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ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA- 
Special Offer of Gladioli 
Gladioli sent postpaid by mail for 10 cts. per doz. and 75 cts. per 100 in addition to prices quoted. Prices good until withdrawn. 
Delivery at any time from November until June 15 
For cutting, for the decoration of the house, or for any purpose for which cut-flowers are used during the summer and fall months, no 
flower can be grown so satisfactorily as the Gladiolus. The spikes of flowers are large, showy and very beautiful, and last a week in water 
after cutting. By planting at intervals from April 1 to June 15, they can be had in blossom from June 25 until frost. For cutting pur¬ 
poses they can be grown in the vegetable garden or any convenient place, and, as they can be planted very closely, a large quantity can be 
grown in a very small space. They are of the easiest culture, failure being practically impossible, and it can be safely estimated that the 
bulbs will increase at least 50 per cent every season. The bulbs can be wintered in any room or cellar that is free from frost. The bulbs 
offered below are strictly first-class, and are from the largest and best Gladiolus growers in the world. 
Per 100 1.000 
Seedling Gladioli. Superb quality; all colors.$2 00 $15 00 
Mixed Gladioli. Best quality; all colors. 1 75 14 00 
Red and Scarlet Gladioli. Splendid for massing in 
shrubberies and borders. 1 40 11 00 
Wh ite and Light Gladioli. A choice mixture made 
from all named Gladioli ; equal to what is generally 
sold at four times the price. 2 50 18 00 
White and Light Cladioli. 
Finest 
quality Doz. 
Per 100 
1,000 
made up from the choicest named varieties. .$0 75 
$4 50 
$40 00 
Pink Gladioli. Best quality.. 
2 00 
15 00 
Yellow and Orange Gladioli. 
. 00 
4 50 
40 00 
Striped and Variegated. 
New Gladioli Childsii. Best 
quality 
. 00 
mixed. 50 
4 00 
3 00 
30 00 
named varieties.... 
10 to 50 cts. each, $1 to 5 00 
XXX MIXTURE 
This is a specially fine mixture, made up of over 100 fine named varieties, and includes also a good percentage of Childsii Hybrids. 
Just the stock for those who want only the very best that can possibly be had. First size, $5 per 100, $25 per 1,000. 
Gardening Books and Papers 
i At last we are promised a gardening magazine in this country worthy of the name; and the splendid work done by its publishers, Double¬ 
day, Page & Co., in Country Life in America, gives assurance that the promise will be fulfilled. The name of the new magazine is Tho 
Carden Magazine, and the first number will be issued in January. It will cover every branch of gardening, ably edited and beautifully 
printed and illustrated, and promises in every way to be most helpful to the amateur gardener. It is a monthly, and the subscription price 
has been placed at the extremely low rate of $1 per year. We shall be glad to forward subscriptions for customers. 
It is hardly now necessary to call attention to that splendid magazine Country Life In America, published by Doubleday, Page & Co., 
of New York. This is hardly a gardening magazine, but considerable space is devoted to gardening matters and it 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 $2 a year, it is 
printed on coated paper, most superbly illustrated, and in every way worth what the publishers charge. 
The best book on gardening ever published, and worth more than all other books on gardening and landscape-gardening, is Win. Robin¬ 
son’s The English Flower Garden, 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, condemns 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 bulb of value used in ornamental 
gardening. It is profusely illustrated by the best English artists with pictures made in hundreds of English gardens. The price is $6. 
It may be ordered from any bookseller, or I will forward it on receipt of the price. 
A delightful book recently published in England is Wood and Garden, by Miss Jekyll. The book hasn’t much to say about culture, 
but is full of good suggestions for arrangement, and the illustrations, ..om photographs made by the author, are a delight, and should do 
much toward the banishment of ugly and inartistic gardens. 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 fasci¬ 
nating 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 Gardens A friend complains that he finds no good lily illustrations. Well, he will find them 
here, and the best and most exhaustive work on lilies yet written. 
Title Illustration from “Country Life in America” 
