Mont Blanc). Pure white; large and fine. This is 
the variety grown so largely in England for cut-flowers. 65 cts. 
per doz., $4 per 100. 
I. Angllca, Fine Mixed. 25 cts. per doz., $1.50 per 100. 
I. Hispanlca (Spanish). 100 roots in 20 named varieties. $2 per 100. 
I. Hispanlca, Blanche Fleur. Pure white; the best white Spanish 
Iris. 25 cts. per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
I. Hispanlca, William I. The best yellow, and the variety so largely 
grown for Covent Garden Market in London. 25 cts. per doz., 
$1.25 per 100. 
I. Hispanlca, Count of Nassau. The finest dark blue. 25 cts. 
per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
I. Hispanlca. Louise. Beautiful shade of light blue. 25c. per doz., 
$1.25 per 100, $9 per 1,000. 
I. Hispanlca, Fine Mixed. 15 cts. per doz., 55 cts. per 100. 
MILLA Unlflora. This charming spring-flowering bulb is almost 
unknown in this country, but I know of nothing lovelier. I first 
saw it in the garden of the late Mr. Chas. A. Dana, "Dosoris,” 
Long Island, and was delighted with it, as 1 am sure every one 
will be that tries it. It likes a rather moist soil and should be 
planted where it can remain permanently. It can also be bloomed 
in the house with the same treatment as hyacinths. For this pur¬ 
pose several bulbs should be planted in a 6- or 7-inch pot. 
Charming white, star-like flowers with beautiful foliage, which 
covers the ground like a carpet. One of the choicest hardy bulbs, 
and should be used in every garden. 20c. per doz., 75c. per 100. 
M. Unlflora violacea. Same as above, with violet flowers. 25 cts. 
per doz., $1 per 100. 
SCILLA Siblrica. Finest sky blue. Scilla Sibirica is one of the 
loveliest spring flowers. It has a color almost as deep as the sky 
itself. It is quite hardy, and flowers outdoors at the same time 
as the snowdrop, in front of which it has a charming effect. It 
is fine for planting in the grass. If planted in pots and kept in¬ 
doors it. may be had in bloom as early as Christmas. Us magnifi¬ 
cent bright,’blue color makes it suitable for any decoration what¬ 
ever. 20 cts. per doz., $1.40 per 100, $10.50 per 1,000. 
Gardening Books and Papers. 
I am sorry to say it, but there is at present no gardening paper published in America worthy of consideration. For a few years we 
had an excellent paper, well suited to the needs of our country. Its editor was able and enthusiastic, and had the business management 
been as intelligent as the editorial the success of the paper would have been unqualified; but the editor was allowed to resign and the paper 
dropped into the uninteresting rut occupied by its contemporaries. This is preliminary to recommending the English paper, The Carden, 
which is beyond question the best gardening paper published in the world. It is a weekly, well edited, well printed, and freely illustrated 
with pictures made in the best gardens in England. Each number also contains a fine colored plate of flowers of some fine tree, shrub, plant 
or bulb, so that it is really a cheap paper at $L5l) per year. I will be glad to forward subscriptions to the London ofiice for my customers. 
Since the above was written a new magazine entitled Country Life in America has been published by Doubleday, Page & Co., of 
New York, and edited by that high authority, Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University. This is hardly a gardening magazine, but consider- 
ablo space is devoted to gardening matters and is altogether the most beautiful and interesting magazine that I find on my library table. 
This magazine has been run on a liberal scale, the publishers believing that there is ample field for a magazine appealing to the better class 
of country-lovers. I am glad to say that their experience has borne out this hope, and the magazine has prospered so that it now has a 
regular circulation of above 50,000 copies. Its continuation on its present scale should be a satisfaction to every country-lover and every 
person connected with the country. The price is $3.00 a year, it is printed on coated paper, most superbly illustrated, and in every way 
worth what the publishers charge. An English paper that gives me a great deal of pleasure is Country Life. It is a 32-page weekly, ex¬ 
clusive of advertisements, and is beautifully printed and illustrated. It treats of all pursuits and sports of country life, but is especially 
interesting on account of its illustrated descriptions of English country places, one of which it publishes each week, showing house, gardens 
and lawns. M.v attention was called to this paper recently by one of my clients, and 1 was so well pleased with it that I bought all the back 
numbers as well as subscribing. The price for American subscriptions is $10.00 per year. 1 will forward subscriptions if desired. 
The best book on gardening ever published, and worth more than all other books on gardening and landscape gardening, is Wm. 
Robinson’s The English Flower Carden, now in its eighth edition. Whatever success I have made as a landscape gardener I owe to the 
inspiration of this book. It not only teaches good gardening, but, what is quite as important, condems bad, giving reasons that are con¬ 
vincing for both. This book has done more to improve the gardening in England than all other influences combined, and I wish it were 
in my power to secure its reading by all thoughtful, intelligent people in this country. The book is very comprehensive, treating of the 
arrangement of various styles of gardens, and contains descriptions of almost every tree, shrub, plant and hull) of value used in orna¬ 
mental gardening. It is profusely illustrated by the best English artists with pictures made in hundreds of English gardens. The price is 
$0.00. It may 1 m* ordered from any bookseller, or I will forward it on receipt of the price. 
A delightful book recently published in England is Wood and Carden, by Miss Jekyll. The book hasn’t much to say about culture, 
but is full of good suggestions for arrangement, and the illustrations, from photographs made by the author, are a delight, and should 
do much toward the banishment of ugly and inartistic gifVdens. It is charmingly written by an enthusiastic amateur, and should be 
read and owned by every lover of a good garden as well as by those who know nothing of the pleasures of a garden. The book can be 
obtained through any bookseller. A later book written by Miss Jekyll, Wall and Water Cardens, tells most interestingly of two of the most 
fascinating phases of gardening. The pictures are superb and should do much to improve the gardens of England and America. Still 
another book by Miss Jekyll is Lilies for English Cardens. A friend complains that lie finds no good lily illustrations. Well he will find 
them here and the best and most exhaustive work on lilies yet written. 
