ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
TALI, ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS (From photograph) 
TALL ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS 
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Ihese Delphiniums may not be the most beautiful hardy plants, but they are among the most 
and satisfactory. They are stately and picturesque, some varieties growing eight feet high 
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beauty 
beauty, and often in quantity year after year, 
beautiful, and nothing can be more distinct 
In rich soil; they have imraense spikes of most beautiful (lowers of every imaginable shade of blue, and their season is a long one ; in fact 
they will bloom from spring till fall if properly treated. 
Hitherto it has been impossible to get satisfactory varieties and plants of English Delphiniums ; in fact, no nursery in this country 
has had a satisfactory general stock of hardy plants, and I have had the greatest difficulty in getting the plants specified for my landscape 
gardening work, as this class of plants is extremely difficult to import. The difficulty became so great and my work was so hampered by the 
lack of plants to carry it out that I persuaded one of the most capable horticulturists in this country to start a hardy-plant nursery and guar¬ 
anteed the nnaiicial results. It is the intention to make this nursery a model of its kind and grow everything in hardy plants worthy of cul 
turo and to send out nothing but well-grown plants packed in the most careful manner. The Delphiniums described on next page are one of 
the offerings of this nursery. K 6 
all proportion to the slight 
ided that in summer the 
loam, which suits them 
-trenching is better—add 
at intervals, tlio effect of the Delphinium is exceedingly fine. They look well in beds also, arranged at the same distance apart each*way. 
I hey are grand grown in masses of large groups of separate colors, and may be associated with shrubs with great advantage, succeeding by 
their robustness well in shrubberies. A succession of flowers may be expected from spring to early autumn, especially if the spikes which 
have done flowering early be.cut down to the ground; fresh growth will then be produced, which will give blossom. Copious watering in 
plants may be utilized to plant between and around Delphiniums. Coal ashes strewn over the crowmTwiU Vrotec^'the^hTn^from^ugs 
irou £ 'V? ( , r an . s P nn £* 'Y e hftve intimated, any garden soil suits the Delphiniums; it is, however, necessary to secure sorts such as 
are offered below, in order to obtain an effect superior to that afforded by the old smaller-flowered varieties. No amount of liberal treatment 
will cause the smaller-flowered kinds of a few years back to develop into the gorgeous hybrids of today. 
" Delphiniums were the first thing that attracted my attention, for they were just at their best and there was just about one acre of 
ttiein. they made such a sight as I shall not soon forget, so vast was the quantity in bloom, so grand the spikes, and so rich and varied the 
different shades of blue. Although I have been a grower of these lovely hardy border plants for some twenty years, I was not prepared to 
see so much improvement in color, and was much struck with the intensity of the shade in many varieties as compared with the old Bella 
donna. the varieties which have a shade of bronze in the center are also very fine, the contrast between the bronze center and the deep blue 
extenor lieing very striking. But the shades of color in many of the newer sorts almost baffle description, and 1 shall not attempt it. It is in 
the doubles and semi-doubles that the greatest advancement has been made, and many of them are truly lovelv. They are much larger and 
more compact than the old doubles of the Uanunculoides type, and consequently are much more valuable for ordinary garden adornment. The 
