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ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
SPECIAL OFFER OF IMPROVED 
ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS 
I want every one who receives this price-list to try these improved 
English Delphiniums, and to that end offer them at extremely low 
prices. I guarantee that they will give unqualified satisfaction in 
every instance and will be a revelation of beauty to most people. 
Per doz. 100 
Fine Mixed English, grown from seed of Kelway’s 
famous named sorts.. . $1 50 S10 00 
English, in separate colors, grown from Kelway’s 
newest named sorts.. 2 00 13 00 
Selected Varieties, selected from thousands of sced- 
lings grown from Kelway’s choicest named sorts ... 3 00 20 00 
Extra Selected Varieties .each, 50 cts.. . 5 00 
White Varieties. Not recommended . . . .each, $1. . 
Delphinium formosum 
In the perennial Delphiniums, or Larkspurs, we have one of the 
most beautiful and useful families in hardy plants. The old Del¬ 
phinium formosum is one of the few hardy plants which has been 
pretty generally offered by the plant trade, yet is comparatively 
unknown, although few things ran be planted that will give more 
satisfaction, whether the object is decorative effect in the garden 
or flowers for cutting for the house. Messers J. II. Small & Sons, the 
leading florists of New York and Washington, have made quite a hit 
with it as a novelty in cut-flowers. The flowers are intense deep blue, 
perhaps the most brilliant blue to be found in flowers freely produced 
in long spikes. It blooms in June and July and continues for a long 
time in bloom, and if the plants are cut back after flowering will 
bloom a second time in the fall. Plants grow to 4 or 5 feet high, 
and if planted in masses about 2 feet apart will produce a splendid 
effect. 15 cts. each, SI .25 per doz., 88 per 100. 
Specimen plant of Improved English Delphiniums 
great spikes of exquisite light blue bloom, the loveliest shade of blue 
garden, but could never get enough stock of it to offer. This season 
able price. 20 cts. each, 82 per doz., 812 per 100. 
Delphinium formosum coelestinum 
This rare and scarce Delphinium has all the good qualities of the 
well-known Formosum, but instead of dark blue flowers produces 
in the floral world. I have always treasured this Delphinuim in my 
I have secured a few thousand plants, which I can offer at a reason- 
Hardy Perennial Phloxes 
The beauty and usefulness of tliese grand border plants give to them a deservedly first place among hardy plants. For cutting, their 
large trusses go a long way in floral decoration. In color they range from pure white to the richest crimson and purple, and from soft rose 
and salmon to bright coral-red, all having a delicate fragrance. Perennial Phloxes succeed in almost any soil enriched with manure, but are 
much benefited by a mulching of decomposed manure in spring, and in hot weather an occasional soaking of water. If the first spikes of 
bloom arc removed as soon as over and the plant given a good soaking of water, they will produce a second supply of flowers, thus continuing 
the display until late in autumn. 1 hose later blooms art* often finer than the first. 
I he following list includes a selection made by us in France, Germany, Holland and England during the last summer, as well as all of 
the very best of the new and the old varieties. 
\\ e grow upwards of a hundred thousand Phloxes annually, and when these are in bloom they arc well worth coming to see. 
Field-grown plants, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., $10 per 100 
A. G. McKimmon. Early-flowering; purplish lilac; large truss. Eclaireur. Bright, purplish rose, light center; enormous flowers. 
Adonis. China-rose, large carmine eye. Forerunner. Early-flowering; white, suffused with rosy purple. 
♦Albion. Strong, vigorous grower; large panicles of pure white flow- Frau S. Buchner. Salmon-pink; large and fine. 
ers with faint red eye. 
Athis. Tall, salmon; the tallest-growing of all Phloxes. 
Astier Rheu. Deep purplish crimson. 
Beranger. Rosy white, suffused gray; very delicate shade; lovely. 
Boule de Feu. Bright rosy red, dark center. 
Bouquet Fleur. White, pink center. 
Champs-Elysees. Fine rich, purplish crimson. 
Charlotte Saison. White, red center; large panicles. 
♦Coquelicot. Orange-scarlet, center purple; magnificent color for bed 
ding. The most brilliant Phlox yet produced. Poor habit. 
Duqueslin. Deep rose, edged lilac. 
Independence. Fine vigorous dwarf white. 
Kossuth. Rose, center maroon. 
La Vague. Rosy pink, with red eye. 
Lady Musgrave. White, striped light magenta, early-flowering. 
Lothair. Crimson. 
*Le Mahdi. Steel-blue, very intense color. An award of merit for this 
variety, August, 1899. 
Le Siecle. Rose, white eye; distinct. 
Le Soleil. Lovely soft rose-pink, with white center; a charming 
color; extra fine; 2 feet high. 
Marquise de Breteuil. Bright pink, light center; fine; 1$ feet high. 
