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ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
HARDY PLANTS 
(Herbaceous Perennials) 
Until hardy plants come into general use we cannot hope foi 
artistic, interesting and beautiful gardens in this country. People of 
taste and culture are realizing the ugliness of the stereotyped bedding with lines 
of color, and will no longer allow their lawns to be daubed with a flower garden 
like a colored lithograph, although many of our public parks are still guilty of this 
atrocious work. With the material offered in this list the most beautiful and 
interesting gardens are to be made, gardens that increase in interest and beautj 
year after year; gardens that change their aspect with every change of season. To 
make a garden with hardy plants and shrubs requires far more taste and knowledge 
than it does to make one with the few varieties of bedding plants generally used, but the 
majority of gardeners do not have this knowledge, and have no idea of proper arrangement. 
But the garden of hardy plants has this advantage: the individual beauty of the plants 
themselves is so great that a garden cannot fail to be interesting and lovely, no matter how 
badly arranged, if the cultural skill is sufficient to bring them to perfection. People desirous 
of having really fine gardens will find William Robinson’s book, the "English Flower Gar¬ 
den,” most helpful. It is the best and most comprehensive book ever written on gardening 
Every plant and shrub worthy of consideration is described and cultural directions given; 
several chapters are devoted to the arrangement of gardens, and the book is profusely illus¬ 
trated with pictures made in the best 
gardens in England. This book is not 
generally on sale, but can be ordered 
through any bookseller. 
Hitherto it has been impossible to 
get satisfactory varieties and plants of 
perennials; 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 
polyanthus, or cowslip. (See page 31) plants specifiod for my landscape gar¬ 
dening work, as this class of plants is 
extremely difficult to import. The difficulty became so great, and my work 
so hampered by the lack of plants to carry it out, that I established a 
hardy plant nursery, which I have now transferred to the Elliott Nur¬ 
sery Company. It is the intention to make this nursery a model of its 
kind, and grow everything in hardy plants worthy of culture, and to send 
out nothing but well-grown plants packed in the most careful manner. 
SPECIAL OFFERS OF HARDY PLANTS IN VARIETY 
The plants in the following collections will he of the best and most desirable 
varieties and the plants of the best quality, bat in every instance the selection 
of varieties is to be made by us; but if purchasers will state the things they have, 
or don’t wish, these will not be included in the selection. Sometimes people write 
asking for a list of the plants contained in these collections. This can not be 
given, so please save us the unpleasantness of refusing by not asking for it. 
Offer No. 1 of Hardy Plants. Twenty-five first-class plants in variety for.$2 50 
Offer No. 2 of Hardy Plants. Fifty first-class plants in variety for. 4 00 
Offer No. 3 of Hardy Plants. One hundred first-class plants in varied assortment 
of best species and varieties for. 7 00 
Offer No. 4. Five hundred Hardy Plants, same as above, but in larger variety, for_30 00 
Offer No. 5. One thousand Hardy Plants, same as above, but in much larger variety, for55 00 
Japanese ANEMONE (See page 41.) 
